It recommended a reform package for China that included letting the renminbi rise at a brisker pace, allowing interest rates to rise, expanding social spending and allowing workers to move freely in search of better jobs.
Many in the market wondered if it would then signal a relatively brisk move to raise interest rates from near zero, where they have been since 2008.
Both growing consumer spending and expanding business investment appear to be feeding a brisk expansion despite rising interest rates and the surge in oil prices that pushed the average price of gasoline to nearly $2.40 a gallon this summer.
C1 Car Buyers Undeterred Every big domestic and foreign automaker said sales last month exceeded even last year's brisk pace, despite rising interest rates, stock volatility and higher gas prices.
Still, interest has been brisk, he said, and his company is in negotiations for about half the space.
On the other hand, when the central bank's purchases are too brisk, money growth increases and interest rates fall, thereby inducing domestic expansion and stimulating an increase in prices.
In fact, Paul Boris, head of manufacturing industries at GE Digital, who is running their smart glasses pilots says interest has been brisk with over 100 applications for pilots in his organization.
When Shafqat at Newscred got sponsored onto Angellist, his endless and soul-sucking European fundraising process turned into a 2 week whirlwind of investor interest and a brisk move to New York.
They do show that the real estate market, buoyed in part by low interest rates, is as brisk as ever.
Neil LaBute, who shares Mr. MacIvor's brisk, spare style and a professional interest in what goes bump in the night, might be his closest competition.
