Most people say they are not sure about the cause of any slowdown.
"The main cause of the slowdown was a deterioration of service sector activity growth to the weakest since May of last year," he said.
One cause of the slowdown was a sudden drop in investment, as big projects, such as power plants and roads, got snarled up in bureaucracy (see chart 1).
Though state, city and union officials disagree about the cause of the slowdown, all agree that the money did not start flowing to schools until January, too late to produce change.
The Federal Reserve's deflation between 1997 and 2001 was a prime cause of our slowdown and of much of the economic turmoil around the world.
But it boils down to this: So, the government was right, and Ed Balls was wrong, both about the cause of the slowdown, and the best way to overcome it.
The proximate cause of the slowdown, according to the Post, was the murder of two New York police officers - Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu - by a gunman who had taken to social media earlier in the day to cite police abuses in New York and Ferguson, Missouri, as his motivation.
We will begin exploring the causes of the slowdown in Americans' income growth, a result of both the slowdown in economic growth and a rise in inequality.
Some causes of the slowdown originate far beyond Europe.
The causes of the slowdown are many, Mr. Fristoe said.
WHAT are some of the causes of the slowdown, according to the article?
