However, conservation and an economic slowdown could slice into the amount of electricity Edison sells, which, under some circumstances, might make it harder to collect enough extra revenue to make the debt payments.
That could imply more jobs, rising productivity and, depending on how the larger economic pie is sliced, maybe even higher real incomes for working people.
The economic sanctions have sliced out an estimated $1 billion of North Korea's exports, estimated in 2016 at $2.9 billion.
In another finding from the Topos research, the public -- if forced to choose -- stated a preference for growing the economic pie to slicing the pie more fairly.
While Facebook may have good intentions in publicly advocating for an eradication of anonymity online as it will help make the web a nicer place, I believe the real reason is that the company has a rare opportunity to make much of our lives easier and save us time by helping accelerate traditional commerce and that they can capture a piece of the economic value of each slice.
These platforms encompass a growing slice of economic activity and are shifting the scope and efficiency of market and non-market exchanges.
Euro out of favour among central banks Updated at 3.59pm BST 3.12pm BST US factory orders Another slice of economic news.... US factory orders rose by 2.1% in May, month-on-month.
And, however you slice it, economic growth will require vibrant global trade.
The obvious answer, journalists say, is because Lebanese politicians are too busy trying to slice the economic pie to satisfy their greed and too resistant to attempts to uncover their misdeeds.
Cutting taxes is mostly an exercise in slicing the economic pie a different way, not making it bigger, with gains for a few offset by losses for many.
The revision to consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of economic activity in America, sliced more than a half percentage point off the G.D.P. growth rate.
