Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon has faulted a slowdown in technological progress that has eroded growth and depressed interest rates.
The strategy challenges the assumption that pollution is the natural cost of economic development and that reducing pollution necessarily erodes growth.
Rising housing wealth has offset a dismal period for living standards as, despite a strong economy, rising inflation, taxes and interest payments have eroded growth in real disposable incomes.
It has the potential to erode development gains, undermine economic growth and compound human security challenges.
As analysts at Coho Partners in Berwyn, Pa., recently noted, "secure and rising dividends (from stocks) are critical to growing and preserving income streams". Profit margins may erode, the growth rate of dividend payouts may slow into 2017, but dividends still will play a meaningful role in total return.
Higher interest rates can reduce the value of bond holdings and erode earnings growth if the demand for borrowing wanes.
The biggest concern plaguing investors is that an extended trade war could erode global growth just as the world's biggest economies are already starting to cool.
Analysts at the energy agency, which represents consumers, have warned OPEC not to cut its production more, as higher energy prices could erode economic growth.
More and more, users are turning to streaming services, and that's finally beginning to erode the growth of digital music sales online, meaning labels and providers of traditional storefronts need to do something if they hope to keep people away from less lucrative streaming sales models, which offer users access to all the music they want for around the price of a single album per month.
Is the Affordable Care Act eroding economic growth?
