I can tell you what recorded history says, I can tell you what the Bible says, but I think that's a dispute amongst theologians and I think it has nothing to do with the gross domestic product or economic growth of the United States.
"Australia had signed up to a commitment to actually having 0.7% of gross national income as a target by 2016.
This month, the Portuguese government agreed with the main opposition party on more austerity measures to cut its deficit faster than planned, to 4.6 percent of Portugal's gross domestic product next year from 9.4 percent last year.
According to the Council of Mortgage Lenders, gross mortgage lending in the first three months of this year totalled an estimated £45bn, which was 12% down on the last three months of 2014, and 3% down on the first quarter of 2014.
The budget underlined this plan, which means the amount of gross government debt outstanding will grow with the size of the economy, year in, year out, even when the government returns to surplus and the proceeds from asset sales flow to the government and bolster the headline cash budget balance.
US gross domestic product (GDP), the broadest measure of the general economy, contracted for the first time in three years in early 2014, shrinking at an annual rate of 1% during the first quarter, the Commerce Department said last month.
(Actually I'll be ok, whatever happens, as long as that hippy fairy from the UK doesn't steal this thing. That would be a gross miscarriage of justice).
In summer blockbuster season, the disparity can be even more pronounced: The Inbetweeners 2 opened at the top with a gross 72 times the 10th-placed film that weekend.
The International Monetary Fund estimate of a 5.5% decline in gross domestic product this year looks wildly optimistic given hyper-inflation and the devastation caused to the eastern half of the country.
"Yet all too often the world's poorest people – the majority of who are women – miss out of these opportunities," she said, noting Papua New Guinea had one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world despite having experienced more than 10 years of uninterrupted gross domestic product growth.
