Yet few things seem less likely.In this section Marriages and mergers The ugly-bug ball By hook or by crook The Lo down Damage control Putters aflutter Seeing red The Beltway constraint ReprintsIn another talk, Emmanuel Farhi of Harvard University mooted an idea for boosting an economy in a "liquidity trap", in which the central bank has already slashed interest rates to zero and can cut no more.
This week there were two important developments on that front: The state of California officially launched a good but controversial program to help lower-income workers build individual retirement accounts, and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives abandoned their own, bad idea for boosting saving.
It is concerned about growing inequality and has ideas for boosting the savings rate.
Some of the best ideas for boosting job skills, for example, involve tailoring business-tax breaks more narrowly to fit the objective.
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This week Labour embraced some practical ideas for boosting the new registration process, including encouraging people to register to vote whenever they come into contact with a government service.
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Waukesha workers wondered, almost as one, whether Mr Obama's ideas for boosting the middle classes would change very much, even if they liked the sound of some of them.
Labour leaders would crow over any sign of adjustments to Plan A. Let them: Mr Balls's own ideas for boosting growth are populist and unconvincing, centred on such micro-wheezes as levies on bankers' bonuses and a temporary VAT cut to boost consumption.
Her preferred step-by-step approach has started with cost control; ideas for boosting coverage are promised in the coming weeks.Mrs Clinton offers a litany of well-known, but sensible, savings, such as shifting to electronic records, concentrating more on preventive medicine, improving the management of chronic diseases, and creating a "best practices institute" to set guidelines for optimal care.
Now Britain's coalition government is dusting off Thatcherite ideas for boosting left-behind areas with tax breaks: on March 5th George Osborne, the chancellor, announced the creation of ten "enterprise zones" that will get preferential tax treatment and simplified planning rules.In this section Bamboo capitalism Can Angela Merkel hold Europe together?
