Sentence examples for illusory growth from inspiring English sources

Relentless and largely illusory growth based on credit was unsustainable.

There will be no facing up to the reality that relentless – and largely illusory – growth, based on credit, is unsustainable.

China's banks are, in effect, bust: few of the vast loans they have made can ever be repaid, so they cannot now lend at the rate needed to sustain China's once super-high but illusory growth rates.

This is possibly due, in part, to measurement problems with current definitions of posttraumatic growth failing to distinguish between real growth and illusory growth.

It now turns out, however, that all of that growth was illusory.

Famous short-seller Jim Chanos continues to argue on Bloomberg TV and CNBC's Squawk Box that China's economic growth is illusory, a bubble ready to blow up a thousand times worse than Dubai's.

The failure by mainstream political parties to produce a new and persuasive economic narrative, which does not rely on sustaining impossible levels of growth and generating illusory jobs, provides a marvellous opening for demagogues everywhere.

A sort of timid evasion, gaming voters' fears as if a general lament for lost growth and an illusory promise that necessary cuts can be made not to hurt is all they need offer even in these most alarming of circumstances.

In other words, the acceleration in growth may be largely illusory.Other classic symptoms of overheating are also absent: bank lending and imports have slowed in recent years, and reports of surging wages due to labour shortages are misleading.

And the SEC says Dell consistently misrepresented how it has generated consistent growth numbers resulting in illusory stock values that made possible Michael Dell's astronomical stock option gains.

Growth in the 1990s was not illusory, they argue.