That means anything which is disturbing this fine network process should have a high impact".
"Investment" here means anything which drives up the country's productive capacity - educating the population, building up manufacturing and heavy industry, and above all constructing new cities, roads, railways, power plants, ports, and so on.
When I'm talking about consumer products, I don't mean anything for which a customer pays.
Seriously: They repeat these things again and again as if (A) they have actually read about them (which in most cases they have not, and (B) they mean anything at all (which they simply don't).
For instance, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, what if instead of a "carbon tax" or "cap and trade" (neither of which mean anything to most people), there were a "Green Dividend," in which all the tax revenues raised to combat global warming were mailed out per capita?
I think the only place where Asterix can't mean anything is the US, which is the only great empire left today, because they can only relate to the Romans and not the small village.
A "go to" bank, apparently, which could mean anything or nothing.
Another looks at how "fundamentals"—which can mean anything from unemployment to government-approval ratings—have shaped past elections.
But at the same time the possibility of failing, which could mean anything from cowardly hiding during a fight to just getting killed, made me less eager.
The second is a loss of services, which can mean anything from having to fix your own clogged pipes to losing heat in the winter.
