Legislation favored by the left, like new gun-safety measures, has started in the Senate and has often foundered before it reached the House.
Since 2013, the year-over-year growth rate of the money supply, broadly measured, has started to increase (see the chart below).
In other cases, the economic crisis and austerity measures may have started a long-term process of transformation due to the crisis denoting a context or a more 'endemic' condition in which people live (Vigh, 2008).
Unfortunately, many other countries do not have such stringent security measures – so fraudsters have started taking their fake cards overseas.
And the measures, Mr. Balarezo said, have started to take a toll.
That would be unwelcome to the prime minister, whose poll ratings have fallen steadily as economic austerity measures introduced in May have started to bite.
An economy that is driven by populist measures and subsidies, that have started to hurt growth and will only add to its troubles in the long run, or one that enhances the efficiency of doing business and encourages investment and innovation.
In the current era of reform, we have started measuring growth and proficiency.
For good measure, the Fed could have started some sort of super aggressive asset buying policy (maybe call it "quantitative easing" and spread three successive rounds out over several years) to take its balance sheet up from $870 billion to around $4.5 trillion.
