Indeed, with other stimulus measures scant, the Fed's psychological guidance has become an important weapon in its arsenal.
But its public-debt stock is approaching 200% of GDP, so Japan has scant room for more fiscal stimulus.
And, if passed, many of the proposed stimulus measures may have scant short-term impact.Massive extra spending is increasingly unlikely.
In November, China rushed out its stimulus plan with no public scrutiny, scant details of the spending breakdown and none of the acrimonious debate that slowed action in the United States.
One of several limitations of this pilot experiment is the scant knowledge of what might constitute a suitable stimulus repertoire to test simple learning in immune cells.
One major reason why the recovery has been so slow is that, thanks in no small part to Obama's allegedly "failed stimulus policies," the recession officially ended a scant nine months after the 2008 crash.
On issues like the economic stimulus, the health care law, climate change and federal spending levels, there has been scant daylight between the speaker and Mr. McConnell, the Kentuckian who leads Senate Republicans.
But they offered no details, and presented only a scant outline of proposals they might pursue, some of which echo initiatives they failed to include in last year's stimulus bill.
Most interestingly, scant findings have also been described of an ERP P1 smaller amplitude to feature-relevant than to feature-irrelevant stimuli presented at a neglected location [ 33, 29], possibly lending an indicative timing to the aforementioned fMRI-indexed mechanisms of attentional suppression and facilitation for unattended and attended input, respectively [ 17].
