When Fitch Ratings cut Spain's credit rating Friday by two levels, to AA- from AA+, it cited the "intensification" of the debt crisis along with slower growth and shaky regional finances, Bloomberg News reported.
But with unemployment stubbornly high, businesses bemoaning the fact that they face barriers to obtaining loans and economic growth looking shaky, voices are growing louder suggesting policymakers should find better ways of directing the cash.
To lesser degrees, Japan's shaky banks and continued slow growth in Europe present obstacles.
Now AOL's growth engine looks shaky: Subscriber growth has slowed, and revenue from online ads and commerce has plummeted 31% in a year.
Other drivers of spending growth are also "shaky," including the weaker job market, the fragile stock market and the recent surge in oil prices.
But given the latter's travails to make anonymish social networking stick without things getting too sticky content-wise, so to speak, the startup grabbing a swift exit from a hyped but shaky space to a solid growth market (online real estate) clearly ended up being a no brainer for Bakfy's three founders — whatever the deal's cash value.
Economic forecasts are shaky: 0.8 per cent global GDP growth this year and 1.6percentnextext, according to CEBR.
By the end of the 1990's, in other words, supply-side economics had become something of a laughingstock, and the whole case for tax cuts as a route to economic growth was looking pretty shaky.
Yet Vietnam is a stable autocracy experiencing rapid growth, and Thailand is a shaky and semiprosperous democracy.
"If the monthly numbers don't improve in coming months, we can probably expect the third-quarter growth number to look very shaky".
