Gas prices have been declining since May and gross domestic product, while still sluggish, grew throughout the year, according to the most recent Commerce Department estimates.
Germany, Europe's biggest economy but also its most sluggish, is growing at an annual rate of more than 2.5percentt -- a big improvement from 1999, when it grew a total of 1.5percentt.
But although trade bounced back fast from its post-crisis plunge, rising by 6.9% in 2011, it has been decidedly sluggish since, growing by only 2.8% in 2012 and 3.2% in 2013 in dollar terms, even as global GDP grew by 3.1% and 3.2%.
France has revealed that its sluggish economy grew by 0.3% in the last three months of 2013.
Oil apart, the economy has been sluggish: GDP is growing at around 3% a year, not enough to finance a serious attack on poverty.
The new economic team will be taking over when partisan differences over how to address the sluggish economy are growing sharper.
But, as Sides has argued, the fundamentals — a sluggish but nonetheless growing economy and job market — combined with Obama's incumbency, shouldn't lead us to expect an easy Republican victory.
But now, growth is sluggish, and concerns growing.
Because he sees a miserable 2010, characterized by sluggish economic growth, growing job losses, hundreds of bank failures and many more foreclosures.
The Bitcoin blockchain, despite/because of the megawatts of power poured into it, has grown sluggish and slow to change, a victim of its own success, which impedes the pace of innovation….
