"Legal and regulatory developments have led to changes intended to support Facebook's platform and users, but they will notably restrain growth and profits for at least the next couple of quarters," Kessler said.
A brace of regulatory initiatives also suggests that national authorities have become much more focused on their own interests.The Swiss Federal Banking Commission has released details of its beefed-up capital regime, which will help to restrain growth in assets when times are good.
Mr. Bernanke in recent Congressional testimony expressed the concern that "tight federal fiscal policy will restrain economic growth".
In fact, he highlighted the risk that "tight federal fiscal policy will restrain economic growth over the next few quarters by more than we currently expect".
"The risks remain that tight federal fiscal policy will restrain economic growth over the next few quarters by more than we currently expect, or that the debate concerning other fiscal policy issues, such as the status of the debt ceiling, will evolve in a way that could hamper the recovery," he told the committee.
"The risks remain that tight federal fiscal policy will restrain economic growth over the next few quarters by more than we currently expect," Mr. Bernanke said, "or that the debate concerning other fiscal policy issues, such as the status of the debt ceiling, will evolve in a way that could hamper the recovery".
"The persistence of high gasoline prices, coupled with lower equity prices and lower consumer sentiment, will restrain the growth of real consumer spending in the second half of 2006," Brian Bethune, an analyst with Global Insight, wrote today in a report about the retail sales numbers.
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Yes, the I.M.F., which must lecture the profligates of the globe, is worried that a structural deficit will push up interest rates and restrain growth as America ceaselessly borrows to steer red ink from imbalanced budgets onto future taxpayers.
And here he is saying that the main thing we need to do in order to restrain growth in the deficit and in government spending, which will otherwise bankrupt us, is to cut the biggest government entitlement programme, Medicare.
