productive investment

Any support for productive investment has to be seen in that context.

Imagine instead, he said "all the opportunities in these countries for productive investment."

"There is every prospect that this land can be a highly productive investment."

Let's hope it does get regulated so we can rebuild the economy around productive investment instead.

"Our nation opens its doors to productive investments by foreign enterprises."

Complying with new mandates means not planning for productive investment.

In fact, if deficits were cut at the expense of productive investment, the plan would do more harm than good.

After all, the billions that apparently went in bribes might have gone instead to productive investment.

"These revenues will be directed to productive investment and poverty reduction."

Budget deficits are a tax on our future, unless used to finance productive investments.

Instead set the rate at the level that ensures the optimum amount of productive investment.

They lower future economic growth by reducing the level of national savings that can be devoted to productive investments.

They also play a critical role in channelling savings into productive investments.

There are other productive investments to be made, other good uses for the economy's resources.

It's possible that money spent on the war could have been used for more productive investments instead - scientific research, for example.

But today the self-interest of management may be standing in the way of productive investment.

And before credits were suspended, they often went to paying increased wages rather than to productive investment.

Nor will the temporary tax cut spur productive investment.

Restructuring also soaks up resources that otherwise could be used for productive investment.

Neither are they targeted on productive investments like equipment.

Tax cuts drive up the deficit, siphoning private savings away from productive investment.

We need a new, comprehensive regulatory framework which can steer the financial system back to productive investments.

Proponents of the bill say it will increase Federal tax revenues and revive long-term productive investment.

It is true, to be sure, that no hard productive investment in plant, tools or microchips will come from this effort.

I'm also troubled by the fact that our tax system unfairly penalizes some productive investments.