"The point of giving these crisis loans is to help countries avert those kind of contractionary policies, not to demand them as a condition on the loans," according to Weissman.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: Subject: Global Financial Crisis] Reference

The British pound is steady as the January construction PMI rose to 48.6 but still remained in 'contractionary' territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [FXstreet.com] Reference

Recessions are "contractionary" periods, that force us to get more conscious about money and our spending, get rid of waste and conserve our resources where most needed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business Know-How Newsletter. Ideas to market and manage small businesses.] Reference

"contractionary" measure will hurt the recovery and put more pressure on the government to continue spending, it notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [IBTimes.com RSS Feed] Reference

Numbers under 50 indicate contractionary activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Factory Orders Increase 1.1%,] Reference

So it increases the contractionary risks on the economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panetta Shalala Rivlin Briefing On Gop Budget Plans] Reference

Whatever "contractionary vibes" are, I'm sending them too.    From Wordnik.com.  [late valentine] Reference

We are now in the contractionary (bear) phase of the cycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recession Is Inevitable] Reference

All were sort of negatives, contractionary shocks in the economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2003] Reference

Now, the state is having a contractionary direct impact on employment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danny Schechter: As Economic Team Bails, System Fails To Create Jobs] Reference

Lending that imposes contractionary conditions in a downturn is inexcusable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Weisbrot: South America: Recession Can Be Avoided] Reference

Prof. Blinder has a rather unorthodox definition of contractionary fiscal policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bond Market Vigilantes Could Do Us Some Good] Reference

Q Laura Tyson has emphasized more than once that seven years is too contractionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference

Such contractionary policies would reduce real incomes and exacerbate political instability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enough With the Interest Rate Cuts] Reference

While that was an improvement, numbers under 50, nonetheless, indicate contractionary activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Factory Orders Fall for] Reference

Member bank borrowing and the Fed's contractionary monetary policy during the Great Depression.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Will Economic Stimulus Measures Stave Off Recession?] Reference

Taiwan's reading was contractionary, while South Korea's dropped to its weakest level for 17 months.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Comes Down Slowly] Reference

I'm not necessarily in favor of an expansionary policy, I'm merely opposed to a contractionary policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks In First Session Of Economic Summit A] Reference

There is no reason right now, it seems to me, to subject the economy to additional contractionary risk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Laura Tyson Chair Of Cea] Reference

The real estate recession and the ensuing credit crisis I have been writing about are highly contractionary events.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ron Insana: Is It Deja Vu All Over Again?] Reference

The contractionary consequences of liberalisation and outward orientation resulting from recent policy developments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussion Documents for Commissions] Reference

Our sense is that tax increases and spending cuts of that magnitude would have a contractionary effect on the economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Briefing On Balanced Budget Amendment By Rubin Altman Minel] Reference

To counterbalance this, monetary policy whose primary objective is maintaining price stability, has to be contractionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussion Documents for Commissions] Reference

So we're taking one whole possible instrument and essentially putting it on a contractionary course year after year after year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panetta Shalala Rivlin Briefing On Gop Budget Plans] Reference

Moreover, one should recognize that deficit reduction by itself is contractionary fiscal policy and constrains aggregate demand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr Tyson Remarks At Center For National Policy] Reference

Such contractionary policies reduce domestic credit, raise interest rates, and slow down economic growth, and hinder job creation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radhika Balakrishnan: Making the International Monetary Fund Accountable to Human Rights] Reference

Now, we have had an economy which has moved forward at a very remarkable clip with a contractionary fiscal policy which took bite in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Briefing By Vp Gore Tyson Rubin And Rivlin On Budget] Reference

I am a first-time contractionary word user so I will leave it to Stephen Colbert to take that term apart, but it can't be a good thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danny Schechter: As Economic Team Bails, System Fails To Create Jobs] Reference

If they would have continued to remain idle or foolishly implemented contractionary monetary policies things could have been much worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Thomas: Toward a More Complex and Difficult Depression] Reference

The IMF's favored contractionary policies also conflict with the economic logic of providing loans in the context of an economic crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Weissman: The IMF Accountability Moment] Reference

These are contractionary fiscal policies that will likely lead to less consumer and business activity, slower growth, and falling prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inflation Is Overblown] Reference

However, it does not justify imposing contractionary fiscal or monetary policies in countries that are suffering from an economic downturn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Weisbrot: A New Role For the IMF?] Reference

This does not mean that monetary policy alone can offset the contractionary effect of the current massive disruption in the credit markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fed Still Has Plenty of Ammunition] Reference

That's fine: Tax rates are a part of the economy we can control, and Boehner sensibly doesn't want to let them become contractionary while we're in a recession.    From Wordnik.com.  [When did 'more economic pain' become a popular position in American politics?] Reference

Economic growth came to a halt in 1992-93 largely because of contractionary domestic policies intended to wring speculative excesses from the stock and real estate markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1995 CIA World Factbook] Reference