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Thus, the nation as a whole may not be able to consume and invest more.
Other studies indicate that these activities consume as much as 80 percent of finance's resources.
After all, he argues, although countries that produce more than they consume must run trade surpluses, these surpluses will guarantee high consumption because the resulting national income increase "has to show up somewhere ." Moreover, he observes, most emerging economies are running global trade deficits--i.e.
The policy of the Roman Catholic Church is that except in extreme circumstances, only Catholics (and sometimes Eastern Orthodox Christians) are invited to consume the consecrated bread and wine at a Catholic Mass.
This was in sharp contrast to the stereotypical frat boys, who, in a time when the word "party" was exclusively a noun, would consume excessive amounts of alcohol as part of their recreational activities.