Translation of "Gesamtwirtschaftliche nachfrage" in English

It would not be right to encourage aggregate demand all over the EU.

This in turn boosts overall economic demand and economic growth.

Economic stimulus plans are intended to bolster macroeconomic demand and thereby cushion a collapse in production.

It remains to be seen how demand generally will develop in 2010.

Deflation occurs when the inflation rate falls below 0% (a negative inflation rate).

The surpluses of a few countries stand out in terms of their size and reflect subdued aggregate demand.

In bad times there is a tendency for the government to support demand across the whole economy by means of debt-financed public spending.

Especially during the crisis years, the weakness of aggregate demand appears to have compressed profit margins.

Corporate power is increasing, political goods are devaluing, inequality is rising, aggregate demand is falling and CEOs of corporations are too scared to invest the cash of their corporations.

A decent settlement with public-sector workers could give Germany a “backdoor” fiscal stimulus just at the right moment – when aggregate demand is flagging.

We must think hard about fiscal policies and structural measures to support sustained and adequate aggregate demand.

In what economists later called the “repressed” financial system, retail banks fulfilled the necessary function of financial intermediation without taking on suicidal risks, while the government kept aggregate demand high enough to maintain a full-employment level of investment.

After all, restoring stability and growth is only partly about reviving short-term aggregate demand.

But falling core inflation (which excludes volatile energy and food prices) also points to weak aggregate demand.

My second epiphany came in the fall and winter of 2008, when it became clear that large banks had no control over either their leverage or their derivatives books, and that the world’s central banks had neither the power nor the will to maintain aggregate demand in the face of a large financial crisis.

When weak aggregate demand causes the economy to operate far below its potential, cuts in government spending enlarge the jobs deficit.

A commitment to hold down nominal interest rates for a longer period of time should stimulate aggregate demand immediately.

Global greenbacks would offset the deflationary bias in today's arrangements that results from the fact that part of the income set aside as reserves never gets translated into global aggregate demand.

Reforms targeting labor policy, the investment climate, social insurance, competition, education, and infrastructure created a more inclusive and more sustainable growth model by spreading purchasing power, which supported aggregate demand and reduced vulnerability to investment-driven booms and busts.

Powerful business interests will lobby for different policies when they believe that fiscal stimulus yields only inflation than when they believe that it generates higher aggregate demand.

The EESC therefore strongly endorses the conclusion that, in the short term, aggregate demand and inflation must be increased as a matter of urgency.

In recent years, it is only exports, stimulated by wage restraint, that have increased aggregate demand in Germany and thus created incentives for additional investment.

During the economic crisis, targeted investments in infrastructure renewal or construction have been an important part of stimulus and recovery plans at EU and Member State levels, as a way of supporting aggregate demand while ensuring a long term return from money spent.

With regard to the real economy, the ECB notes that the pace of aggregate demand and economic activity in the euro area remained sluggish in the first few months of 1999 and expresses concern at the slowing of growth.

But these are the people least likely to take their tax cuts and spend them to boost aggregate demand.

From the point of view of today's mainstream schools of economic thought, government should strive to keep the interconnected macroeconomic aggregates money supply and/or aggregate demand on a stable growth path.