CBO's third and most realistic estimate expects spending to grow only at the rate of inflation after this year.
But other economists say those numbers which estimate the spending and tax revenue that could be generated by gay weddings represent an insignificant part of the local and state economies.
Personal incomes grew by just 0.1% in January, well below the consensus estimate, though spending rose more than expected, boosting hopes for retailers.
In a year when one estimate has advertising spending up 2.4%, Omnicom's top line should grow 12%, says Troy Mastin of William Blair--versus 5% for WPP and none at all for Interpublic.
Researchers estimate that health care spending will grow an average of 5.8% per year through 2020.
By using the Family Spending Survey (FSS) to estimate a few key expenditure items, some individual household accuracy is lost.
He expects 2012 EPS estimate reductions as record capital spending affects both unit pricing and cost of goods sold.
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The draft spends most of its time on the details of government spending and revenues, which they must estimate using the flawed assumptions Congress gives them.
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Local authority leaders originally forecast 100, 000 posts would go as a result of October's Spending Review, but revised up its estimate a month later after studying the impact of planned town hall budget cuts.
First, review the list of eligible expenses and estimate how much you will be spending in the coming year.
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Since print advertising is the second largest segment of the business, a faster than expected decrease in national print ad spending could mean further downside to our price estimate.
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In fact, Obama is expected to avoid some of the accounting tactics of previous budgets, such as keeping war funding separate, which presented a skewed estimate of the administration's actual spending plans.
There could be a downside of 7% to 8% to our stock price estimate for Wal-Mart if capital spending were to stay at around 13% of gross profits through the end of our forecast period.
The key point about this ring-fencing is that it is simply an estimate by the Treasury of the level of spending needed to maintain services as they are.
By a charitable estimate, says Feldstein, this could raise consumer spending by 0.25% of GDP.
Based on the analysis in that book, I estimate that all these reforms altogether would reduce federal spending by 50% as a percent of GDP over the long run.
If spending increases more than we currently forecast, this could improve our price estimate.
"As the demand for same-sex marriage is uncertain, and because these economic benefits are not guaranteed to be additional (for example, the spending on a civil partnership or marriage ceremony may not be additional if the couple and guests cut back on spending in other areas), we use zero benefit as our best estimate, " it explains.
For example, a 5% increase in annual spending in 2012 per customer translates to around a 2% improvement in our price estimate.
Consumer spending would only grow 1.2% in Q4, compared with a baseline estimate of 2.1%, while CPI inflation would slow to 0.4%.
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Some estimate that about 95% of recent growth is attributable to Beijing's spending, and most of that spending is channeled through the banks.
The most recent estimate by the Congressional Budget Office for this year's sequester is that nondefense spending will be cut by 4.6% and defense spending will be cut by 7.9%.
He has also issued a second budget estimate based on evidence from the 1960s, 1980s and 2000s that tax reform and spending restraint will increase GDP by about 0.5 to one percentage point a year.
If they are ordered to estimate the effect of the stimulus on GDP and jobs, they attach Keynesian multipliers to different spending categories.
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That estimate includes both direct and indirect jobs, and it includes not just a subset of the spending that has to be reported on through recipients, but the full set of Recovery Act activities that are out there in the field creating economic activity so far.
Care to estimate the current market cap value of all business activity related to relatively minor, taxpayer funded government spending that gave us computers, databases, the Internet and biotechnology?
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