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November 06, 2008

crowdout

Crowd out

crowd out - 1. push out, leave not room for other things to exist (perhaps because it is so successful),  2. when government borrowing to finance government spending causes higher interest rates and reduces the amount of loans that private companies get  (See Wikipedia)

crowd out investments
deficits crowd out private investment
government budget deficits crowd out investment
budget deficits would crowd out investment and prevent a strong and sustained recovery
any new investment stimulated by tax cuts will raise interest rates and crowd out other investments

grants do not crowd out private sector involvement
federal grants crowd out assistance that might otherwise come from private sources or states
many cereal grains will shade and crowd out most annual competition before tiny weedlings have a chance to become established

increased government borrowing did not crowd out private borrowers because international lenders provided the funds

crowd out weeds
to crowd out weeds, make a second application of fertilizer in the early spring
pollution and the introduction of exotic species crowd out native plants and animals
white fir trees were able to crowd out the larger Douglas fir
cattails  crowd out other plant life

familiar names crowd out newcomers

crowd out important issues
let's put this issue in context and not let it crowd out the truly important issues

crowd out the rage
a deep melancholy -- a numbness -- is beginning to crowd out the rage once felt
I detected an inner hardening that threatened to crowd out my compassion for other victims of violence

financial black holes destined to crowd out the companies other activities

his physical defect will crowd out other details in a description of him

the efficient gardener will plant a cover crop to crowd out pernicious weeds

the larger government grew the more you would crowd out civic responsibility
pride in achievements couldn't quite crowd out the disappointments of the past

budgets strained to the breaking point by the costs of demographic aging, which will crowd out all forms of capital accumulation -- private and public

our structural deficits drain our already shallow pool of private savings -- and hence crowd out private investment
entitlements and interest on old debts crowd out everything else

raise the national debt, the increase in borrowing by the federal government could crowd out private investment and consumers' purchases of homes and durable goods



Example sentences:

* Any new investment stimulated by tax cuts will raise interest rates, crowd out other investments and quite likely make the dollar dearer and further handicap American goods

* The chairman of Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers expected that budget deficits would crowd out investment and prevent a strong and sustained recovery.

* Quotas can unfairly crowd out people who are not in the quota situation.

* To maintain a high-quality turf or to crowd out weeds, make a second application of fertilizer in the early spring.

* Budgets strained to the breaking point by the costs of demographic aging, which will crowd out all forms of capital accumulation -- private and public, material and human.

* Our structural deficits drain our already shallow pool of private savings -- and hence crowd out private investment.

* But where can we find such a sum when entitlements and interest on old debts crowd out everything else?

* Excess bile pours into the colon, allowing the anaerobic bacteria to crowd out their neighbors. Researchers suspect this is a double whammy...

* Substantially increased government borrowing to finance the deficit did not crowd out private borrowers because foreign lenders proved ready and willing to make up the difference.

* The challenge becomes to put this issue in context and not let it crowd out the truly important issues that people are desperate to hear more about.

* 27,000 species vanish each year. Pollution and the introduction of exotic species -- which crowd out native plants and animals -- are also to blame.

* A deep melancholy -- a numbness -- is beginning to crowd out the rage and whatever was left of the optimism gay people once felt.

* For decades, fire suppression efforts meant that white fir trees were able to crowd out the larger Douglas fir and Ponderosa pine in which eagles build nests that can

* The shuttle and the space station are financial black holes destined to crowd out NASA's other activities unless they are plugged.

* Here were almost the entire entourage of neo-Keynesians arguing that deficits crowd out private investment, when for fifty years the whole basis of their creed was

* Political judgment is allowed to crowd out board room judgment.

* The worst problem is excessive growth of cattails, which crowd out other plant life.

* She knows that his physical defect will crowd out other details in a description of him.

* Once that's done, the efficient gardener will plant a cover crop to crowd out pernicious weeds and fix beneficial nitrogen. Some gardeners swear by cover crop.

* I felt mute and helpless, and I detected an inner hardening that threatened to crowd out my compassion for other victims of violence.

* Unfortunately, these sorts of " Willie Horton of the Wilderness" stories crowd out examples of how the Endangered Species Act is working.

 * The larger government grew the more you would crowd out civic responsibility, and that, in the end, you could never replace

Nonfunctioning white cells in the bone marrow that, if left unchecked, can crowd out the remaining normal marrow cells, or words to that effect.

* His pride in his achievements couldn't quite crowd out the disappointments of his past.

* The taxes which finance affluent capitals crowd out private-sector projects that are relatively more efficient and productive than governmental activity. The

* These by-now familiar names crowd out newcomers who might offer New York audiences something truly unknown and unexpected.

* In the parlance of economics, federal grants crowd out assistance that might otherwise come from private sources or states.

* In general, grants are optimal, as they are immediate and transparent and do not crowd out private sector involvement. Furthermore, as they increase demand for inputs and equipment.

*  If planted densely enough, many cereal grains will shade and crowd out most annual competition before tiny weedlings have a chance to become established

* This could substantially raise the national debt, the increase in borrowing by the federal government could crowd out private investment and consumers' purchases of homes and durable goods.

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