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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
respend .
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Well, first, obviously you would want to assess the total stimulative effect after all the spending has gone out, plus it has time to be respent a round or two (call it six months maybe after the end of spending).
Matthew Yglesias » Business Forecasters Say ARRA Worked 2010
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The second, the economy-wide theory, hypothesizes that any energy savings from efficiency would be offset by money savings respent on activities that demand additional energy consumption.
David B. Goldstein: How Bad Ideas Keep Rebounding Into Public Discourse: The Rebound Effect and Its Refutation David B. Goldstein 2011
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The second, the economy-wide theory, hypothesizes that any energy savings from efficiency would be offset by money savings respent on activities that demand additional energy consumption.
David B. Goldstein: How Bad Ideas Keep Rebounding Into Public Discourse: The Rebound Effect and Its Refutation David B. Goldstein 2011
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Money has a multiplier effect because it can be spent, respent, and so on.
How bad will the economy be next year? Michael Turton 2009
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Thursday's budget uncovered more than NZ$2 billion of pork but then respent the money elsewhere.
Kiwi Stall 2009
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They shouldn't be recycled, respent, reused in allowing TARP to become what is essentially a political slush fund to be used for whatever the administration decides to use it for.
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For example, even if a household reduced its direct fuel use by lowering thermostats or driving less, the money saved by doing so could be respent on goods that required an equivalent amount of energy for their production, thereby negating the original act of conservation.
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However, Schipper argues that the income effect is very low: as only 5 to 15% of income saved is respent on indirect energy use (with air travel at the high end).
Rebound effect 2008
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Clark said the standard formulas used by governments and tourism bureaus to calculate the economic benefits from a visiting film crew are "a conglomeration of factors" that account for direct spending and a further multiplier that reflects how that money is later respent as it ripples through the community.
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It is more about the respect for your woman in the case of "Omega Men" These men seem to have no respent for their partners.
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