1.   Similarly, a rise in the market rate of interest should make unprofitable some investments which were previously profitable, so that aggregate investment should fall.

2.   Since demand has risen by a smaller amount than previously, investment has actually fallen.

3.   If demand should level off and remain constant, net investment will fall to zero.

4.   A time line shows how invested money grows over the years, and another illustrates the amount that current investments fall short of the goal.

5.   A weaker yuan could spur export growth at a time that the economy is weakening, foreign investment is falling, and millions of urban workers are facing unemployment.

6.   All our investments fall into one of those categories.

7.   But in harder, more pessimistic times, investment falls even when rates are low.

8.   But the investments fall far short of enrolling every eligible child.

9.   But when stocks drop, leverage works the other way, causing margined investments to fall twice as fast as the market.

10.   By making it more expensive for firms to raise capital in equity markets, a stock market crash can directly cause corporate investment to fall.