Sentences with phrase «as any economist with»

As an economist with a wide range of experience, I do appreciate the significance of politics, trade, banking, insurance and commerce — and of globalization.

Sarah started her career as an Economist with the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance.

He distinguishes himself from his rivals by highlighting his training and background as an economist with «world - class financial skills.»

Fisher comes to AEA with seven years of experience as an economist with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

As any economist with a degree will tell you: increase the price, watch the quantity demanded go down.

Not exact matches

This April, I partnered with the Council for Economic Education (which educates thousands of teachers annually, providing financial and economic curriculums for K through 12 students) to ask 28 entrepreneurs, editors and economists for their top tip for saving money as part of a social media campaign titled #MySavingsTip.

Jacqueline Palladini is a Senior Economist with the Conference Board of Canada and contributes to research on global trade and investment as part of the Global Commerce Centre.

As Canadian Business columnist and Ivey School of Business economist Mike Moffatt noted last month, a few widely read economists this year have used their associations with various publications to stridently assert that fiscal stimulus won't work.

«We continue to see the household sector as accident - prone, with a complacency toward debt which could prove disruptive to the economy,» wrote HSBC Canada's chief economist recently.

The problem with Flaherty's approach to what economists call «macroprudential» policy is that it isn't as democratic as he argued it to be.

Economists such as Carleton University professor Frances Woolley note that we've moved to this rebate system because everyone wins: well - off students with mediocre grades (who wouldn't have gotten into university at all back when I went) are now effectively subsidizing the smart kids and the ones who need financial aid.

Comments: «Our economists see growth disappointing in 2013 with added risk as a result of uncertainty surrounding the fiscal cliff... Political uncertainty is also high and history tells us that the US underperforms in the first year of a presidential cycle.»

WASHINGTON, March 7 - An economist who believes that Chinese goods are literally poisoning Americans, advocates ending Washington's «One China» policy and says trade deals have weakened the United States economically with the connivance of U.S. business has emerged as the big winner from renewed turmoil in the White House.

The trend is probably going to persist going forward, the economists suggest, especially as younger groups of women have become more educated — affording them the affluence to work more and spend time with their families while hiring someone else to do the dusting.

Even «Dr. Doom» himself, New York University economist Nouriel Roubini, has picked up the theme, arguing that the downturn has exposed Russia as a high - growth imposter with «highly leveraged banks and corporations» and «rust - belt infrastructure» plus «dysfunctional and revanchist politics and a demographic trend in near - terminal decline.»

As for where clients» «spare change» actually goes, Acorns invests it in one of five portfolio options, designed with different levels of risk by Nobel Prize - winning economist Harry Markowitz.

That's bad compared with the U.S. and the European Union, where the rates of inflation are 2.7 percent and 3.1 percent, respectively, but economists not affiliated with the government say the real figure is at least twice as high.

With a background as an investment banker rather than as an economist rooted in a particular analytical framework, Powell will lead «a more data - driven Fed, which at the current juncture means a more dovish Fed,» until and if inflation recovers, said Robin Brooks, chief economist at the Institute of International Finance.

But that likely won't last long, explains Paul Leclair, chief economist with the Pulp and Paper Products Council, because as the manufacturing industry moves to Asia, «you want to be producing paper near to where it's consumed.

Indeed, as labour economist Jim Stanford recently pointed out, our GDP growth fell behind six of the G7 in the second and third quarters of last year, beating only Italy with an average advance of 1.7 % during the six - month period.

My philosophy department dismissed me as a futurist and the economists dismissed me as a philosopher (A little vindication: I have since had a few individuals contact me and apologize for dismissing me and in review they have found my premises and argumentation sound even if they still do not necessarily agree with my conclusions).

The economist accused Jill Stein of spoiling Clinton's chances in Florida and said with Trump as president there would be no way to reverse the impact of global climate change.

«In a sea of global political uncertainty,» says David Rosenberg, Chief Economist and Strategist with Gluskin Sheff in Toronto, «Canada stands out as a bastion of stability.»

Economists were disappointed with the stall in imports, but were encouraged by the rise in consumer goods imports as this was a sign domestic demand was holding firmer.

«With home prices and rents rising as fast as they are, it's a common assumption that young adults in many cases can not afford to live alone,» Svenja Gudell, chief economist at Zillow, said in a news release.

Still, the effects of increased levels of potash production, as promised by Uralkali, on the demand for Canadian potash remains to be seen, said Paul Ferley, assistant chief economist with RBC.

A significant portion of the TSC hearing focused on Haldane's now famous Fish comment, as well as broader issues with economic forecasting — something that has come to the fore in the UK since economists were almost unanimously wrong in their predictions about the immediate impact of Brexit on the British economy.

Zuora quotes The Economist with this bit of news: «80 % of companies are seeing a change in how their customers want to access and pay for good and services and 50 % of these same companies are changing their pricing models as a result.»

«The fact that inflation didn't heat up as much as most economists had expected plays into the narrative that the Bank of Canada is going to be very patient with regards to future rate hikes,» Royce Mendes, CIBC World Markets director and senior economist, said in an interview.

Despite the exemptions, nearly two - thirds of the 40 survey respondents, including economists, fund managers and strategists, see the president's trade policies as negative for overall economic growth, with 23 percent saying it's too soon to tell.

With Jerome Powell about to take over as chairman and most of the seven - member Fed board of governors to be new appointees, the tendency will be toward safe decisions and away from anything likely to unsettle Wall Street, said David Rosenberg, chief economist and strategist at Gluskin Sheff.

Classical economists assume consumers are impressive indeed, and this stems from their love affair with a creature as elusive as the New Consumer himself: Homo economicus.

New projects are a bit of a different story but, as always with economists, there are multiple factors to consider.

Meanwhile, most economists take the current trends as indicative of a «soft landing» for the sector, with just a slight moderation in prices afoot.

Most state agencies are grappling with spending cuts of 5.5 %, and they're bracing for more belt tightening as state economists prepare to release reduced revenue estimates for the current and coming fiscal year.

When lumped in with still - rising federal levies like the Universal Services Fund, they add 12 percent to the average American's cell bill and as much as 19 percent in many of our most populous states, says Scott Mackey, economist and partner with government affairs firm Kimbell Sherman Ellis.

Even with the slowdown, National Bank of Canada senior economist Krishen Rangasamy described the end of 2017 as a decent hand off to 2018.

But, as the Economist explores, that has changed with the evolution of the Internet and data science, giving rise to what might be called «data politics.»

But as Neil Dutta, Chief Economist with Renaissance Macro Research points out, if you look at the actual flow data showing the number of people each month entering and exiting the labor force, the rate at which workers are entering the labor force is actually lower today than at any point over the last two years.

«If you're physically able to work — as people are today with better health outcomes — a lot of people are just choosing to join the labour market,» says Francis Fong, an economist with TD Bank.

Economists Michael Gapen and Pooja Sriram noted that the tariffs come as the U.S. economy is otherwise in expansion mode, with aggressive fiscal policy — tax cuts and planned spending increases, specifically — to «provide sufficient support to keep the economy in a recovery phase.»

But instead of meeting and answering the theoretical and evidence - based objections to using fiscal policy, bank economists seem comfortable with proceeding as though these counter-arguments simply don't exist.

Most economists agree that with legalization, we can expect demand to increase in the short - term, as the penalties for being caught with marijuana go down (to zero) and marijuana should be easier to attain.

One study by economist Elaine McCrate found that any reduction in wages associated with the benefit of flexibility is modest at best and, in fact, many jobs with greater flexibility have higher wages.137 Furthermore, the volatility of earnings for many independent contractors would offset any compensating wage differentials, because workers can not compare the value of flexibility to higher earnings when they aren't able to predict their earnings as independent contractors.138

As governor of the Bank of Israel, mild - mannered American economist Stanley Fischer became The Responsible Adult, a superhero with the power of trustworthiness.

As Chief Economist, Brian is tasked with measuring the impact of the sector and bringing economic issues facing charities and nonprofits to the forefront of public policy decision makers.

Taken together with local government borrowing and other obligations, China's gross government debt could be as much as 60 % of gross domestic product, says UBS China economist Wang Tao.

As Chief Economist for Canada's Charitable and Nonprofit Sector, Brian Emmett is tasked with measuring the impact of the sector and bringing economic issues facing charities and nonprofits to the forefront of public policy decision makers.

(The late British economist Angus Maddison credited open trade as one of three factors that mattered to income growth and poverty reduction, along with innovation and settlement of relatively sparse areas.)

As the Federal Reserve met in Washington on Wednesday, a majority of economists believed Chairman Ben Bernanke would continue with the latest round of quantitative easing through the end of his term in January 2014.