Sentences with phrase «because economic thinking»

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Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank, said this meeting is more serious than in past years largely because of the fallout from Brexit, which is raising concerns about Ireland's economic prospects and the future for Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.

«There's no reason to think that the pace of economic growth today is excessive and needs to be slowed because of incipient inflation,» Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, said in calling on the Fed not economic growth today is excessive and needs to be slowed because of incipient inflation,» Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, said in calling on the Fed not Economic Policy Institute, said in calling on the Fed not to hike.

Adds Etrit, 28, who was COO of Detroit - based smart building technology company Hepta Systems before leaving recently to co-found Kodelabs, a software development and real estate technology start - up, with Edi: «From an economic standpoint, immigrants only make this country better, because different minds think differently, and that's what makes this country amazing.

That in turn increases barriers to entry for startups, because entrenched political players look to «economic winners» for support to stay in power, argues Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at the public policy think tank New America.

His first book, The End of Economic Man (1939) prompted Winston Churchill to call Drucker «one of those writers to whom almost anything can be forgiven because he not only has a mind of his own, but has the gift of starting other minds along a stimulating line of thought.»

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.

Discussing the topic on s lightly more political / economic scope, I wonder if the decline you see in America can be linked to the opening of China's economy, where marginal producers in America have been replaced by high performing Chinese producers (because of lower wages) the result has been to see the average wages of «more profitable» producers be eroded to take this production shift to China — thinking of the Chinese labor pool as an addition to the American labor pool bringing down wages across the board.

Jeff Currie, head of commodities research at Goldman Sachs — which correctly predicted oil would reach US$ 85 in 2009 — thinks crude has a good chance of hitting US$ 100 this year, primarily because «U.S. economic data has surprised to the upside.»

But it is not «symbiotic,» because it can be ended at any time without really threatening either party's solvency and survival» could you please explain why you don't think that if, say, the US and China had to sever their economic ties (Walmart & Co.) that would not severely hurt both economies?

The second is when you are at max revenue growth, but don't yet have good unit economics because you can get in the trap of continuing to burn your excess capital to fund for the revenue growth whereas if you had more constrained capital, you would start to think about converting that revenue growth to actual unit economic growth.

As a result, and because of the Bullwhip Effect, growth in developing economies is going to be jerked around more than people think, making for a good deal of cyclical economic contagion.

The insights provided to Jay came from a history professor in 1967 who advised Jay that when countries go off a gold or silver standard, hard economic times are sure to follow because nations begin to think they do not need to work hard and save to enjoy a better life.

I think most investors could benefit from the book, mainly because I believe that economic history is valuable.

«I think when you look at a project like this you have to look at all the different aspects for the community because we want economic development, we want clean air, and we want a resilient, sustainable forest industry.

@Rob — One of the many reasons I think bankers are overpaid is because I think the economic system is inevitably cyclical, and so they should not be given out - sized rewards for riding the good times and then escape with the loot in the bad.

Now there are times that the yield curve is inverted because we are predicting a slowdown in the economy but I don't think, you know, here we are into the eighth year of economic expansion, ninth maybe, and it doesn't really seem to be any particular reason that that economic expansion is going to die any time soon, so the traditional inverted yield curve «we're about to go into recession» I don't see.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education,» he said.

I think Rush is upset because the Pope is repudiating the economic policies of one of his idols — Ronald Reagan.

I didn't buy «Japan is Number One» when that was the mantra two decades ago, because Japan had severe demographic problems» as in, very few children; its lack of the most basic form of people power in the most elementary form, I thought, would soon become evident in economic weakness (as it has).

If what I think is going to happen economically does happen, he will forever be known as the 21st century Herbert Hoover and the GOP will be out of power for the next 40 years, as they deserve to because they created this current economic mess back with Reagan's cut taxes but not cut spending starting in 1980.

I say «virtual absence» because it can be argued that nature has been present in economic thinking under the rubric of land.

Equally important is the violence worked on the nonhuman world because of the virtual absence of nature from economic thinking.

Nevertheless, the clergy's approach disturbed me because it did not try to understand or respond to the position of the antitax forces who thought that new levies would impede economic growth at just the time it was most needed.

There is a logic: in bringing our action to the European level, it is because we think that unemployment is not a strictly national question, that it has its origins in European economic policy and that it is situation at a global level.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education.

Holmes dissented when the Supreme Court overturned economic regulations as violating substantive due process or freedom of contract not because he favored the regulations, but because he thought that the forces which dominated the political branches should be allowed to govern in their own way.

«I think the reason that the economic arguments Christ offered are not promoted is because they are deeply at odds with the way we live,» he explains.

It is because they were specific that people in and outside of the Catholic Church saw what their values really were and how they stood over against the dominant economic thinking in North America.

I think Jesus would be deeply offended that a nation that could provide healthcare for the sick would not because of economic greed.

Jesus was against strictly political or economic solutions because he thought they were too easy when it comes to the real challenges of human life, Raschke said.

The fundamentalist view has come to be preferred because of the economic advantage it offers to the television industry and because elements within this thought are in harmony with television's goals of reinforcing the social status quo with the economic basis of American broadcasting, and with the promotion of a consumer orientation toward social issues and human relationships.

But as followers of Christ, I think it's very important for everyone to get to know the present truth of the global economic system because it includes all of us.

but, im ok with this vardy transfer... it shows us many things: 1) wenger is changing, something some of us have been demanding for a long time; 2) it shows that wenger is taking risks: think about it, he is buying a men for a not cheap price, knowing he could not getting anything after, with a future sell i mean... this is an act that shows wengers intentions to win something, the buy is not motivated by any financial or economic reason but only for a «get the f epl once again» reason... this is an act that shows us hungry, even if we fail, we could said we try... first ever, we really try; 3) finally but very important... vardy is the kind of player we need... he is a warrior, a fighter... he has character... look at how he celebrate his goals... full of energy... he, like alexis, can motivate the team when the things are not going in our way (something wenger cant do because of his age and because he has never been an active coach on the pitch)... the vardy transfer, if it finish well, is a demostration of a change, and a good one... lets take care of winning things and do nt look the economic side for once... vardy is a bit old, but we can give a chance to welbeck after maybe, or akpom... u are not thinking about the future when we talk about ibra... guys: u complain when wenger do nt spend or because he is always looking for the bargain when u are the guys who has to pay the very expensive tickets... u complain when wenger buy the always for the future guy... like morata... stop to complain for everything and be consequent with yourself... i would love auba, but it is not going to happen... lukaku is awesome but the asking price is stupid... lets try with vardy, give us the throphy..

He is... maybe... just a man the owners think is best for the job because - frankly - he shares the same ideas / philosophy and economic orientation.

They play it much harder in the tall trade, says Halberstam, because, while we may think of our sports stars as heroes, «the new American athlete, particularly the modern American professional basketball player... was rarely confident about anything save his own sport... he was more often than not black, often came from pathetic economic and psychological circumstances, was a basketball player out of desperation....

«We have never thought about it because he is too much of an important player for his club, of great economic power,» he said.

It is perhaps inevitable that, because Mrs T drew so much pleasure rubbishing Mr Keynes, the swing away from what is thought to have been her economic strategy should result in a pretty hasty buying of Keynes» stock.

They changed their mind because they concluded that the impact of tax rises and spending cuts on economic growth — the fabled «fiscal multipliers» — has turned out to be a much bigger drag on growth than they, the Government or the OBR originally thought.

But while national politicians will not need to adjust their campaign strategies because of the economic changes taking place, once in office they will need to adjust the way they think about the north and how to conduct business there.

Unfortunately they have failed because the electorate simply does not believe Clegg; they think he can not be trusted because he changed his mind on economic strategy prior to the general election yet continued making arguments which ran counter to this change.

A spokesman for the governor responds that it's a «joke» to think a comptroller's pre-audit of an economic development contract could flag a corrupt arrangement, and says spokesman Rich Azzopardi dismissed DeFrancisco's comments as a personal grudge against Cuomo because, he says, the governor criticized the senator for spending some time in Florida.

«I think that, you know, paying a higher tax rate for higher incomes, having a million dollars be the cut - off is actually a better approach in my view, because you're retaining lower tax rates for small businesses and small businesses are such an important economic engine for growth in this country,» the state's junior senator said.

«I think my party deserves a lot of credit because we woudn't be seeing the economic recovery unless the Liberal Democrats had shown resolve,» Brown added.

«Blacks and Latinos have aligned goals on issues such as economics and healthcare because African - Americans and Hispanics have similar problems in those areas,» said David Bositis, senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that studies public policy issues affecting African - Americans.

«I think the politics of endorsement, the politics of association, have much less to do with the way that people make decisions, because people are dealing with such economic challenges.

«I'm hoping that he sees it in a positive light and we can move forward,» Mr. Pretlow said, «because I think it would be an economic boon for the State of New York.»

We disagree — and not simply because it would be foolish to think Labour has nothing positive to learn from a politics which delivered the party three historic general election victories, record investment in, and the renewal of, our public services, and a decade of economic growth and prosperity.

«We thought the minimum wage... was important to put in the budget, because we think that it ultimately has budget implications... We think that the extra income generated by the minimum wage payments will lead to higher sales taxes for the state and a more stable economic environment for the state in which the whole fiscal plan unfolds.»

Osborne, he says, thinks «it is absolutely vital that the eurozone succeeds» because of the economic consquences if it collapses.

An irony: amid all this highfalutin braggadocio of how close we are to computers taking over the world and emulating human thought, I had to give my talk on the «social singularity» (progress in political, economic and social systems over the past 10,000 years) early because Rice University computer scientist James McLurkin could not get his small swarm of robots to work.