Not exact matches
The more progressive line argues, as Wolman
does, that reliance on cash transactions «perpetuates [
poor] peoples» exclusion from banking and the formal
economy» and makes it hard for governments, especially
in developing countries, to efficiently serve their citizens.
Since the
economy has picked up, benefiting the rich more than the
poor, high - end courses
in good locations have been
doing well, according to Donald Trump, who owns 18 of them.
Again, why
does Summers say absent the housing bubble the
economy would stagnate, when investing
in mac mansions is such a
poor and unproductive use of capital?
Even
in an
economy that we perceive as shrinking or receding or depressed, we live better than kings
did, and even the
poor do.
He was arguing that an increase
in the value of goods and services an
economy produces
does not necessarily create benefits for the
poorest in society.
«The public has weighed
in, overwhelmingly, that they don't want millionaires to get a tax reduction at this time when the state's
economy is so
poor.
According to Peter: «We know now, if we didn't before, that
in a global
economy there are huge forces widening the gapy between rich and
poor.
Some of my friends
in the media vigorously attack Nigerian journalists and statesmen who openly commend the Ghanaian administration for the strides made so far.Chief Dele Momodu recently said this about of our President «People don't know why I love Ghana so much and the current leader
in particular.He is modest, not flamboyant as we see of other leaders», on BBC few days ago Nigerians interviewed used the positive signs
in Ghana as appropriate yardstick to attack their government, a documentary going round
in the international media exposes the lackadaisical performance of the Nigerian government using the positive performance recorded under John Mahama.The latest BBC reports on the Nigerian
economy captures that the cost of living
in Nigeria continue to soar and
in June, accelerated to 16.5 % the highest rate
in almost 11 years.Gari which is supposed to be the cheapest commodity
in the country can not be afforded by the
poor.
(1) Your question is based on the ridiculous assumption that
economy and politics is a zero sum game and that somehow being «for» middle class means you're «against» (or «don't care about»)
poor; (2) Leaving that aside, championing the case of 75 % of population over 25 % seems like a lot less of a political suicide than championing the case of 25 % over the 75 %, unless I don't quite understand how voting works
in a democracy.
«Ghana is at crossroads and must now decide whether to continue existing policies that will further enrich the wealthy and
do little for the
poor or to make fiscal adjustments that would lift millions out of poverty and bring them into the agricultural
economy in ways that will contribute significantly to economic growth,» Philip Alston said.
He received a negative rating on matters that include taxes, infrastructure, K - 12 education, criminal justice, and the
economy,
in which a majority say he's
doing either a fair or
poor job.
«Now people removed all that I said about the
poor management of the
economy and then made it look like I started by talking about the resource locations of this thing and put it forward and changed certain things to make me look like I was being a tribalist and it was bad, this is where I find people very mischievous;... You take the whole thing out of context and make it look very tribalistic, so, I think, yes, it happened, newspapers reported something wrong and I think people should be ashamed of themselves when they
do this kind of «cut and paste» to create that wrong impression
in the system...» Mr Osafo Marfo clarified.
When it got to the turn of the Council of Elders, the regional chair spoke, Hon Hackman spoke, I spoke and I spoke on the
economy, but you don't talk about the
economy by starting with the resource location;... I started by talking about how poorly this
economy has been managed that we have gone from GHS9.4 bn debt to GHS110bn debt at the time, and how growth, without oil, was 1.9 bn and had dwindled to about 4 % etc.,... And I said something which I've said
in this room: that Ghana is not
poor and that the resource base of this country is found
in five regions and I mentioned the regions specifically because I was making a strong economic argument.
A
poor economy with poorly educated youth doesn't lead
in a good direction.
China's
economy was growing rapidly, but «children from rural areas with
poor educations or
in bad health didn't have the capabilities» to take advantage of new economic opportunities, says Luo Renfu, a longtime Rozelle collaborator and economist at Peking University
in Beijing.
Although East Europe isn't
doing well
in terms of
economy in general, not every Romanian girl is
poor.
At the same time, what should be
done to prevent migration is to enforce new politics to improve
economy, the
poor's quality of life, and above all the meaning of life for the whole world, especially
in the Central America countries.
A sobering segment on This American Life a few years ago documented the plight of Americans living
in depressed towns — themselves plunked down
in poor states — and struggling to fend for themselves
in an
economy that is systematically shedding every kind of job they know how to
do.
Given that the percentage of low - income suburban fourth - grade young men struggling with literacy is only seven percentage points lower than that for big - city counterparts (and only six points lower for suburban fourth - grade young women peers than for big - city counterparts), suburban districts are
doing as poorly as big - city counterparts
in providing the
poorest kids with high - quality education needed for success
in an increasingly knowledge - based
economy.
We hovered right around 18
in a mix of driving, but we
did experience an evening and a morning with fresh snow on the road, so we'll chalk the
poor economy up to that.
Peugeot
does make a diesel - electric hybrid model (which we've reviewed separately) called the 508 RXH, but this actually has
poorer economy than the most efficient diesel
in the 508 SW range, partly because it has four - wheel drive as standard.
If the Fed is easing, and the
economy is
doing well crummy companies with
poor balance sheets can
do well, but overall I think companies with strong balance sheets perform better
in the long run.
In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following
In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance
in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following
in the long run is very good •
Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of
doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results
in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following
in overtrading, which
in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following
in turn results
in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following
in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital
in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following
in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market /
economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it
Recession, besides having obvious drawbacks,
does have one great advantage for
poor credit borrowers - low Federal Reserve rates set by government
in attempt to revive the
economy.
In so doing, they increase the demand for real assets in the economy, and more people are hired to produce the goods demanded, and the average poor guy gets a better shake in the employment marke
In so
doing, they increase the demand for real assets
in the economy, and more people are hired to produce the goods demanded, and the average poor guy gets a better shake in the employment marke
in the
economy, and more people are hired to produce the goods demanded, and the average
poor guy gets a better shake
in the employment marke
in the employment market.
In this post I take a look at why some think that
Economy Awards are
poor value and why their opinion doesn't really matter.
The pillow and blanket were pretty
poor (no different from what I've had on American Airlines
in Economy Class) and, while that doesn't really matter on a daytime flight like this one, Virgin will offer the same on a night flight and the blanket is simply too thin to
do any good at all.
It is one thing to make people aware of things, like the difference
in buying fair trade coffee or
in how much an SUV hurts the environment or what the gallon of ethanol dubyra is pushing is costing many
poor people (and the rest of us) to try and prop up the oil
economy, and another to try and proclaim that people are the root cause of all the misery
in the world, which is complete crap (things like bad governments and overpopulation don't exactly help).
Why
does the list not include economists like Amartya Sen of Harvard University, also a Nobel prize winning economist whose career is devoted to promoting well - being particularly among the world's
poor (he had an op - ed a couple of days ago
in the NY Times re: the food crisis); or Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University, also a former World Bank chief economist and Nobel prize winner who is critical of the globalized free market apparatus run by the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO; or Herman Daley of the University of Maryland, also a former economist at the World Bank whose career is devoted to developing a sustainable
economy within the ecological constraints of our environment.
Not surprisingly, some of the greatest support for wealthier societies
doing more is found
in relatively
poor economies that are not major sources of emissions.
The third world is
poor anyway and they can just build walls to keep the sea from rising like the
did in the Neatherlands where as our
economy is built on speculation and tax minisation schemes it's a finely balanced house of cards and the slightest call on GDP will bring the whole thing tumbling down.
[g] lobalisation seems to have bypassed the discipline of international law completely, and to the extent that international law covers the global
economy, it
does so
in support of the mayor players rather than the
poor and dispossessed (The Ideas of International Law, same, at p. 71).
In this week's Weekend Reads: why it's more expensive than it looks to be poor, how Brexit is helping some young Brits find love, and why everything you've been told about Millennials is a lie (they don't actually like needing to have a second job in the gig economy!
In this week's Weekend Reads: why it's more expensive than it looks to be
poor, how Brexit is helping some young Brits find love, and why everything you've been told about Millennials is a lie (they don't actually like needing to have a second job
in the gig economy!
in the gig
economy!).
For those that think that this can be an opportunity to shift the
economy around, the government has been
in power for 20 years, and all they've
done is leave us
poor and hungry.