Sentences with phrase «economic thinking with»

He revolutionized my economic thinking with his last book.
Janet Yellen, speaking on Wednesday at the Institute for New Economic Thinking with IMF managing director Christine Lagarde, calmed fears that shifting political winds will deter the Federal Reserve's enthusiasm for regulation.

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Paired with some of the lowest interest rates on record, one might have thought these firms would have rewarded Ottawa's kindness by leading an economic turnaround.
Poloz repeated on the weekend that he thinks this period of strong economic growth likely is forcing companies to add workers and invest in operations to keep up with demand.
What that means is that you are in an environment that is going to have further trouble in terms of investment returns that are in areas that are based on economic growth and areas that do relatively well like bonds... Broadly speaking, I think that investors should be looking for lower prices on most risk assets in these developed countries with the exception of Japan.»
More in tune with Schopenhauer than Zig Ziglar, he followed Georgist economic thought, with its public ownership of property, and embraced ascetiscism.
Beijing wrapped up a meeting of top Communist Party economic leaders Wednesday by endorsing a document entitled «Xi Jinping Thought on Socialist Economy with Chinese Characteristics.»
«I think a lot of party members, supporters, and affiliated supporters were happy with the general direction I was trying to take the party, particularly opposition to austerity and offering a real economic alternative,» he said.
In time, he thinks Haiti will attract more private investors, as well as partnerships with nonprofits that recognize the importance of economic initiatives.
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.
But with evidence current sanctions lack public support, Rodriguez said he thought the country's opposition «would feel quite uncomfortable with an escalation of the economic sanctions.
«If Trump really signs the order, that is a declaration of trade war with China,» said Wei Jianguo, former vice commerce minister and now an executive deputy director of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, a government - linked think tank.
Bolton thinks the low application numbers are partly due to the blame that has been placed on business schools for the global economic crisis, along with the bleak job market for MBAs, which has led to lower starting salaries and fewer job offers.
«I think economic inequality is shameful — both pay inequality, and the lack of sick time and support systems for low income women with children.»
Combined with a decrease in personal income tax, a sales tax would lead to increased investment and economic diversification while capturing spending from out - of - province visitors, argued Dylan Jones, president of the Canada West Foundation, a Calgary - based think - tank.
«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.
Coupled with other bumps on the road (think the eurozone crisis and slow global growth) the overall effect, he added, «has been economic growth around 2 percent, and only a very gradual improvement in labor markets.»
Aside from some forward - thinking Asian countries, the situation is even worse globally, particularly in regions with mass poverty and unstable political and economic climates.
But I don't think anybody expected the economic decline we had in 2008 and how long that stuck with us.
In addition to confidence intervals, the forecasting process leads us to think about the risks associated with specific economic developments and to quantify those where possible.
Trump's tweet came hours after his top economic adviser Larry Kudlow told reporters the US is «in the pre-preliminary stages of any discussions» with TPP countries about rejoining the pact, and that the prospect of reentry was more a «thought» than a «policy» at this point.
Turning to investment managers and their non-reaction to the threat he feels Fed action poses, Rodriguez then said they «do not appear particularly concerned with, [or] worried about, the finer nuances of an academic debate between two different schools of economic thought.
Those thinking of exporting generally start with Britain, points out Alan Barrett of the Economic and Social Research Institute, a think - tank in Dublin.
The guiding considerations of an effective U.S. strategy for addressing China's inroads in Europe should be to 1) include Europe in its own thinking and considerations about China, 2) avoid adopting contradictory economic policies that target European allies rather than China, 3) work with Europe to shape and advance a proactive, joint transatlantic agenda to address shared concerns about China.
That framework's been in place since the early 1990s, we have hit the target over that 20 year period, the average inflation rate's pretty close to 2.5 per cent, so we regard that as successful by the terms of the definition that we set ourselves and I think that's made a big contribution to economic stability more generally and I don't think it's an accident that that period of fairly low predictable inflation has coincided with pretty good sustained growth in the economy.
With economic prospects improving, people's thoughts naturally turn to the question «what next for monetary policy?»
«I think it's workforce, workforce, workforce,» said developer Bob Buchanan, chairman of the Montgomery County Economic Development Corp. «Amazon is coming to these entities and saying, «Okay, we're coming in with 50,000 employees over time.
I think we have all waited with baited breath for a long time to see the resiliency of the emerging market economies — as Michael discussed — and it's been heartening to see that play out through real economic growth.
They think that the U.S. president is looking to score political points with his base, but that he won't want to upset the stock market record highs and the faster economic growth by putting up too many trade barriers, a move that probably would spook businesses and investors.
We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort - level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it.»
«Mining is difficult and I think everyone underestimates the true economic costs of extracting a unit of whatever it is, in this case an ounce of gold, and replacing it with an ounce you can take out of the ground next year.
There also was disagreement on the effects of the Affordable Care Act, with 42 % saying they thought it would have no significant effect on economic growth.
Poloz repeated on the weekend that he thinks this period of strong economic growth is likely forcing companies to add workers and invest in operations to keep up with demand.
«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president of research and policy at the liberal - leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.
If Canadians become more focused on economic risks, the thinking goes, they will pay less attention to the Duffy scandal, and they will be more cautious when casting their ballot. In this world - view, it actually helps the Conservatives to talk up bad economic news. This marks a U-turn from earlier messaging, when Conservatives first tried (futilely) to deny the economy was in any trouble at all. With the negative numbers piling up around them, the Tory spin machine has decided to throw in the towel, and try to make a silk purse from this sow's ear. They now want to emphasize the gloomy economic outlook (while simultaneously, of course, evading blame for contributing to it at all).
Couple this economic softness with the fact that just about any commodity you can think of from iron ore, to orange juice, to silver, to coffee, to copper is at or near a five year low and it becomes increasingly difficult to find any significant inflationary pressure and hence the imminent need for a (small) rate increase.
@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.
Both Sandra Jansen and Donna Kennedy - Glans appeared to be willing to challenge the status quo thinking in Alberta's conservative establishment, with Ms. Jansen even questioning the holy grail of Alberta's past economic prosperity.
It's trade finance that provides the economic rationale to do a lot of these things: it happens to be aligned with the health benefits and the social impact of keeping blood diamonds out of the supply chain, but if the money wasn't there, I don't think there'd be an ability to do it,» he says.
I think that the strength can be explained by the precarious global economic and monetary situations, but the point is that a knowledgeable and unbiased observer of the markets shouldn't be scratching his / her head or feeling the need to get creative when coming up with justifications for gold's current US$ price.
We think the current economic environment, combined with low inflation and low interest rates, provides a solid fundamental backdrop for US equities to continue to perform well throughout 2015 and into 2016.
While geopolitical uncertainty always has potential to shake economic confidence, Rhea Thomas, an economist with Wilmington Trust Co., said she did not think it would be enough to slow down global growth.
I don't think the economic plans of the GOP work very well with that.
He was critical of capitalism and thought that Christian leaders should be concerned with the economic and political liberation of their followers.
Begin with the thought that human development appears these days driven entirely by scientific and technological advances (knowledge) as influencing and influenced by economic, political, and social uses of that knowledge (praxis).
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.
Some think of it as no more than a libertarian system, concerned with economic liberty alone, exaggeratedly individualistic, indifferent or even antithetical to welfare programs for the poor, unconcerned with the public good, focused solely on markets and private profit.
He is also frustrated with the church's is left wing, which he thinks has been engrossed in personal issues such as the ordination of gays and lesbians, and has abandoned its former emphasis on economic issues.
The fact that Luther's economic thought was hostile to any form of capitalism largely reflects his unfamiliarity with the sophisticated world of finance then emerging in the public life of the cities.
It goes on to highlight «the difficulty of bringing together the perception of challenge with a new thinking (not just socio - economic) that could better describe, in a Christian fashion, the congruence of new facts with the language and syntheses already given by the tradition -LSB-...] Decisive is the recognition, whether positive or negative, of technology.
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