Sentences with phrase «if economic activity»

Legal sector will thrive if the economic activity prospers.

If economic activity slows, new car sales are likely to slow and manufactures might increase their rebates or other sales incentives.

But if economic activities grow too large, they can disrupt the ability of those ecosystems to do their job.

Not exact matches

If the PMI does not suit you in gauging the strength and direction of economic activity, try sales of autos and light trucks.

If true, expect more fuel to be added to the commodities fire, further increasing drag on global economic activity while adding to the already worrisome upward pressure on inflation.

According to data compiled by business management software firm Sage, if just 10 percent of annual spending in San Francisco was redirected from chains to local businesses, it would generate $ 192 million in local economic activity and create almost 1,300 new jobs.

When I look at decisions to expand my business, if I look to hire new people, the reason I make the decision to do that is based upon what the economic climate is going to be and the economic activity of my industry,» said Rowen.

However, as we noted in our Financial System Review, financial vulnerabilities would usually translate into full - blown risks — with attendant consequences for the economy — only if there was a trigger, such as a widespread and sharp decline in economic activity and employment.

Companies and economists have expressed concern improved global economic activity might sputter if other governments are prompted to raise their own import barriers.

But if the crisis stems from a downturn in economic activity, and there is little inflation, expect the price to suffer.

If Brexit, either via the squeeze on living standards from the weak pound or a material drop in business activity, investment and earnings, (or both) leads to a fall in the UK economic outlook, we might just start to see the bullishness around UK bank shares fade.

If the authorities are willing to engage in loss - making activities to achieve the GDP growth target, there are two relevant characteristics of an economy like China's that change the nature of the GDP measure: first, economic activity is much less affected by hard - budget constraints than it is in most other economies; and second, bad debt is much less likely to be written down.

What I can prove, and have proved if you agree with my assumptions that Chinese economic activity is much less limited by hard - budget constraints than other economies and that debt is much less likely to be written down correctly, is that it is definitely not 6.9 percent.

This economic activity, they argue, would be eliminated if the Dreamers were deported.

If there's a bright spot for the province, however, it's that the ongoing disruption of Alberta oil sands production — estimated by the Conference Board of Canada to be about 1.2 million barrels a day, comprising nearly $ 1 billion in economic activity — has contributed to a rally in global oil prices that could give producers, and therefore the Alberta economy, a badly - needed lift once production is finally back on - line (assuming, of course, the fires are eventually extinguished and oil sands operations escape serious damage).

Even if the Fed can change the fed funds rate in that situation, we must question whether it can predictably affect economic activity.

With personal consumption accounting for nearly 70 percent of all economic activity, however, the administration will be hard pressed to lift growth substantially if consumers remain cautious about opening their wallets.

If the goods they produced end up being imported from jurisdictions with less stringent environmental standards, then we lose twice — higher global GHG emissions and less economic activity in Canada.

Also, if domestic economic activity and demand were to be even stronger than expected, given the existing strength of the labour market, upward pressure on labour costs could emerge, eventually pushing inflation higher.

In his famous book, «The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,» Keynes writes, «a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation, whether moral or hedonistic or economic... if the animal spirits are dimmed and the spontaneous optimism falters, leaving us to depend on nothing but a mathematical expectation, enterprise will fade and die; though fears of loss may have a basis no more reasonable than hopes of profit had before.»

If much of the takeover business on Wall Street has ceased to be an economic activity, then what is it?

This would mean, for instance, that participants in an economic transaction are bound to halt their activity whenever any one of them or any affected individual objects to it, or a criminal court judge is bound to halt the trial's proceedings if the accused dissents from a specific rule of the judicial system.

Also, if we think of our economic wellbeing as having to do with the future as well as the present, then we must consider how present activities contribute to a global warming that will be extremely costly to us and to our descendants.

But if the Trinity be understood in a purely economic sense, so that the distinctions correspond only to aspects of God manifested in His activities of creation, revelation, inspiration or the like, then there are no eternal relations of self - giving within the divine life of Absolute Actuality.

But as a general pattern this seems to me a product of romanticism, taking with insufficient seriousness the «materialism of Christianity,» as William Temple called it, and quite likely to produce the wrong kind of guilt feelings in competent young people who are in or who are considering the ministry — as if this activity were not worthy of economic support.

The next step is the currently proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investments which, if enacted, will still further restrict the ability of governments to influence the nature of economic activity within their national boundaries.

If appropriate to the situation, participate in activities that promote social and economic justice and other forms of nonviolent activism.

The loss of trade with Russia hurts (they wouldn't be trading with them in the first place if they weren't the most cost - effective option) but alternatives are easier to come by and makes up a much smaller portion of their economic activity.

It should be noted that if you include deaths from sweatshops, activities outlined in «confessions of an economic hitman», and a handful of wars... capitalism likely has quite the death toll behind it as well, but where do you draw the line between imperial ambitions and capitalism... and if we're willing to draw that line for capitalism, where does that line lay for the communists death toll?

If there is something to learn from this radical republican experience, it is that the concept of virtue is not inherently hostile to economic activity, nor is it intrinsically bound up with a defense of existing hierarchies and cultural exclusion.

If you look at the capital market for instance, that is the best indicator... markets, investors, economic activities are now beginning to take a pessimistic view, because they don't have a cabinet or policies... it is the same thing in the forex market.»

It took a Freedom of Information request to reveal that large swathes of the country, including places supposed to benefit from classic compatible HS2 trains such as Liverpool, Lancaster and Glasgow, could lose economic activity if HS2 goes ahead.

Calling the college «the heartbeat of economic development in Ulster County,» Perfit said, «If SUNY New Paltz was not in New Paltz, there would be no New Paltz in terms of commercial activity.»

The fourth and final element of the Keynesian counteroffensive might be called the «plan B» problem: what if rapid cuts do have gravely depressive effects on economic activity and investment?

«If that concern is addressed, there is a great deal to like about the project — jobs, economic activity and improvements to the park, all privately funded.»

«This will immediately be a positive influence on economic activity — anybody can change their mind, particularly if they're convinced that it's a good idea,» Mr. Rivera said.

You extrapolate that in 2050 and you get a world economic activity that's four times higher than today and people say that and many people just say, if not it can't happen.

But if I had to prioritize, I think that basic science generates more economic activity, which in turn helps supports all the other things we want government to do, than do the social sciences.

Moreover, this information allows understanding which coastal communities would be most affected in economic and employment terms if restrictive measures on fishing activities are set in a specific area.

If anything, the pollution outlook in China is likely to grow darker as population and economic activity burgeon, said Qian.

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It is clear that in a capitalist mixed economy predominantly state or predominantly private, the rationality in the operation of the economic system of a country can only be achieved in formulating goals (performance standard) and correction of deviations between what was planned and what was achieved if the State act in the governance of the system as a regulator of economic activity and as a mediator between the capitalists and civil society ensuring its participation in government decisions.

«Closer to home in New York State if we added a single percentage point to the college attainment rate of adults in New York it would add $ 17.5 billion in economic activity,» said King.

«There was a study done recently at Stanford University that showed if we raised our math achievement in the United States just to the level of Canada, it would add a trillion dollars a year in economic activity,» King said.

Here the union leader blithely ignores that the same economic activity would be generated by taxpayer money if it were not diverted to pensions in the first place.

Conversely, if the BDI is dropping, that could suggest a deceleration in global economic activity, favoring an underweight position in equities and overweight developed market sovereign bonds.

On the other hand, if too much dept is accumulated relative to income levels, economic activity may decrease in order to ensure the return of debts, which in turn might lower the currency price.

If people use their credit more it can mean an increase in economic activity and encourage currency prices.

flxible wrote that «running an advanced civilization on solar etc only» can only happen if we «accept that growth must end, in «economic» activity, all energy use, and particularly human population».