Sentences with phrase «recession took hold»

As the Great Recession took hold, many investors found comfort and profits by playing the high - end consumer.

If you saw a large decrease in your tax bill after the recession took hold and property values crashed, you could be seeing an equally large increase in your tax bill, much more than 2 %, as home prices have recovered to the levels there were in 07 ′ -08 ′.

The dog show is sponsored in part by Carroll Pets in Need, which began several years ago after the recession took hold in Carroll, Cimino said.

I'm speculating, but my guess is balances were first paid down, say in 2008 and 2009 as the financial meltdown - caused recession took hold and consumers worried about their jobs, but by 2010 people were again charging more on their cards.

The housing industry cratered in 2008 and 2009 as the Great Recession took hold.

The internet was the obvious scapegoat, at least until the recession took hold, at which point big names in the publishing business reassured the rabble that everything would be fine as soon as the recession was over.

While data on total state and local school funding aren't yet available for the current (2016) school year in most states, in 46 states the necessary data are available to compare general formula funding — the primary state funding source for schools — this year with funding before the recession took hold.

Worse, some states are still cutting eight years after the recession took hold.

As a result, local funding for schools fell after the recession took hold, worsening the even steeper fall in state funding.

In 31 states, total state funding per student was lower in the 2014 school year than in the 2008 school year, before the recession took hold.

After the U.S. recession took hold in 2008, support for increases in teachers» salaries among both uninformed and informed groups of respondents declined sharply.

While staying above 60 % for much of the 2000s, the ownership percentage fell into the 50 % range as the Great Recession took hold and has not yet rebounded.

However, with other «alternative monetary policy instruments» like quantitative easing proving ineffective since the crisis, it may be time to look to negative rates in places like the UK and USA should another recession take hold.

Not exact matches

Dene Rogers, who held the top job at Sears since 2006, had told his board two years ago that he would be decamping with his family back to the United States once Sears weathered the recession and hired a management team that could take the business forward.

It should be obvious — although to many pundits it apparently isn't — that the Fed can't hold off a recession indefinitely by distorting the economy's most important price signal (the price of credit), that is, by taking actions that undermine the economy.

Greed took over, and our country was robbed, we went into a recession and Wall Street, banks and the like, etc., were not held responsible.

«It forces us to either take a lower margin or increase our prices, but we try to hold our prices because our consumers are feeling the effect of the recession, as well.»

When I graduated, the recession was just taking hold so I took the first job I was offered and applied to Countdown on a whim.

WardsAuto: Has the economic recovery taken hold, or do you fear the U.S. is headed for a double - dip recession?

This idea has taken hold because there was a lot of fear mongering that took place when the markets tanked in 2008 (followed by what was known as the «worst recession since the Great Depression»).

I humbly suggest Target, a stock that I think will hold its ground even in a double dip recession coupled with inflation, and will really take off if the economy stages a recovery.

As Lloyd has pointed out before, Bachmann has long held delusional views on gas prices — taking credit for near - $ 2 gas in Minnesota after prices had plummeted due to the global recession.

CareerBuilder recently published a report with encouraging news from employers; 85 percent of employers said they are more understanding of employment gaps post-recession, and a whopping 94 percent said they wouldn't think less of a candidate who took a lower - level position during the recession than they had previously held.

When the recession fully took hold in 2008, many lawyers cut back even more on their number of employees, anticipating a decrease in the number of new clients who were able to pay their fees for divorce.

It's already a well - known fact that after almost non-existent speculative development during the recession, building industrial projects without leases in place is now a trend that has taken hold in most major markets.