Sentences with phrase «about a decade at»

There have been no meaningful discussions around Senate reform for, I would suggest, about a decade at least.

Yes we have spent about a Decade at our new stadium.

Not exact matches

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

«I can at most venture a personal judgment, based on some examination of the historical evidence, that the initial effects [on employment] of a higher and unanticipated rate of inflation last for something like two to five years; that this initial effect then begins to be reversed; and that a full adjustment to the new rate of inflation takes about as long for employment as for interest rates, say, a couple of decades.»

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

CFOs are more optimistic about the future of the U.S. economy than they've been at any time this decade, according to a survey out this morning from Deloitte.

Trudeau's about - face is rooted in the Liberal vision of a global economy at the beginning of a decades - long transition from fossil fuels to clean energy technology, says Jim Carr, minister of natural resources.

The low - interest - rate environment has allowed it to borrow to fund operations at levels that are about half the 10 percent interest rate the company paid for its financing more than a decade ago, says Clark Balderson, the company's chairman and chief financial officer.

The labor market is tighter than it has been in decades, with unemployment near an all - time low at 4.1 % and unfilled job openings near an all - time high at about 6 million.

Researchers at the University of Michigan who followed 2,300 adults for up to a decade reported in 2008 that even common work irritants interfere with good rest more than long hours, night shifts or fears about job loss.

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

At the time that was a record number — but it's about to be broken, more than a decade later, because those passports are now up for renewal.

MONTREAL — Canada's aerospace industry could lose about $ 10.5 billion worth of contracts over several decades if the federal government ultimately decides not to purchase the controversial F - 35 Stealth Fighter, says a senior executive at Lockheed Martin.

About two decades later, the Firearm Owners» Protection Act effectively banned newly manufactured machine guns from being purchased by civilians at all.

«We're hugely unexcited about that,» Ray says, recalling the long litany of failed startups over the past two decades that have tried to make a go at offering similar high - speed Internet or cable TV - like services wirelessly.

But two decades of attending both horrible and excellent holiday parties thrown by my clients have taught me a few things about throwing an office holiday party that have nothing to do with flowers and decorations and customized invitations purchased at Staples.

«When I joined the company in 1992, we used to talk about our mission as putting a PC in every home, and by the end of the decade we have done that, at least in the developed world,» said Nadella.

As John Herrman at The Awl described so thoroughly in a recent piece he wrote about the disintermediation of journalism by the web and social media, one of the biggest shifts in media of the past decade has been the ability for anyone — journalist or not — to pick up a phone and share information with vast numbers of people.

Nassar spent nearly three decades at USA Gymnastics before being fired in 2015 after complaints about his behavior.

That's according to David Stafford, executive VP of human resources at Michelin, a company with about 22,000 North American employees, many of whom he says have worked for the company for decades.

A decade ago, residents of northern European countries such as the Netherlands and Sweden were going online at a faster rate than in just about any other area in the world, thanks in part to substantial investments in broadband infrastructure.

About a decade ago, two clients of Kevin Meehan, CFP and regional president, Chicago, at Wealth Enhancement Group, presented themselves as a responsible couple in their 30s trying to build their wealth.

And while she declined to elaborate on her trip to prison more than a decade ago, she said she will at some point: «I have a lot to say about it.

Democrats call the Republican proposal a giveaway to corporations at the expense of the middle class, issuing dire warnings about the $ 1 trillion or more it is projected to add to federal budget deficits over a decade.

It describes how Exxon conducted cutting - edge climate research decades ago and then, without revealing all that it had learned, worked at the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed.

At the Goldman Sachs annual Private Internet Company Conference, we asked attendees about the technology trends that will define the way we live and work in the next decade.

«It's not about getting any public recognition for her giving, it's to help touch and transform individual lives,» said Laura Arrillaga - Andreessen, a philanthropist and lecturer on philanthropy at Stanford who has been close friends with Ms. Powell Jobs for two decades.

At the SIC 2018, Pat shared his four decades of experience analyzing political and social trends to inform attendees about what he sees coming down the pike.

Just look at our current political situation: those worried about Trump have to contend with the fact that the power of the executive branch has been dramatically expanded over the decades; we place immense responsibility and capability in the hands of one person, forgetting that said responsibility and capability is not so easily withdrawn if we don't like the one wielding it.

It says something about the magnitude of the event that it played out during the tenure of two central bank Governors, each of whom were in the role for a decade, and will likely still be an important issue, in the early stages at least, for the next Governor.

Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!

In that vein, Italy liberalized its financial markets and privatized about 15 percent of its economy in the period leading up to monetary union at the start of this decade.

At the time, Ben and I had been investing and operating in the city for over a decade and we were consumed by a belief that we could make a real difference if we stepped away from the traditional model - a model that we felt was dominated by lip service about «hands - on» investing, but that was sorely lacking in GPs who were willing to spend real management company resources to build capabilities that mattered.

Microsoft, which closed Monday at $ 30.74, has traded around that level for much of the last decade, never coming close to its all - time peak of about $ 60 in late December 1999.

Rubin's curious point in the OpEd is that it wasn't «courses in economics or finance» from his days at Harvard that prepared him «for working at Goldman Sachs and in the government» (notice the almost decade - long stretch at Citigroup is completely missing) but instead «the key was Professor Demos's philosophy course and the conversations about existentialism in coffee shops around campus.»

Despite some investors waxing rhapsodic about things like «mass collaboration and sharing enabled by technology and global communications networks,» S&P 500 Index revenues have grown at a nominal rate of just 3.2 % annually over the past 20 years, and just 1.6 % annually over the past decade, and that includes the benefit of stock buybacks.

Despite reports that she has since been paid $ 130,000 to keep quiet about their affair from more than a decade ago, at the time, Trump didn't tell Stormy to lay low about their encounter.

Despite having been in the investment business for over a decade at that point, most of my reading had been about other value managers, so I was excited about learning from traders who used completely different investment philosophies than we used at Oakmark.

These are helpful.You are right that market failures have hit elder popluation in heavy way in past decade or so, and on top of that the fed locks interest at artificial rate low, so if we did save like our wise elder and financial advisors told us to do, we now get about nothing at all in interest return on those life savings.

So when we think about where we're at with financial markets here in 2017 things are strange and not like they used to be if you'd go back a decade earlier.

At the annual shareholders meeting this year, Buffett explained that he thought Berkshire Hathaway's intrinsic value grew at an average annual rate of about 10 % over the last decade, but he warned that future returns would be lower if interest rates remained near generational lowAt the annual shareholders meeting this year, Buffett explained that he thought Berkshire Hathaway's intrinsic value grew at an average annual rate of about 10 % over the last decade, but he warned that future returns would be lower if interest rates remained near generational lowat an average annual rate of about 10 % over the last decade, but he warned that future returns would be lower if interest rates remained near generational lows.

With the birth of my first child recently I began thinking about planting a dividend tree for him at birth so that he may sit in its shade in a couple decades.

There's no question that investors have become nearly frantic in their verbal arguments about the permanence of elevated profit margins (which is something that Benjamin Graham observed at other market peaks, and warned against decades ago).

They have a database that's about three decades ahead of everybody in the space, and why do I think Almaden is a compelling proposition at these levels?

Loomis tells some amazing stories about her many decades working at Fortune magazine including some excellent career advice.

He was recognized in 2015 at the Edmonton New Media Awards (the Yeggies) with the Best Political / Current Affairs Award and a Special Lifetime Achievement Award for a full decade of blogging about Alberta politics.

Nassar, a former faculty member and physician at an on - campus clinic at Michigan State University was sentenced in February to up to 125 years in prison after some 200 young women testified about decades of abuse at his hands.

«If they were at the same 21 percent share of corporate profits as they had averaged in the two decades before these cuts, the federal government would have about $ 25 billion more in corporate tax revenues annually.

The graybeards at the ACA conference all agreed that a decade ago, there were only about 20 angel groups in North America.