Sentences with phrase «about economic interests»

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Or, do the economic positives we hear each day about low interest rates, low unemployment, low inflation, a healthy banking sector, rising real - estate prices, technology improvements, protection of resources, renewable energy and the rise of India — among others — suggest that any downturn or crisis will merely be a short - term market correction, with the kind of economic rebound we saw following the 2008 crisis?

Worries about the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates more aggressively to combat rising inflation should not overshadow the benefits of stronger economic growth, the billionaire co-founder of Blackstone Group told CNBC on Thursday.

EMC stockholders will receive about $ 33.15 per share in cash and a type of stock that is linked to «a portion of EMC's economic interest» in its VMware business, which will remain an independent, publicly traded company, the companies said in a statement Monday.

Cohn and his family members held about $ 220 million in Goldman stock, which he had to divest in order to resolve possible conflicts of interest before becoming White House economic adviser.

But unlike Krueger, Rosenberg told CNBC Wednesday that he believes the Fed is «behind the curve» on interest rates are relative to the progress of the economic recovery, and markets are on edge about it.

The Fed lowered its economic growth forecasts for this year and next year slightly, likely reflecting its concerns about interest rates.

With the global economy «floating on an ocean of credit,» the current acceleration of credit via central bank policies will likely produce a positive rate of real economic growth this year for most developed countries, PIMCO chief Bill Gross writes in his latest monthly commentary, but «the structural distortions brought about by zero bound interest rates will limit that growth and induce serious risks in future years.»

Although some are concerned about potential inflation and higher interest rates, we still enjoy an environment of synchronized global economic growth and muted macro risks.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of MesoEconomic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesoeconomic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

While writing broadly about economic issues, Rosalie's research interest focuses on the implications of technology and innovation with the goal of identifying policy gaps, misaligned incentive mechanisms, and assessing potential causes and solutions.

I need a serious break from the ugliness of DC health - care politics, so let's talk about three interesting and related economic questions: inflation, labor demand, and consumer spending.

As a Catholic professor of corporate law, I have a deep and abiding interest in what Catholic Social Thought has to say about the economy and economic regulation.

The recent burst of volatility has been unnerving, but it is important to remember that the macro environment of synchronized economic growth and muted macro risks remains solid, although some are concerned about potential inflation and higher interest rates.

Since the Fed's July meeting, the jobs market has improved but concern has grown about China's economic future, furthering uncertainty about when interest rates will increase, The Journal added.

Pompeo said the economic pressure on North Korea spearheaded by Trump «has led (Kim) to believe that it is in his best interests to come to the table to talk about denuclearization.»

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As the Fed tapers, many observers worry about the effect on the stock market, while others are worried about the risk of inflation or deflation and everybody is worried about the effect of higher interest rates on economic growth and for the bond market.

A delicate balance has to be maintained when speaking about these places, for we can not overlook the huge global economic interests which, under the guise of protecting them, can undermine the sovereignty of individual nations.

When O'Connor spoke to Shapiro, she dodged questions about her role in Lumen View, saying simply «I'm the inventor of the patent,» and refusing to talk about whether she had any economic interest in it.

Unfortunately for people who may be interested to stop by for tea and ask about economic conditions — as Chair of the Federal Reserve, Yellen now has a Federal Reserve Policesecurity detail, which makes her far less accessible.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

But modest economic growth and rising wages have led to concerns about rising inflation and pushed interest rates higher.

Over the first six weeks of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 10 %, as the prospect of interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, a slump in oil prices, and concerns about economic conditions in Europe and China caused the long - running bull market to stumble.

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I'm always dismayed, for example, by how confidently analyts and economists talk about the relationship between monetary policy and economic outcomes, when the fact is that the level of interest rates, changes in interest rates, and changes in the monetary base provide very little additional forecasting power for GDP, over and above forecasts based on lagged changes in GDP itself.

And yes, actually the market reaction has really being quite muted and I don't know whether this partly reflects the new economic norm, you know the flattening of the Phillips Curve, disruptive change, lower inflation the Fed talked about at the Jackson Hole Summit last year, something called Our Star which is going to lower long - term rate of equilibrium interest rates.

We think the speculation about a potential future tightening of monetary policy by the ECB — whether in the form of a tapering of bond purchases or a rise in interest rates — has moved too far ahead of the economic and political realities within the eurozone.

Some pointed to disillusionment about Obama's interest in economic liberalism, and others suggested an increased awareness about the political strength of major corporations and rising wealth inequality.

As for what this means for the timing of a Federal Reserve (Fed) rate hike, data about the U.S. economy on balance exceed the reasonable measures a «data dependent» Fed might require to move off of «emergency interest rate» levels, as BlackRock's proprietary «Yellen Index» of labor market / economic conditions shows in the chart below.

As a result, the Bank of Canada's current stance to leave interest rates unchanged given its concerns about the country's lacklustre economic growth could be an important catalyst for preferred share performance going forward — especially when combined with the U.S. Federal Reserve's projections for multiple rate hikes this year.

Since then, the broad market has essentially gone sideways, though capitalization - weighted indices such as the S&P 500 have recently clawed to new highs on enthusiasm about negative interest rates abroad (which I believe actually reflect fresh deterioration in global economic conditions across Britain, Europe, Japan, and China).

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TUTORIAL: The Austrian School Of Economics The Classical - Liberal Perspective The accepted mainstream view about central banks, such as the Federal Reserve, is that we need them to manage economic growth and ensure prosperity through interest rate manipulation and other interventions.

The «spread» between short - term and long - term rates (the yield curve) can tell us a lot about economic conditions and where interest rates may be headed next.

As bankers, we are concerned about growth and returns - regulators about safety and soundness - central bankers with the competing interests of systemic risk and economic growth - and politicians have to deal with significant public discourse.

So we Americans in the bottom 98 % are finally beginning to care about self - interest and economic survival?

Denominational leaders, they charge, are interested only in bringing about social, political and economic change.

If revisionists manage someday to recapture denominational offices and pulpits in large number, the churches will be less concerned to prescribe and implement theologically correct views and more interested in equipping people to do their own thinking about questions of economic policy.

You are ignorant in this regard because the US doesn't have economic or strategic interest in these countries and therefore it is rarely covered or talked about.

Instead of being left to rely on deductive theoretical formulations about the economic or political interests served by ideologies, we are offered attempts to spell out a credible set of social factors that relate the actual producers and disseminators of ideas with their social environment, with interested audiences, and with sequences of action that put ideas into effect.

Based on its assumptions about human beings, it argues that the greatest good of the greatest number is served best when each person works aggressively for his or her own economic interest.

So while Marx, writing away at the British Museum, was primarily concerned about economic theory, he also was interested in the relationship between the information people had and the ways they thought and acted.

Those who are involved in small groups often claim that these groups have influenced how they think on political and economic issues — for example, raising their interest in questions of peace and social justice or, in the case of conservative religious groups, generating ire about abortion and gay rights.

To put it very bluntly, it is the fact that people are not very interested, at least they are not interested for long, in hearing any man's opinions about all kinds of things political, social and economic; they are interested in trying to find out what the Bible has to say.

On a conceptual level, there is a keen interest within the business community evidenced by the fundamental debate about whether a business» sole role is to generate profits or whether businesses should be contributing more to society (World Economic Forum Leadership, 2015).

The book will be of interest to policy makers, researchers and others who want to learn more about the actions Australia needs to take to prepare for major economic, social, technological and environmental change.

Little, if any, written history about family life in the Kongo Kingdom before invasion and occupation by competing ideological and economic interests exists.

These systems of knowledge about the function of parliament seem to be better informed than attending to the minutae of either side of the house, neither of which represents the economic interests in work of the majority of voters.

But this also raises an interesting question: could a national government use this same digital tracking system to glean insights about the economy's health and general economic trends?

And while the two groups aren't anything like formal alliances, the economic interests within each group are more closely aligned than those across the divide, and hence it's easy to imagine the major disagreements about how to manage the European economy over the coming years falling more or less along this fault line.