Not exact matches
The euro,
which has been knocked by weaker - than - expected
economic data and growing doubts
about when the European Central Bank will normalize its monetary
policy, fell 0.67 percent against the greenback to $ 1.998.
His
economic policies, known as «Abenomics,» have attracted much attention, mostly because of the impact they've had on Japan's yen,
which has depreciated
about 21 percent since mid-November - just before Abe came to power.
Given these positive surprises, and because monetary
policy must be forward - looking to achieve our inflation target, Governing Council's discussions focused on three main issues: first, the extent to
which recent strength is signalling stronger
economic momentum in Canada and globally; second, how heightened levels of uncertainty, particularly
about US tax and trade
policies, should be incorporated in our outlook; and third, how much excess capacity the economy currently has, and the growth rate of potential output going forward.
Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies
economic development
policy, said companies cared most
about a talented work force,
which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.
The relationship between monetary
policy and financial stability may depend on the specific
economic conditions in
which we find ourselves.6 Moreover, the processes resulting in financial cycles, with periods of unsustainable debt buildup, occasional crises and periods of deleveraging, are not well captured by standard models.7 We have more work to do before we can be fully confident
about our conclusions.
«I think the real key is equities are all
about confidence, and... my analysis is probably based on Trump's
policies toward trade and immigration,
which are very much a risk to
economic growth, while his other
policies on tax and fiscal spending are positive for growth.
Just as the events of the 1970s and emergence of stagflation throughout the industrial world, led to new
policy paradigms, I believe that recent events will force us to develop new approaches to thinking
about economic fluctuations and inflation
which will, in turn, drive major changes in thinking
about fiscal and monetary
policy.
I remember meetings as far back as 2008, for example involving senior United States or European government officials looking to be debriefed on the Chinese economy, in
which the foreign (and some Chinese) analysts present spoke jauntily
about the great success of China's growth
policies and the brilliant future ahead, while many of the Chinese economists present were much more cautious and even gloomy as they discussed the sheer intractability of China's
economic distortions.
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.»
VICTORIA — New Democrats are introducing a bill calling for the creation of a sustainable development board
which would report to
policy makers
about key indicators of
economic, environmental and social progress.
Though the US yield curve remained some way from inversion —
which historically is often cited as signaling an impending recession — investors were relatively sanguine
about the significance of its flattening, with many arguing that low long - term yields were more reflective of central - bank
policies and the weak inflationary environment than dimmer
economic prospects.
Since April, the Bank of Canada had been talking
about a potential rate increase in the context of an «
economic expansion» that failed to achieve the velocity that
policy makers expected, keeping a lid on inflation,
which the central bank is mandated to contain at an annual rate of
about 2 per cent.
Neoliberal
policies over the past three decades have generated a remarkable income concentration (for
which read «inequality») but have brought
about mediocre
economic growth.
The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting
policy,
about race — both of
which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and
economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.
Understanding these internal political dynamics also raises interesting questions
about which Western foreign
policy strategies are likely to be most effective in encouraging
economic reform within China.
Business leaders and top analysts recently interviewed by the best - selling financial newspaper in Brazil were quite clear
about Ms Rousseff's capital sins on the
economic front: heavy - handed statist measures and misguided
policies which drove the country into recession.
His second stint at the business department under the Labour government was marked by fresh thinking
about industrial
policy,
which I wish he had had the opportunity to develop; and he seems more willing than some to acknowledge that the pre-2008
economic model was flawed.
While much is made of the continuity between Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Diana Abbott and others with the legacy projects of the Labour left, and the absurd attempts by self - proclaimed «moderates» to conjure up the ghost of the early 1980s; the far more significant phenomenon is the discontinuity with the establishment consensus
about austerity economics, and the development of
economic policies by John McDonnell and his team
which commit a future Labour government to calibrated state intervention for a capitalist economy that works.
The prime minister went into a standard denunciation of Labour's
economic policies which she said were not «kind» or «fair» to anybody - but the questions
about Windrush were far from over as an SNP MP, Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable and a furious Yvette Cooper kept up the pressure on her (see below)
If a country finds a way to meet the basic needs of women by taking loans that the whole society must pay, but the national constitution, and the various
policies and services do not show the timely commitment for equity and equality, the chance to eradicate poverty and hunger will only be
about the alleviation of these two major indicators of real development and sustainability It is then urgent and important not to fall in such a trap,
which only comes to add to the financial and
economic indebtedness of the society, and nations, to say the least, and to maintain the system of inequality and impoverishment as it basically exist..
Last Tuesday, Eduardo Porter — writer of the
Economic Scene column for The New York Times — wrote an excellent article, from an economics perspective,
about that
which is happening with our current obsession in educational
policy with «Grading Teachers by the Test.»
I recently asked whether the world is poised to enter an Obama - style «trance» on climate
policy given the focus on
economic turmoil and plunge in oil prices,
which have in the past seemed synchronized with concerns
about transforming energy
policy.
But is it not also irresponsible to allow debate
about what looks like a disastrous range of climate and energy
policies —
policies which have pushed up the price of energy, leaving people poorer, in colder homes, and causing other
economic effects, none of
which are good?
Simply improving messaging in accordance with recommendations of psychologists or following the recommendations of economists to create
economic incentives to engage in less GHG producing behavior will not likely create strong citizen support for climate change
policies unless citizens better understand that the narrative created by opponents of climate change
policies about high levels of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable harm to the economy from the adoption of climate
policies is not only false but has been manufactured by fossil fuel companies and other entities
which have
economic interests in continuing high levels of fossil fuel consumption.
The site could be improved if it included a reference to the IPCC discussion in Chapters 3 and 4 of Working Group III's recent report
which, among other things, identifies ethical limitations of
economic arguments
about climate
policies and only a limited number of considerations that should be considered in determining what equity means.
This phenomenon is partly attributable to the fact that
economic interests opposed to US climate change
policies have skillfully and successfully framed the US climate change debate as a matter
about which there is insufficient scientific evidence or too much adverse impact on the US economy to warrant action.
They rail on
about the potential complicity of environmental NGOs in the death of millions through the opposition of these NGOs to support the use of chlorine - based pesticides, but they are completely silent on the
economic and military
policies of western nations (and that includes Europe as well)
which are driving and maintaining poverty and
which are killing thousands of people every day and whgich have probably killed many more people than malaria has done since the 1970s.
Despite adverse
economic conditions as well as uncertainty
about future Federal energy
policy, wind generators continue to represent a significant share of capacity additions in the electric power industry,
which totaled 16,409 MW in 2010.
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Economic Policy Uncertainty Index,
which measures the degree to
which businesses and households are uncertain
about the economy.