Sentences with phrase «as policies focus»

For a policy that is supposedly focussed on quality, it seems very well disguised as a policy focussed on costs.

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Rep. Tim Ryan (D - Ohio) discusses what he expects from President Trump on gun control and policy change as well as his tour in the Midwest focusing on venture capital.

European markets closed lower on Tuesday as investors focused on data and earnings while keeping an eye on Trump's immigration policy.

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Ylan Q. Mui joined CNBC in February 2017 as a reporter focusing primarily on economic and regulatory policy.

The former White House senior policy adviser for infrastructure has joined real estate - focused venture capital firm Camber Creek as a partner.

Voters liked the pitch, even though, as Abe admitted, «it's very rare for monetary policy to be the focus of an election.»

The administration has other councils focused on other policy areas, such as developing a competitive income tax code and streamlining burdensome regulation.UTC strongly supports the goals of each of these advisory committees as a way of ensuring and enhancing America's growth in the decades to come.

But allies acknowledged Kelly's receding power and said he's trying to keep his head down and focus on policy, such as the plan to mobilize the National Guard along the U.S. border with Mexico.

Hammond's team reportedly wanted to focus on macroeconomic measures that will ensure the economy runs as efficiently as possible, while Theresa May wanted the statement to include the sort of microeconomic policies that were a hallmark of former Chancellor George Osborne's statements.

For each topic, there are sections labeled «What Happened,» appealing to clarity and accountability, as well as «What We Are Doing» to adjust the focus toward moving forward and policy change.

After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.

Understandably, in the wake of revelations that a shady firm working for Donald Trump's presidential campaign got backdoor access to as many as 87 million Facebook profiles, much of the questioning focused on Facebook's privacy policies.

As the Fed policy meeting threw up no surprises with rates left unchanged, the focus shifted back to simmering trade tensions...

A better policy focus on those areas has a better chance to dramatically alter poverty than the new math being peddled as scientific fact.

Indeed, the Google decision seems harsh to American lawyers in part because, unlike U.S. antitrust law, European competition policy focuses on harm to companies as well as to consumers.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research group that focuses on reducing poverty, 20 million children in the United States (nearly 1 in 4) will have received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits — better known as food stamps — in 2016.

Higher volatility is likely across financial markets, especially in the first and second quarters as new policies and their implementation come into focus.

In this mindset, fiscal policy should focus primarily on longer - run goals such as economic efficiency and equity.

That is where our focus lies as we remain committed to vigorously enforcing our policies to protect people's information.»

Last fall, reflation became the rage as many governments focused on progrowth policies thanks to political pressure that culminated with the U.S. elections in November.

The focus of my presentation was the emergence of homelessness in Canada as a pressing public policy area in the 1980s.

As the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy requireAs the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy requireas one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy required?

As they become common, the focus will move to international payments, resulting in new challenges (risks, formats, policies and practices) that will arise.

While inflation - targeting regimes share a number of similarities, most importantly the focus on an inflation rate as the objective of monetary policy, there are a number of differences in terms of their practical implementation.

For example, there are environmentally focused funds, funds that concentrate their efforts on finding companies who have sound corporate governance policies, others that look at the impact a business has on society as a whole, and this is just to name a few.

That is where our focus lies as we remain committed to vigorously enforcing our policies to protect people's information,» said Paul Grewal, VP and Deputy General Counsel, in a statement provided to TechCrunch.

G - 20 Finance Ministers and central bankers meeting in Baden - Baden over the weekend dropped a long - standing reference to the pursuit of free and open trade and the rejection of protectionism in their official commnique, a move many saw as a swipe at U.S. - focused trade policies pursued by the Donald Trump administration.

gas world, and so I would argue that a policy focusing on CCS as opposed to a broader policy on de-carbonizing electricity through a carbon price would lead to more expensive electricity than need be the case in a carbon - constrained world.

At IPWatchdog.com our focus is on the business, policy and substance of patents and other forms of intellectual property, such as copyrights and trademarks.

As a result, much of Canada's monetary policy framework is focused on establishing and maintaining the credibility of the Bank of Canada.

«That is where our focus lies as we remain committed to vigorously enforcing our policies to protect people's information,» he said.

The timing of Bernanke's easing raises the stakes for the Fed's four remaining policy meetings this year as investors focus on whether the central bank will provide stimulus for 2013 to help the economy overcome the impact of the fiscal tightening due to take hold in January, said Vincent Reinhart, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley.

There are hotspots globally, and there is policy uncertainty in the United States, but again, we've been focused on the emerging market theme because we have found that economies that we used to think of as politically unstable have actually proved to be less so as they pursue more orthodox types of policies.

In trying to provide investors with information that «is not in the current stock price» and therefore giving them an «edge», many Wall Street, and independent investment research providers have begun focusing on such areas as «forensic» accounting, «channel checking», public policy analysis, «lie detection» on conference calls, data mining and «expert» networking.

It was an opportunity for Mr. Xi to present himself as a foil to President Trump, who has rejected globalization and focused on an «America First policy,» targeting China, in particular, with a series of protectionist moves.

As for policy, he continues to focus on his four key issues — roads, debt, taxes and the arena deal.

A pickup in manufacturing in July, aided by government support policies, was good news for China - focused ETFs, as the S&P 500 Index fell 57.31 points, or 2.88 percent, to close at 1,930.67 for the week.

Based on the near - term outlook for real rates, as well as uncertainty over Brexit, rising populism in Europe and Trump's trade and foreign policies, Metals Focus analysts see gold testing $ 1,475 an ounce this year.

Hence, a flat yield curve can be seen as a yardstick of ineffective policy normalization focusing on the «wrong part of the term structure.»

She also found a position as an online English teacher at Education First, a policy and consulting agency focused on educational issues.

As a Policy Associate for the Business Council of Canada, Trevor Kennedy supports the Council's work on international, trade and fiscal issues, with a focus on the Asia and North America.

While in Europe, Claudia completed internships and with the Mission of Canada to the European Union, Embassy of Canada to Denmark, as well as the OECD where she focused on international trade, economic development, and SME policy.

He focuses on delivering analysis of monetary policies and macroeconomic developments globally as defined by fundamentals, market sentiment and technical analysis.

Powell has in the past expressed a view that Fed communication «should do more to emphasize the uncertainty that surrounds all economic forecasts, should downplay short - term tactical questions such as the timing of the next rate increase, and should focus the public's attention instead on the considerations that go into making policy across the range of plausible paths for the economy.»

As a policy - focused, but non-partisan, organization The Vancouver Board of Trade has worked to positively engage both of the leading candidates for mayor and council, noted Black.

I had hoped that we would see a «new» Donald Trump as a general - election candidate — one who would focus on jobs and the economy, tone down his rhetoric, develop more thoughtful policies and, yes, apologize for ill - tempered rants.

But C.D. Howe Institute research vice president Finn Poschmann said Poloz's background as head of Export Development Canada could signal a shift in the central bank's focus from monetary policy alone to encompass broader issues.

The Revolution of 1989 in east and central Europe» a world - historical series of events ignited by moral passion, informed by moral conviction, sustained by deft and morally sophisticated politics, and supported by a resolute demonstration that the Soviet Union could not compete with the United States in a serious arms race» raised further questions about classic foreign - policy realism and its narrow focus on «hard power» as the analytic prism for understanding both the dynamics of world politics and the exigencies of American foreign policy.

Although dealing also with questions such as economics and foreign policy, the addresses focus on the «consistent ethic of life» theme that he first set forth in 1983.