Sentences with phrase «as some economists think»

But if oil prices and other rising costs push up inflation, as some economists think they will, interest rates will probably go up, too.

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Or as Stephen Gordon puts it, academic economists «generally remain open to the idea of using well - thought - out infrastructure projects to promote long - term growth.»
«We happen to think the Bank of Canada may not manage to pull off quite as many as the Fed,» says Eric Lascelles, chief economist at RBC Global Asset Management.
Germany is often described as the «powerhouse» of Europe, but the health of the world's fourth largest economy is not as rosy as most people think, according to one economist.
«Maybe we could start thinking about freelancing not as where you're being pushed out of a traditional job, but something different,» Horowitz told an audience at a recent Economist - sponsored event.
As long as Alberta continues to expand — and most economists think it will — then this bank should be a good beAs long as Alberta continues to expand — and most economists think it will — then this bank should be a good beas Alberta continues to expand — and most economists think it will — then this bank should be a good bet.
Health Care: «I don't think there is much doubt as to where Senator Clinton is on the issue of health care,» says Raymond J. Keating, chief economist for the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, a small - business advocacy group based in Vienna, Virginia.
Lehmann and Barrow's views often get drowned out by the bears, such as Gluskin Sheff chief economist David Rosenberg, who think we're headed for another recession.
Moody's economist Mark Zandi, who has been a big supporter of President Obama, as well as John McCain, has said he thinks Trump's economic policies would lead to a recession.
«If you think of the government as a business, I think they have to manage their funds prudently to get the most bang for their buck,» said ANZ economist Weiwen Ng.
«We still think the dollar is probably going to be relatively soggy, at least against the majors, probably against the emerging economies to a significant degree as well,» Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, said.
While most economists thought short - term interest rates would end 2016 at 1.2 %, we said rates would go much higher than that, perhaps as high as 2.6 %.
But as we mentioned above, many economists think that this tax is effectively identical to an invoice - credit VAT in terms of the actual economic activity taxed.
You might also think there wouldn't really be such a thing as a Democratic economist or a Republican economist.
As far as I know, you're the only economist who even thinks this is a problem (maybe Joe StiglitzAs far as I know, you're the only economist who even thinks this is a problem (maybe Joe Stiglitzas I know, you're the only economist who even thinks this is a problem (maybe Joe Stiglitz).
As an aside, most people, including unfortunately most economists, typically assume that the current account is independent and the capital account, if they think of it at all, simply adjusts to maintain the balance, but this is an extremely confused way to think about the balance of payments.
He is one of the most hard - core proponents of Hyman Minsky, and regular readers know that I think of Minsky as one of the greatest economists since Keynes.
But few trade economists would say that a trade war is good or that it should be sought out; most think of trade wars as something to be avoided — or, at most, endured for the sake of protecting an industry that needs a helping hand from the government.
(Most economists on Bay Street think that will be early next year, perhaps as early as January.)
But what do you think about the decision of most economists between 1820 and 1970 to represent the economy as a set of perfectly competitive markets, because a model of perfect competition was what they knew how to build?
No responsible economist thinks that this package, including its giveaways to the most affluent, will somehow produce so much economic growth as to offset a $ 2.5 trillion hole in the budget.
As I expect to discuss in subsequent posts, much of what economists thought they knew about macroeconomic policy needs to be reassessed in light of events.
The problem, as the economist Rudiger Dornbusch once observed, is that «the crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought
As economists, we naturally think of nominal interest rates as a combination of expected inflation and the real interest ratAs economists, we naturally think of nominal interest rates as a combination of expected inflation and the real interest ratas a combination of expected inflation and the real interest rate.
Economists think of GARP as basically the test which asks, «Are humans responding in a rational way to prices?»
I hope to explore this properly in another note soon, but suffice to say for the time being that the typical framework economists use to think about inflation - which they proxy by changes in the CPI - is narrow, incomplete and fails to do justice to the richness of inflation as a concept.
As a 28 - year - old economist with a master's degree, Marshall joined the Rand Corp., a nonprofit think tank that had just been created to perform research for the government.
This is useful to think about as bitcoin climbs ever higher, despite warnings from people like Nobel Prize - winning economists Robert Shiller and Joseph Stiglitz, who says it has many characteristics of a dangerous bubble.
Economists like Stanley, who expects the corporate tax cut to lift wages over time, think it will happen indirectly as companies channel their tax savings into machinery, computers and software, making workers productive and leading to higher pay.
«I never thought I would see the day when the dollar would be thrown under the bus, as happened [November 3] at the conclusion of the FOMC [Federal Open Market Committee] meeting,» says David Gilmore, partner and economist at Essex, Connecticut — based Foreign Exchange Analytics.
Economist and international trade professor Mike Moffatt will join Canada 2020, Canada's leading, independent progressive think - tank, as Director of Policy & Research starting January 8, 2018.
SA: As an Austrian school economist, I do not think we can make accurate timeline predictions in matters of human action.
Economists as economists give little thought to the reasons that production in Indiana is more expensive or to the consequences of the closure to the facEconomists as economists give little thought to the reasons that production in Indiana is more expensive or to the consequences of the closure to the faceconomists give little thought to the reasons that production in Indiana is more expensive or to the consequences of the closure to the factory town.
The economists whose thought was shaped by the industrial revolution argue that there are no limits or, at least, that any limits there may be are so remote as to be irrelevant.
They are familiar with Marxist thinking as are few Western economists.
The early economists thought of the economic actors chiefly as individuals and small businesses.
Of course, as economists know, homo economicus is an abstraction, but we can not think of human beings in general without abstraction.
Last month, a survey of 200 Chinese institutional investors by the Economist Intelligence Unit, commissioned by US financial services giant State Street, found that 62 per cent of respondents think the renminbi will surpass the US dollar as the top international reserve currency.
You need to think of Wenger as an economist and not a football manager.
and sad truth is we only need a couple more real quality signings... but seems wenger is already digging his heals in... i think he still believes that diaby is the man for defensive midfield, that arteta can still run the mid field that grioud will finally come good in epl or that sonogo will bully other defences... none of these assumptions is grounded in reality (that s the problem with having an economist as a football manager)... and there is no excuse for overpaid professional athletes to be exhausted after a couple of competitive games..
«The Poverty Clinic,» [PDF] March 21, 2011 «In the view of Burke and the researchers she has been following, many of the problems that we think of as social issues — and therefore the province of economists and sociologists — might better be addressed on the molecular level.»
In Helping Children Succeed, I write about a new generation of researchers — neuroscientists, psychologists, and economists — who are questioning the idea that character strengths should be thought of as skills at all.
Economists refer to these as non-cognitive skills, psychologists call them personality traits, and the rest of us sometimes think of them as character.
If you talk to economists, they call it non-cognitive skills, psychologists use the term personality traits, neuroscientists call it executive functions and educationists think of it as character.»
Andrew Haldane, the Bank of England's free - thinking Chief Economist, characterised the relationship between modern banks and the state as a «doom loop».
«As an economist, I think he could relax policy, but he clearly doesn't believe that.
Former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg said it's «pure fantasy to think that the tax bill will lead to significantly higher wages and growth, as Republicans have promised,» adding: «Had Congress actually listened to executives, or economists who study these issues carefully, it might have realized that.»
As you mentioned, there are several Marxist currents, due to the fact that Marx's analysis & thoughts has affected many economists, politicians, analysts, etc..
But economists generally think those mandates — dubbed Renewable Portfolio Standards or Clean Energy Standards — may not lower emissions as effectively as would imposing emissions limits directly.
In fact, Germany hopes to develop technology to store excess electricity from renewable resources as gas to be burned later, a scheme known as «power to gas,» according to economist and former German politician Rainer Baake, now director of an energy transition think tank Agora Energiewende.
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