Sentences with phrase «at economic reality»

Thinking about divorce means taking a hard look at economic reality.

Things have changed dramatically since then — 2008's stock market declines have hammered retirement nest eggs, forcing anyone approaching retirement to take a long, hard look at economic realities.

Not exact matches

Joe Seiner, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, recently told me he believes certifying Uber drivers as a class ignores the different «economic realities» that affect drivers who approach Uber as a full - time job or career and those who use it for occasional income supplementation.

If we are already late in an economic cycle when the tendency for company managements to employ a rosy spin on their numbers is at its most acute, then we should worry if this gap between opinion and reality is wider than in previous cycles.»

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.

Given that economic growth is languid at best and is likely slowing, the divergence between the stock market and economic reality can not be sustained.

Well, if you look at Sweden, reality just confirmed that beloved economic theory.

While reducing federal spending during an economic slowdown was not the President's preference, he recognized the political realities and undertook a series of negotiations with the Republican Speaker of the House, John Boehner, aimed at achieving a compromise plan to reduce the deficit over time through a combination of spending cuts and revenue increases.

Perhaps, as some argue, Trump channels the anxieties of a class whose economic and social standing is in demonstrable decline as a cynical ploy to win popularity — this is a man who once called the poor «morons» — while winking at the «establishment,» who can take comfort in knowing that this reality - television caricature of themselves actually shares their political opportunism, if not their economic values.

At this point, we must begin a survey of the ground realities and socio - economic generalities of peoples» lives worldwide, especially in Asia.

Would the vision of the leaders assembled at the Summit affirming their faith in globalization becoming benevolent in which economic and technological progress distributed to unite rather than divide the community is a reality or just plain rhetoric?

This ratings drive, on which fees for commercials are based, is the economic reality at the root of the problem.

At its best, the religious right reminded all of us that there are realities more important than political or economic success; that we are a nation under God, one that can be weighed in the balance and found wanting.

This ratings drive is the economic reality which in many ways lies at the root of the problem, at least in television.

But he voiced a message and a complaint which found an immediate and extraordinary response at every level of society, from that of the deepest spiritual experience to that of the most practical economic and political realities.

Cavanaugh, a professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas, examines four economic realities: the free market, consumerism, globalization, and scarcity.

And about economic realities — should the USA be so sensible as to re-direct the $ 10.2 million per day it hands the State of Israel (its military) to purchase more bombs, guns and weaponry to keep the Palestinians at bay and locked in prisons, or chased out of Palestine / Israel to so - called «safe havens», then I will readily agree to talk with anyone about economics and affordability of welcoming more strangers and people fleeing their land and homes.

Our society doesn't value (in a tangible financial way) supporting mothers staying at home, etc, so in the mean time, we have to just «deal» with our economic reality and choices or lack thereof.

He said the report came at a time when the State Government was in dire need of space for developmental projects that would improve the socio - economic wellbeing of its residents in line with the realities of present times, adding that such projects, when embarked upon, would help to reflate the economy and improve the GDP of the State.

In accepting this responsibility on behalf of his colleagues, Speaker Heastie has stepped forward at an incredibly important time for New York as a whole, and I look forward to working with him to enact an aggressive agenda that ensures economic opportunity for all, improves and reforms our education system, ensures justice in perception and in reality, and restores trust in our government.»

But a deep look at the Muslim community's developing economic and social realities challenges this.

However, he also expressed optimism that the Nigerian economy can never shut down totally but warned that «the shocks and gaps in the economy at the moment represent our current realities and we must find creative ways to navigate this harsh economic climate.

Even Jessica Asato's glancing reference to producer capture is at least useful both as metaphor for New Labour's corruption of earlier party structures (see above) and as a partial description of how economic reality has altered, assisted by New Labour, over the past 12 years, though she goes on to muddle the point.

I congratulate the many public and private partners that are making these homes a reality, including the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council, Mayor Miner, and our partners at Conifer Realty.

«But last week at Brighton the dinosaurs had broken out of their glass cases, their political DNA apparently uncontaminated by any contact with the reality of thirty years of global economic development ready to wreak havoc fighting the battles of the past using the language of the past, all over again, a sort of political version of Jurassic Park.»

The Vice President, Dr. Bawumia, who is the head of the country's economic management team, has been tasked with the responsibility of ensuring all key government projects aimed at making the concept of «Ghana Beyond Aid» a reality, but his predecessor, believes the government has not done enough to show it is serious about the concept.

You had Nick Clegg talking about the necessity of cuts and you then had Vince Cable at his sage - of - the - nation best, setting out the grim reality of the economic situation and blaming Labour for its part in it.

«These realities are coming at the same time as other countries are increasing their R&D investments, in spite of similar economic conditions, responding to the clear relationship between a nation's research capacity, its economic strength, and the well - being of its people.

The former have been able to use their scientists and engineers for rapid economic growth, whereas the so - called developing countries (which in reality are not developing at all) are relegated to the role of consumers of technological products.

Environmental management and the challenge of achieving sustainable development is a global problem that requires looking at the political, economic, cultural, and educational phenomenas of the current paradigm, from a poly - logic phenomenology that perceive different levels of Reality which form the world and cosmos humanly known.

This lesson in the realities of the economic recession was the culmination of a three - month student restaurant project organized by Martha Fisher, a 3rd - grade teacher at Westerly School in Bay Village, Ohio.

It looks at some of the basics and then covers an ethical look at production around the world and the realities of what a 21st Century economic world looks like.

Violence against women is not just what is happening to individual women, we see that the educational, economic, social and cultural aspects of the current systems, at local, national and global levels must intentionally work with a transformational agenda to be able to achieve this urgently needed change, that not only robs women and societies of peace, but does not allow the qualitative development for the new paradigm to become a reality in our life time.

Recently the Broader ~ Bolder Approach to Education (BAA) ~ an initiative at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) ~ released Market - Oriented Reformers Rhetoric Trumps Reality.

More importantly, they fail to deal with the reality that the nation's education crisis — including its failures to help kids become literate — is at the heart of the growing social and economic inequality.

In a July 22, 2014, article «Poverty and the perception of poverty — how both matter for schooling outcomes,» Andreas Schleicher, director of education and skills at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), argues that perceptions often matter more than reality, with distressing consequences.

«These leaders must be equipped to work with the dramatic and active demographic shifts and upset the evolving political, economic, and cultural realities that impede administrators from achieving their potential,» said Dr. Dawn Williams Salters, chair of the department of educational leadership and policy studies at HUSOE.

In fact, although educators might not want to recognize it, the current economic calamity should drive home the reality that the economic forces at play in the world dwarf the effects of education.

«Most Likely to Succeed» pushes us to radically re-imagine American education so that we better equip students for current and future economic realities by bringing us along as it dives deeply into life and learning at CES affiliate High Tech High.

Under both the IASA and NCLB, each state wrote its own academic standards and developed its own tests, leading to wide variation in content and rigor.11 But with the global economy growing increasingly competitive and connected, two - thirds of jobs will require at least some college training by 2020.12 State leaders, acknowledging this economic reality, began to recognize that schools needed to expect more of students for them to succeed and that these expectations need not be dramatically different among states.13

The sad reality of our economic reality in the United States is that there is an enormous amount of debt, and this is at the state and federal level.

If today's economic reality is such that no buyer exists at a mutually attractive price, then the Board has a fiduciary duty to, at a basic minimum, explore alternative options which may include utilizing the cash to make investments unrelated to the current operations of Paragon.

Juicy Excerpt: The reality is that we may end up someday looking back at this economic crisis as the best thing that ever happened to us.

I believe that there are two competing forces at work: (1) the Get Rich Quick impulse that exists in the heart of every human (and, thus, every investor); and (2) the economic realities that must exact financial pain on those who fail to rein in their Get RIch Quick impulses if the market is to continue to function.

A good example of the difficulty in prescribing GAAP rules that reflect economic reality revolves around accounting for financial instruments, whether those instruments should be carried at amortized cost less impairments, or at lower of cost or fair value (with fair value usually equaling market price).

At any moment in time the market can become disconnected from economic reality.

And in reality, Japan's (dire) fiscal situation will continue to defy economic logic — because at this point, Japan's debt burden isn't just its own problem any longer, it's fast becoming everybody's problem...

I believe that there are two competing forces at work: (1) the Get Rich Quick impulse that exists in the heart of every human (and, thus, every investor); and (2) the economic realities that must exact financial pain on those who fail...

At such a time, there would be an inclination to clean up the balance sheet, because no one would see the income statement effect from adjusting values closer to economic reality.

In a country where someone can purchase a home at a 3.5 - 4 % mortgage rate, it should be possible for students to invest in themselves, their education, and contribute towards their country's prosperity without being shackled to student debt burdens that are not aligned with today's economic realities.