Sentences with phrase «at policy makers»

The document is divided into four chapters: chapters 1 and 2 are aimed at policy makers with information on why and how to invest in measures that strengthen the understanding of urban risk.

Another recent video by Clean Air Task Force is aimed at policy makers, and highlights the industry's release of 9 million tons of invisible pollutants every year, including footage of methane and volatile organic compounds shown escaping from a hydrocarbon storage tank.

The paper is aimed squarely at policy makers, and «can be used as resources to educate local, national and civic leaders in your community».

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Policy makers would have been negligent if they ignored history and left borrowing costs at an emergency setting — the emergency is long over.

Of course Kashkari ignores that the «best judgment» of Fed policy makers has been widely criticized - and not just by Austrians who oppose any sort of Fed policy at all.

Anything lower risked screwing up financial markets, or so policy makers believed at the time.

Tax specialists and policy makers speculate that a possible plan would allow a capped amount to be tax - free on the sale of your principal residence with any proceeds over this amount to be taxed as capital gains in your tax bracket at the time of sale.

Thus, it might have at least a little hope of a broad - based, albeit hardly ideal, appeal to some of the various groups vying for influence over the directions which policy makers choose to take.

Expectations are rising that Canada has entered a prolonged economic stagnation, an outcome policy - makers seek to avoid at all costs.

With his first interest rate announcement this week, Poloz's run as central policy maker at the Bank of Canada is officially underway.

In an oblique reference to Trump and his social - media habits, Guajardo says policy - makers sometimes find themselves scrambling to respond to the thoughts of a superior shared publicly at 6 a.m.

The Governing Council left the benchmark interest rate unchanged at its ultra-low setting of 0.5 %, but policy makers were less than enthusiastic about the Canada's prospects.

Weighed against unemployment, which has dropped to a 16 - year low at 4.1 percent, that weakness has puzzled economists and made some policy makers declare the Fed should hold off on additional rate increases until prices respond more briskly.

The Bank of Canada wasn't so disenchanted that it felt a policy change was needed: policy makers left the benchmark interest rate unchanged at the ultra-low setting of 0.5 %.

Expect Poloz and other policy makers to have one last go at convincing markets to price Canada differently.

Policy makers now say it will take until the middle of 2018 before Canada's economy is generating output at a level that would put upward pressure on inflation, «materially later» than was previously expected.

For example, policy - makers at the federal level can conduct their own research on the effects of the sharing economy and pass it along to municipal and provincial authorities.

But that's what is being issued by Bank of England policy makers and their counterparts at the Bank of International Settlements.

Tal says while policy - makers have more information at their disposal than ordinary Canadians, as do banks, he believes even they don't have all that data they should.

While the content can seem a bit dense and academic at times — the essays are, after all, written by some of the nation's leading thinkers on business issues — the website is a potentially valuable resource for policy makers and anyone thinking about starting a new business.

Australia's central bank left its cash rate at 1.5 percent, a widely expected decision given policy makers have signaled a steady outlook.

«If we want to broaden people's knowledge by letting them work in different places, most firms have a policy of setting competitive wages in the places they come to,» said Mikael Norman, CFO at Sweden's Nobia, Europe's biggest kitchen maker.

Policy makers retain the means to lower borrowing costs, but the outlook would have to deteriorate markedly at this stage before they would be willing to do so.

In December, as Greek policy - makers approved yet another round of budget cuts — tough legislation that caps salaries at state - owned companies, cuts many state salaries by 10 % and diminishes collective bargaining power — some 20,000 protestors jammed the streets in the country's seventh general strike that year.

As Biselli said, «Without dramatic change, we are trending towards a $ 5 trillion problem, and I believe policy - makers, academics, clinicians and innovators all need to have a seat at the table.

They (policy makers) would like to see a bit of downside (in the euro) from the current levels,» said Martin Lakos, division director at Macquarie Private Wealth in Sydney.

Puerto Rico isn't big enough to cause systemic damage, and while the situation in China is troubling, the central bank's actions over the weekend at least show that policy makers are on alert.

We at the Bank of Canada are grappling with this question, and it is being debated by economists and policy - makers around the world.

The challenge for monetary policy makers is to look at this complex and changing picture of price changes and try to gauge the forces that are operating on underlying inflation and so judge the likely future path of overall inflation.

The Canadian economy benefitted from a recovery in the US and the emergence of China as a major global economy There is a lot at stake and Canada will not be immune to the consequences if policy makers in the EURO area and the U.S. fail to take decisive action.

Over at WaPo, wherein I argue that a) when we hit the next recession, many policy makers will point to our higher - than - average debt / GDP ratio as evidence that we have too little fiscal space to engage in offset fiscal stimulus, and b) those policy makers will be wrong.

What Canadian businesses and policy makers must do in the days ahead is take a clear look at the deep - rooted changes taking place in the energy economy.

China's consumer inflation remained weak in December, while price declines at the factory gate level continued to deepen, suggesting weakness in the world's second - largest economy but giving policy makers more room to take easing measures.

It is exactly because of this global uncertainty and a secular decline in global growth that Canadian policy makers need to look at what can be done internally in Canada to strengthen growth.

At the same time, the policy makers said the central bank should continue to support favorable financial conditions needed to sustain growth, according to the minutes.

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«What is striking at the moment is the lack of a broader consensus between policy makers about what monetary policy can achieve and what it should do in the current situation,» said Jan Bopp, asset allocation strategist at Bank J Safra Sarasin.

If policy makers were confident that asset markets were at bubble level what is the right response?

The data comes after the Ontario government implemented rules intended to dampen Toronto's real estate market, where escalating prices have concerned policy - makers at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.

At the same time, signs of emerging inflation pressures may elevate concern among investors that policy makers will have reason to raise interest rates more aggressively than anticipated.

Policy makers at the Fed seem to be thinking about this issue so loosely that they don't recognize that security markets operate under the constraints of equilibrium.

How the collapse of oil prices is impacting the Canadian economy, and what policy makers at the federal and provincial level should do to ease the pain

«The main problem with entropy uncertainty models is that they are used to justify the notion that there's room to push agendas to the limit line of the outer edge of the envelope that supports the policy maker's cognitive bias,» opines Dennis Santiago, Senior Managing Director for Compliance and Analytics at Total Bank Solutions.

Some members of the Fed's search committee saw only one potential liability for Mr. Dudley: his years at Goldman Sachs, whose alumni include the former Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., and a raft of other top financial policy makers.

Vancouver, BC — Progressives are coming together today at the Broadbent Institute's first - ever Progress Summit in BC — a sold - out event showcasing key decision and policy makers, leading campaigners, business executives, Indigenous leaders and top academics.

They also pay close attention to the tug - of - war between the deflationary forces at roost in the US and UK and the policy makers» desire to reflate.

MNI regularly books seminars for its subscribers with central bankers and other government policy - makers at the highest level.

Last week, policy makers at the central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), tinkered with the currency without providing much indication to the market about its endgame — one factor in the China market selloff that spurred a global stock rout.

This scenario would increase the efficiency of wholesale payment systems, and has few drawbacks for the public at large or for policy makers, although banks could be hit due to higher competition with non-bank payment institutions.

In interviews and statements, Jacobs, at 29 the youngest candidate running to represent the coastal district in northern San Diego County, has said she was a «policy maker» who worked for the State Department under President Barack Obama.