Sentences with phrase «beginnings of another recession»

Since the beginning of the recession, Breslow says reasons for obtaining financing have changed.
«At the beginning of the recession, when things started getting tough, people wanted to use their non-cash assets,» he says.
After all, she launched her consultancy business in 2007, the beginning of the recession.
Talk to people in the industry, and especially those selling advertising, and they'll tell you it's been feeling like the beginnings of another recession for them.
In general, a drop in consumer confidence by more than 20 points below its 12 - month average has accompanied the beginning of recessions;
Falling factory capacity utilization from above 80 % to below 80 % has generally accompanied the beginning of recessions;
«But if the Fed did not act, then given how much inflation has come down since the beginning of the recession, I think it would be a more serious concern.»
Year - over year growth in real GDP, real gross domestic income, durable goods orders, real retail sales, industrial production and other measures are all down to levels typically observed at the beginning of recessions.
The stocks of consumer discretionary companies tend to lead a general stock market decline at the beginning of a recession.
We would be more compelled if this was accompanied by a drop in consumer confidence of 20 points or more below its 12 - month average, which typically accompanies the beginning of recessions.
Slowing growth in employment and hours worked do tend to accompany the beginning of recessions.
This was at the beginning of the recession when people in this country were losing their jobs and homes left and right.
Using national suicide data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority, the team, which included researchers from the University of Crete and the University of Edinburgh, found that men in Greece experienced a significant, abrupt and sustained 13 percent increase in suicide beginning in October 2008, which marked the beginning of the recession, with a reduction in national gross domestic product and many violent protests.
I also put on about 30 pounds when I recently returned to university at the beginning of the recession.
What we have seen is that the increases to state aid have not been sufficient to make up for the lost ground since the beginning of the recession
In a new report on the effects of the recession on teacher salaries in 41 major school districts, the National Council on Teacher Quality found that teacher raises for experience and market forces like inflation were one - third to one - half of what they were at the beginning of the recession.
The graph below shows the S&P's return from the beginning of each recession - induced bear market up to the point of acceptance, using the Anxious Index as the indicator.
I got my license to practice law right at the beginning of the recession.
Since the beginning of the recession through December 2009, a total of 8.4 million jobs were lost nationwide, according to the recent revisions to the employment numbers.
Thankfully 50 year old, 1000 square foot starter homes have dropped from $ 650,000 at the beginning of the recession to $ 350,000 today, but it is still quite difficult for many to come up with the down payment for their primary residence.

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Carla Harris, chair of the National Women's Business Council, suggests that women of color may have been more likely to have been laid off during the beginning of the great recession, and so may have been more likely to need entrepreneurship as an alternative way to make a living.
«What we're seeing across the board is that the consumer is finally beginning to open up a little bit, whereas post Great Recession, for years, it was sort of «is this for real or not for real»?»
And as we are past mid-cycle in this expansion, the shadowy outlines of that recession are in my opinion beginning to take shape.
The nation added 217,000 jobs in May to reach the milestone, though the unemployment rate remained unchanged last month at 6.3 % and U.S. employment still needs to catch up with the growth of the population and labor force that has occurred since the recession began.
«My original vision with Digiday was always to have a business with a variety of different titles, each covering how digital was changing that industry or area,» the Digiday founder said, recalling how the company began in 2008, in the middle of the U.S. recession.
In 2016, for the first time since the Great Recession, restaurant chains once again began emphasizing value after years of doubling down on quality with a flood of bundled bargain deals.
For the sake of comparison, consider this: During the first quarter of Obama's second term in 2013, foreign travel to the U.S. increased 6.4 % and in the first three months of 2009, at the beginning of his first term and the global recession, it was down 14.3 %.
While originally plagued with production issues — there was a recession at the beginning of construction, allegations of British spying in the middle, and technical issues toward the end — the carrier was deployed to the Indian Ocean during Operation Enduring Freedom and the initial liberation of Afghanistan.
Ultimately, Clinton had far and away the best stock market results of the four most recent two - term presidents, followed by Obama, then Reagan, and, trailing far behind with negative gains, George W. Bush, whose presidency ended at the beginning of the Great Recession.
Turin is also the unofficial capitol of Italy's automotive industry, which has suffered serious setbacks in production since the recession began.
Like so many entrepreneurs these days, Estabrooke began his journey as a result of the recession.
As the C&I market has skewed toward larger deals in the wake of the recession, the outline of the restructuring market for the next recession has begun to come into focus.
The 47 hour figure has remained largely consistent over the past 14 years, Gallup reports, even as the number of jobs began to plummet on the heels of the recession in 2007.
From its May 9 note:: «For the last three months, year - over-year growth in real personal income has stayed lower than it was at the beginning of each of the last ten recessions.
Start - ups began to decline in the months before the 2001 recession and to increase before it was over, possibly indicating this ebb and flow of demand not fully captured in other statistics.
Eleven months later, in December of 2007, the recession officially began.
But with the unemployment rate, at 6.2 percent, well below its recession - era peak of 10 percent, and inflation showing no signs of falling further, the Fed has begun to trim its monthly bond purchases, aiming to end them completely by October.
The Great Recession scared a lot of companies which quickly divested themselves of all but the most necessary employees and began outsourcing all work that they could no longer do inhouse.
The next best 5 - year period began in July 1982, amid an economy in the midst of one of the worst recessions in the postwar period, featuring double - digit levels of unemployment and interest rates.
«Net worth dropped long before the recession, if you exclude housing wealth,» says sociologist Fabian Pfeffer, research assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, who adds that wealth for many Americans began to decline in the mid-1980s.
And though economic recovery has begun, Albertans still feel the scars of the deep recession and oil - price plunge.
They are the maximum and minimum effective federal funds rates in any given month spanning from 6 months before the recession began to 6 months after the recession ended, with only one exception: the end period extends to only the official end of the 1980 recession in July of 1980, and not 6 months afterwards, because rates began rising afterwards and including those months would have made the drop appear larger than it actually was.
The massive and multifaceted policy responses to the financial crisis and Great Recession — ranging from traditional fiscal stimulus to tools that policymakers invented on the fly — dramatically reduced the severity and length of the meltdown that began in 2008; its effects on jobs, unemployment, and budget deficits; and its lasting impact on today's economy.
Eight years after the beginning of the last recession, the economy is in much worse shape than was expected — at least judging from the forecasts that the Congressional Budget Office published back in August 2007.
Again, I want to stress that the U.S. economy was already in recession (which will ultimately be dated as beginning during the first quarter of 2001), and the market was already in a bear market before last week's tragedy.
in a single trading session; and the U.S. bear market of 2007 - 2009, which began in October 2007 and accelerated dramatically in October 2008, leading to the Great Recession.
The economy would have been thrown into a much deeper and longer recession than actually occurred; a temporary stimulus program would not have been permitted; departmental operating budgets would have been frozen beginning in 2009 - 10 and continuing to long past 2015 - 16; the salaries of all Cabinet Ministers and Deputy Ministers would have been frozen beginning in 2009 and lasting long past 2015.
The 4 - week moving average also ticked lower, and is now the lowest since the beginning of the great recession.
Recent levels have dropped to about the same level we saw at the beginning of the 2007 - 2009 recession.
The expansionary period that followed the recession in 1960 - 61, which was a result of high unemployment and a shift to foreign - made cars, was met with another sharp decline as the Fed began to tighten monetary policy.
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