Sentences with phrase «bigger than economies»

But cultures are bigger than economies; we don't live to consume.

Not exact matches

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

The slowing economy has hit smaller accounting firms harder than the big players, judging by revenue data released over the past month, with practices in Western Australia affected more than those in other states.

Non-farm payroll report: Cramer said that if the number is big, the likelihood of a severe slowdown in the economy is slim, but maintained that the figure «will be even more important than usual.»

It was about a certain economy of space, that it worked big, small, embroidered, that's a lot different than just going with what feels good.

In 2010, as the dust from the financial crisis settled, three women working in disparate parts of the economy noticed that startups in «hard science» (think biology or chemistry rather than tech) weren't getting the attention they deserved from big investors.

«Markets are coming to the conclusion that the U.S. economy is close to overheating and therefore that the risks of inflation are bigger than the risks of a recession,» Deutsche Bank economist Torsten Slok said, quoted by the Financial Times.

While credit risk might seem like a bad idea with the U.S. economy still weak and the rest of the world looking equally uncertain, high - yield bonds do offer bigger returns than government and investment - grade bonds.

That's right — even bigger than China's entire economy.

It's got all this stuff in the news, with ghost cities and real estate markets crashing, but when we think about it, if the U.S. economy is forecast to grow somewhere between 2.75 % and 3 % for 2015, and China is growing at 6.5 % or 7 %, we're still looking at essentially twice the U.S. [growth rate] on a much bigger base than 10 years ago,» she says.

From bakers to retailers and construction firms, more than a dozen of Mexico's biggest companies cited concerns over NAFTA and the election and issuing conservative guidance in recent weeks, despite economic data pointing to an uptick in Latin America's second - largest economy.

The big reason Ottawa finds itself in a tighter fiscal corner in terms of its own imposed deadline is that slower growth than expected has cost the economy about $ 17 billion, and the treasury about $ 2.5 billion in tax revenues.

Despite the slowdown, Buffett says the U.S. economy is still doing better than «virtually any other big economy» around the world.

But the fact remains: the more our economy depends on intellectual rather than physical capital — that is, the more it depends on information and new products and specialized services rather than on warehouses and big factories and centralized paper processing — the stronger will be the centrifugal forces impelling people toward small companies.

«What the ECB and the Bank of Japan are doing relative to their economies is much bigger than what the U.S. has done,» she said.

In Indonesia, the region's biggest economy and most populous country with more than 250 million people, it's in a fierce battle for customers with local app Go - Jek, which has backing from Google and Tencent.

Last quarter, Canada's five biggest banks earned more than $ 10 - billion in collective profits on the surprising strength of the domestic economy.

Euro zone growth is robust but slack in the economy may be bigger than estimated, ECB President Mario Draghi said Monday.

Slack in the euro zone economy may be bigger than previously estimated and this could slow the rise of inflation but only temporarily and prices will eventually climb, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said on Monday.

Me: If you look at the world, and you look at languages, and you look at economies... if you were to try to target those parts of the world that in 15 years, 20 years will have taken a bigger step than other parts of the world, where would you go?

Exports have never been a big part of the U.S. economy, they make up 10 per cent of GDP, less than half the slice of the pie they account for in Canada.

Because it reduces price and increases volume, it suggests that if Uber ultimately succeeds, the company could have a much bigger impact on urban mobility, labor, the environment, local economies and the national transportation infrastructure than we've all supposed — and its effects could confound the expectations of its harshest critics.

As the chart below shows, we see the shift to bigger fiscal spending among G7 economies now making a small contribution to global growth rather than subtracting from it, as the IMF still forecasts.

In other words, when developed markets enjoy a cyclical bout of reflationary growth, they have historically had a bigger growth impact on China and EM economies than when developed market economies are weak.

These economies are growing at a faster pace than the developed world, which can mean bigger profit possibilities for their companies and higher yields for their bonds.

For the first time since 2008, New Hampshire residents see a bigger problem for the state than jobs and the economy.

Book Description: «Experts believe blockchain will have a bigger effect on the world economy than solar power or artificial intelligence.

The argument from Gavin and other who supported increasing the transaction capacity by this method are essentially there are economies of scale in mining and that these economies have far bigger centralisation pressures than increased resource cost for a larger number of transactions (up to the new limit proposed).

Gold advanced the most in more than two weeks amid speculation that China, the world's biggest consumer, will take more measures to bolster the economy, boosting demand for the precious metal as a store of value.

Workers are more efficient than ever, business processes are more efficient, the economy is lots bigger and keeps growing.

These elements are turning China into a more sophisticated, more domestically focused economy and will have a far bigger effect on China's prospects — and indeed on world prospects — than the short - term gyrations of the much - manipulated Chinese stock market.

High prices are often a signaling mechanism to tell the market that your product is worth more than a competitor's, and trying to compete with bigger companies by cutting prices is often a mistake, as it undercuts your profitability while still failing to match the bigger brands» economies of scale.

Chinese GDP growth is well below the double - digit rates the country achieved a decade ago, but with the Chinese economy now considerably bigger than it was then, we remain confident that even with a moderate deceleration in annual growth, the country will continue to contribute significantly to the global economy.

First, food and energy are a bigger part of CPI baskets in these countries than in the developed economies, so the impact there of the rises in commodity prices is larger.

In turn, this has allowed the Portuguese economy to become one of the biggest beneficiaries of the eurozone's robust recovery, with the IMF forecasting 2017 could be the country's best year of growth in more than 20 years.

As China and the United States got closer to a full - blown trade war on Wednesday, with China threatening to impose tariffs on 106 more U.S. products after a similar U.S. move on Tuesday, one major question is looming larger than ever over the world's two biggest economies: Once you're in a trade war, how do you get out of it?

The finding appears to extend to the macroeconomic level as well — shareholders in the larger economy got a much bigger bang for their buck when cash was returned to them as dividends than when it was deployed into capital expenditure.

In the bigger picture, the economy seems to be inching ever closer toward late cycle, and the Federal Reserve has signaled an even tighter policy path than the markets were expecting.

Canada's economy is being held back by a lack of demand for exports, the result of a recession in Europe and slower - than - expected growth in China and other big emerging markets.

As China and the United States got closer to a full - blown trade war on Wednesday, with China threatening to impose tariffs on 106 more U.S. products after a similar U.S. move on Tuesday, one major question is looming larger than ever over the world's two biggest economies: Once you're in a trade...

The people she interviewed face problems that are bigger than any one person: unemployment, lingering racism, and a lack of the social capital necessary to navigate higher education and the knowledge economy.

That being said, clubs like Chelsea, City and PSG are per now having a bigger economy than us, we're just the more valued club.

Besides — look at chelsea: A team the size of Everton has a billionaire injecting money into them for 10 years and now they re slightly bigger than Arsenal in economy and world wide suporter size.

In this economy, I see this as a social issue of serious impact — the big retail giants are getting richer by manipulating information sources to support their casues, rather than provide facts that could really help inform people and change lives.

Sorry, attempt of economic justification of USSR collapse are useless, it was not economy in normal sense - rather big communal living - with certain equal member to be more equal than others.

How is Europe going to achieve a 1.5 % of GDP stimulus package when of the big EU economies only Gordon Brown's Labour and the Socialists under Zapatero in Spain are investing more than 1 % of GDP in growth?

Don't ignore the corporate world — big, international business versus the small and medium - sized businesses representing more than 90 % of the UK economy.

The «city region» is home to 2.7 million people and has an economy bigger than that of Wales or Northern Ireland.

«The precipitous rise of Pegida has shaken Germany's main parties to the core and prompted an acrimonious debate at a time when Europe's biggest economy is straining to deal with a record intake of more than 200,000 asylum seekers in 2014 — mainly from Iraq and Syria — a figure higher than any other country in Europe and which is due to rise considerably this year.»

-LSB-...] Analysts warned that such a big reduction in tax revenue would leave a crater in the state's budget, but Brownback -LSB-...] promis [ed] that the cuts would more than pay for themselves by juicing the economy and creating jobs.»