Sentences with phrase «biggest economy during»

He was fortunate as the 34th President of the US to lead the world's biggest economy during rampant boom time, a period when median incomes almost doubled for US citizens.

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Just as baby boomers took over business, politics, and the consumer economy during the 1980s and»90s, millennials currently in their mid-20s will make up the majority of jobs and big - ticket purchases such as houses and cars, Slok wrote in a recent brief, which was first reported by Axios.
During good times he was making big money... until kaboom - one year he went bankrupt because has no savings and some properties stop cash flowing due to economy and he can't find any money cash.
Warren Buffett believes his best deals during the economy's biggest belly flop since the Crash of 1929 may well turn out to be the ones he didn't do.
During that period, our rulers gave us an economy dependent on colossal public and private debt, with big disparities not only in wealth and income but in opportunity and expectations.
Those three groups formed a key alliance during the Durban conference that forced the United States and major emerging economies like India and China to commit to negotiating a future broad climate deal that binds all big emitters to cut carbon.
Armenia hosts one of Russia's biggest foreign military bases, offsetting a longstanding OSCE arms embargo against it, yet during President Sargsyan's first term he also strengthened his country's ties with NATO and for the most part upheld international sanctions against neighboring Iran, despite the extensive opportunity costs to the Armenian economy.
The split was highlighted by the lawsuit, but has its roots in the souring economy in the county, a one - time manufacturing hub that saw several big companies pack up and leave during the last few years of the Great Recession.
President Obama challenged the nation's governors to invest more in education during a speech to the National Governors Association in which he asserted that no issue has a bigger effect on the economy, and that it is best addressed at the state level.
Even President Barack Obama name - checked Tennessee during his State of the Union address in January, 2014, as an example of a state that's taking big steps to improve its education system: «Teachers and principals in schools from Tennessee to Washington, D.C., are making big strides in preparing students with the skills for the new economy,» he said.
The bigger gains in fuel economy come during city driving, when the electric motors do the vast majority of the work.
Volvo's decision to go with an all four - cylinder lineup was a brave and risky move, but it's paying big dividends as was witness by the average fuel economy enjoyed during the test period — a better - than - expected 9.7 L / 100 km.
Volkswagen was really cranking out the Rabbits in Pennsylvania during the early 1980s, and one of the car's biggest selling points was its impressive fuel economy.
Turkey's financial system remained relatively unscathed during the financial crisis and the country's economy will gain a big boost when Turkey gains entry into the European Union.
Meanwhile a housing and financial bubble bursting in China, and the inflationary bubble in the US funded by the magic money of the Fed are both set to burst into undeniable reality any time soon, will at least drive down fossil fuel use during the looming new global recession about to hit from the two biggest economies on the world going someways down the toilet.....
This, plus bigger turbines and economies of scale, have contributed to more than halving the average cost of wind power during the past two decades.
And the economy was also consuming a relatively intact continent and all the big fish in the ocean while burning fossil fuels during the last few centuries, so you're not even comparing different things.
The economy may be wobbling amid fears of Brexit but until last week most of the big UK law firms looked to be avoiding the large - scale redundancies seen at many during the financial crisis.
Though mergers are more common among better economies, slowing down a bit during recessions, big firms sometimes use mergers as a strategy to boost revenue during a recession.
«The continuing decline in the housing market is something that hasn't bottomed out as quickly as we expected, and so that's continued to be a big drag on the economy,» Obama said during the town hall forum.
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