Not exact matches
Comments: «We continue to believe that prospects remain good for economic growth to reassert itself as challenges are persistently met
by concerted efforts of country officials and central bankers around the world aided and abetted
by secular
trends larger than the
cyclical hurdles in the immediate path.
While most of his proposals — «to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter
cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics (including a consumer price index) in order to facilitate this effort» — are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional - reserve banking still «remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom» although a recent paper
by the IMF reinvigorated his proposals.
The effects of interest rate changes in the 1990s are visible as
cyclical rises and falls in debt servicing, around a slowly rising
trend, caused
by the increase in debt levels.
And indeed, the brand's approach to making apparel has more in common with the iterative approach to product development embraced
by the technology industry than the
cyclical,
trend - driven rhythm of the fashion industry.
Expert analyses, provided
by some of the most reputable names in the business, help identify perceived market
trends,
cyclical opportunities, and / or risks in the markets.
I analyze
cyclical stocks
by using Chuck Carnevale's F.A.S.T. Graphs to view earnings
trends in multiple time frames, covering more than one business cycle.
My opinion expressed elsewhere is that almost all the temperature changes we observe over periods of less than a century are caused
by cyclical changes in the rate of energy emission from the oceans with the solar effect only providing a slow background
trend of warming or cooling for several centuries at a time.
If we look at the
trends since records began, noting that there are longitudinal problems (changes in locations of weather stations, + UHI effects) and contamination
by human analysts (data trickery), the
trends seem
cyclical in periods of around 60 years.
Some might believe that this all suggests that CO2 appears to be a somewhat weak climate driver that is overwhelmed
by natural variability, and that our international institutions appear to have inexplicably forgotten their climate history and not be aware that, far from being «unprecedented,» the apparent
cyclical nature of our climate explains the current temperature
trends very nicely.
Instead, this analysis can easily end up attributing to a
cyclical pattern what is more appropriately a part of a growing non-
cyclical trend that might have in fact been properly identified
by the IPCC.
So it is entirely possible for an underlying
trend to be temporarily masked
by cyclical factors.
The Second Supplement to Petition states: Adjustments that impart an ever - steeper upward
trend in the data
by removing the natural
cyclical temperature patterns present in the data deprive the GAST products from NOAA, NASA and Hadley CRU of the credibility required for policymaking or climate modeling, particularly when they are relied on to drive trillions of dollars in expenditures.
Other shorter - term factors affecting market fundamentals include
cyclical trends, such as broad macroeconomic conditions measured
by metrics that include the jobless rate, employment growth, consumer confidence and the velocity of residential home sales.