Sentences with phrase «country as a bubble»

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As the rest of the country worries about the slow pace of economic recovery, the tech world frets about whether there's a new start - up bubble.

At the same time, Silicon Valley knows it could do more to foster a sense of goodwill with the rest of the country, which does not live in its cloistered bubble of wealth and privilege, and yet has as much at stake when it comes to immigration reform.

Bonds are a global phenomenon with even bigger bubbles elsewhere, particularly in NIRP countries, such as those in Europe, and in Japan.

Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now forced to do) which forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).

Norwegian property prices have tripled since the mid-1990s, up nearly 30 % since the Great Recession as the oil - rich nation rode the coattails of the commodities bubble and has benefited from the same «flight to safety» capital flows that have benefited (and inflated bubbles in) other Nordic countries.

Japan's «Bubble Economy» era occurred at the end of its three - decade old «Economic Miracle» that began after World War II and saw the country's fortunes blossom as it became the world's automobile and electronics manufacturing powerhouse.

Norwegian property prices have tripled since the mid-1990s, up nearly 30 % since the Great Recession as the oil - rich nation rode the coattails of the commodities bubble and has benefitted from the same «flight to safety» capital flows that have benefitted (and inflated bubbles in) other Nordic countries.

[1] Denmark's overleveraged banking system, with banking assets as a percentage of GDP at 454 % versus the U.S.'s 90 %, will experience unimaginable pain when the country's housing bubble deflates in earnest.

He will end up going down as being more ineffective as Neil Kinnock and by jumping on bandwagons such as phone hacking that no one outside the Westminster bubble cares about he really needs to be taught a lesson about how the public in this country view the EU.

It strikes the right chords, not only as a personal story of one boy's confusion with his own identity, but also of the confusion of an entire country, whose peoples were conflicted about a war they didn't want, and a bubbling under of anti-immigration sentiment that left foreign newcomers largely unprotected to skinhead gangs like the one depicted in the film.

In the present day, the country passes itself off as a member of the third world, hiding its bustling, dynamic society within a holographic bubble.

Information packs include facts about the country, its location, geography, modern history, ancient history, climate, general information, famous people and inventions etc Display • Photo packs for each country • Country names flashcards, key word flashcards, food flashcards, population statistics poster, A4 flags Maps and Activities • Maps of each country, Scandinavia, the Arctic circle, Europe, the world, continents, map jigsaw, maps to colour, matching cards, flag activities, Language (As Swedish is the most common language spoken across Scandinavia resources are included in this languages) • Number flashcards from 1 - 20 in Swedish • Days of the week in English and Swedish flashcards • Months of the year flashcards in English and Swedish • Common phrases cards — in English and Swedish • Colour flashcards in Swedish • A4 speech bubbles showing «hello» in each Scandinavian language Activities • Themed writing paper with flags to frame pupils work • Writing activities, drawing activities, make a presentation, research note pad, place mat, reward chart, word search, quiz, etc Borders, Banners and Buntings • Extra large lettering spelling «SCANDINAVIA» • Long banners for each country name, buntings with names • patterned and plain display borders and packing paper ifcountry, its location, geography, modern history, ancient history, climate, general information, famous people and inventions etc Display • Photo packs for each country • Country names flashcards, key word flashcards, food flashcards, population statistics poster, A4 flags Maps and Activities • Maps of each country, Scandinavia, the Arctic circle, Europe, the world, continents, map jigsaw, maps to colour, matching cards, flag activities, Language (As Swedish is the most common language spoken across Scandinavia resources are included in this languages) • Number flashcards from 1 - 20 in Swedish • Days of the week in English and Swedish flashcards • Months of the year flashcards in English and Swedish • Common phrases cards — in English and Swedish • Colour flashcards in Swedish • A4 speech bubbles showing «hello» in each Scandinavian language Activities • Themed writing paper with flags to frame pupils work • Writing activities, drawing activities, make a presentation, research note pad, place mat, reward chart, word search, quiz, etc Borders, Banners and Buntings • Extra large lettering spelling «SCANDINAVIA» • Long banners for each country name, buntings with names • patterned and plain display borders and packing paper ifcountry • Country names flashcards, key word flashcards, food flashcards, population statistics poster, A4 flags Maps and Activities • Maps of each country, Scandinavia, the Arctic circle, Europe, the world, continents, map jigsaw, maps to colour, matching cards, flag activities, Language (As Swedish is the most common language spoken across Scandinavia resources are included in this languages) • Number flashcards from 1 - 20 in Swedish • Days of the week in English and Swedish flashcards • Months of the year flashcards in English and Swedish • Common phrases cards — in English and Swedish • Colour flashcards in Swedish • A4 speech bubbles showing «hello» in each Scandinavian language Activities • Themed writing paper with flags to frame pupils work • Writing activities, drawing activities, make a presentation, research note pad, place mat, reward chart, word search, quiz, etc Borders, Banners and Buntings • Extra large lettering spelling «SCANDINAVIA» • Long banners for each country name, buntings with names • patterned and plain display borders and packing paper ifCountry names flashcards, key word flashcards, food flashcards, population statistics poster, A4 flags Maps and Activities • Maps of each country, Scandinavia, the Arctic circle, Europe, the world, continents, map jigsaw, maps to colour, matching cards, flag activities, Language (As Swedish is the most common language spoken across Scandinavia resources are included in this languages) • Number flashcards from 1 - 20 in Swedish • Days of the week in English and Swedish flashcards • Months of the year flashcards in English and Swedish • Common phrases cards — in English and Swedish • Colour flashcards in Swedish • A4 speech bubbles showing «hello» in each Scandinavian language Activities • Themed writing paper with flags to frame pupils work • Writing activities, drawing activities, make a presentation, research note pad, place mat, reward chart, word search, quiz, etc Borders, Banners and Buntings • Extra large lettering spelling «SCANDINAVIA» • Long banners for each country name, buntings with names • patterned and plain display borders and packing paper ifcountry, Scandinavia, the Arctic circle, Europe, the world, continents, map jigsaw, maps to colour, matching cards, flag activities, Language (As Swedish is the most common language spoken across Scandinavia resources are included in this languages) • Number flashcards from 1 - 20 in Swedish • Days of the week in English and Swedish flashcards • Months of the year flashcards in English and Swedish • Common phrases cards — in English and Swedish • Colour flashcards in Swedish • A4 speech bubbles showing «hello» in each Scandinavian language Activities • Themed writing paper with flags to frame pupils work • Writing activities, drawing activities, make a presentation, research note pad, place mat, reward chart, word search, quiz, etc Borders, Banners and Buntings • Extra large lettering spelling «SCANDINAVIA» • Long banners for each country name, buntings with names • patterned and plain display borders and packing paper ifcountry name, buntings with names • patterned and plain display borders and packing paper if needed

«As I travel around the country the number one complaint I hear from teachers is that state bubble tests pressure teachers to teach to a test that doesn't measure what really matters,» said Duncan.

The U.S. public views teachers as providers of content — facts and figures — to improve student achievement on multiple - choice bubble tests, while high - performing countries say teaching — like social work — is about relationships and call on teachers to collaborate with each other and their students to solve problems.

On the day of the new president's inauguration, when we worried that he might be murdered as he walked hand in hand with his exceptional wife among the cheering crowds, and when so many of us were close to economic ruin in the aftermath of the bursting of the mortgage bubble, and when Isis was still an Egyptian mother - goddess, an uncrowned seventy - something king from a faraway country arrived in New York City with his three motherless sons to take possession of the palace of his exile, behaving as if nothing was wrong with the country or the world or his own story.

As an example, below is a graph from the latest Black Knight Mortgage Monitor showing the percentage of median income needed to buy a medium - priced home in the country today in comparison to prior to the housing bubble and bust.

A tiny bit like you perhaps, I look at history (the Great Depression; Japan since the early 1990s or so; the 1970s; the burst housing bubble of the late 80s in some parts of the country; banks having problems in the early 90s) and think the U.S. economy, and increasingly the world as a whole, is able to correct.

The head of Canada's biggest bank and one of the country's leading developers said the housing market is not in a bubble, even as one economist said Toronto is caught in a «condo craze.»

The photographs have emerged as a Chinese government think tank warns that the country's real estate bubble is getting worse, with property prices in major cities overvalued by as much as 70 per cent.

By late 2006 and 2007, housing prices had declined and in 2008, the bubble finally burst as home price indexes across the country reported record - breaking price drops.

As if that isn't enough, it is a hot bed of geothermal activity with geysers, bubbling mud pools and mineral springs dotting the country.

After a winding stroll through the vendor market outside, we headed to the center of Ginza, the neighborhood known as «Tokyo's Fifth Avenue,» and home to some of the city's priciest stores and real estate (at one point during the height of the country's real estate bubble in the late 1980's, one square meter in Ginza was worth $ 200,000).

This is a country of sublime landscapes ranging from sparkling glaciers to bubbling volcanic mud pools, and from mountain - ringed fjords to colourful cities such as exciting Reykjavík, the world's northernmost capital city.

The Associated Press reported: «As bubbles floated up from their face masks, the president, vice president, Cabinet secretary and 11 ministers signed a document calling on all countries to cut their carbon dioxide emissions.]

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As bad as the housing bubble was, the one good thing that came out of it was that lenders across the country had to tighten up their processes regarding short saleAs bad as the housing bubble was, the one good thing that came out of it was that lenders across the country had to tighten up their processes regarding short saleas the housing bubble was, the one good thing that came out of it was that lenders across the country had to tighten up their processes regarding short sales.

As an example, below is a graph from the latest Black Knight Mortgage Monitor showing the percentage of median income needed to buy a medium - priced home in the country today in comparison to prior to the housing bubble and bust.

Ennis» real estate bubble has not burst as is typical of many other areas of the country, and buyers can expect a sound market and strong resale values.