Sentences with phrase «crisis point of»

The changes to legal aid focus disproportionately on the crisis point of a case, for example the juncture at which a person is to be evicted.

This is the crisis point of the plot, as you probably remember.

Not exact matches

And put that way, it seems a bit more daunting from a taxpayer's point of view, especially when there's very little governments can or need to do to fix Canada's affordable housing crisis — other than get out of the way.

The point is that when you encounter a crisis, it primes your organization to go through major changes it might not otherwise be capable of making.

Long before today's perceived energy crisis, PowerLight was perfecting its patented system — an array of panels that sit on top of a roof, thereby protecting and insulating it — to the point where the company now offers a 20 - year warranty.

The financial crisis revealed the fallacy of the single - point objective function of traditional business education.

In the face of crisis or danger or even gross incompetence, they remain steely - eyed, focused, and on point.

That would be the biggest one - day slump in stock market history, by more than double, besting the 777 point plunge that happened on October 29, 2008, at the high of the panic surrounding the financial crisis.

Other pain points included drug pricing and how approving more generics may affect costs (Gottlieb parried that question by noting the FDA doesn't have the authority to negotiate prices or consider pricing when approving a drug) and his alleged softness on opioid drug makers due the aforementioned financial ties and pro-industry ideology (the nominee noted that he considers opioid addiction and overdoses a public health crisis «on the order of Ebola and Zika»).

Many would point to 2007, the year Apple launched the iPhone, as the first inkling of the crisis to come.

In the years ahead of the financial crisis, Alan Greenspan, the former Fed chairman, systematically raised the benchmark rate a quarter point every time he gathered the Federal Open Market Committee.

As the New York Times pointed out on Tuesday, there have been seven events since the economic crisis of 2009 where the S&P 500 has fallen five percent in the course of a week.

You look at a lot of predictive analysis, what factor do you think is the most worrisome right now that points to a crisis?

At this point, it's not likely a question of «if», or even «when», the next financial crisis will hit.

That said, it is worth pointing out that wireless providers are already struggling to keep up with data demands, and the FCC is working aggressively to recapture wireless spectrum to head off an impending crisis of bandwidth.

You might be surprised to know that the business world was strongly in favor of profit sharing at many points in American history, typically when the concentration of wealth was a major public worry or the country was trying to come together after a crisis.

All too often, CEOs are unaware of the disconnect between the values they list publicly and the values that exist inside their offices until a crisis occurs, at which point it feels too late.

Additionally, some point to funding advantages that the biggest banks may gain for their size and market assumptions that the government would bail them out during another crisis, regardless of changes to the system under Dodd - Frank.

From the point of view of society, Japan is going to come out ahead in the next crisis.

Our findings have important implications for how policymakers should respond to the next financial crisis, which will inevitably occur at some point because crises are an inherent part of our financial system.

The starting point for the discussion was five specific global risks: Resistance to life saving medicine Accelerating transport emissions Loss of ocean biodiversity Global food crisis A Generation Wasted These risk represent a pressure -LSB-...]

So let me just point out that the growth of the population of companies slowed dramatically in a number of countries in the wake of the global financial crisis.

He pointed out that the failure of two or three such institutions would put us in «Lehman Brothers territory,» referring to the investment bank that filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, precipitating the financial crisis.

But any responsible economist has to recognise that, past a point, it can lead to some combination of excessive foreign borrowing, inflation and even financial crisis.

In fact there is a regular pattern that we see when debt levels rise in a country to the point at which either we suffer from a debt crisis or from a lost decade of difficult adjustment.

The starting point for the discussion was five specific global risks: Resistance to life saving medicine Accelerating transport emissions Loss of ocean biodiversity Global food crisis A Generation Wasted These risk represent a -LSB-...]

My argument is that a significant part of the strong productivity performance in the two decades before the crisis was due to globalization, and that the globalization process may have brought trade in the global economy to a new balancing point.

Quick answer: no, as the European Central Bank, which has an inate fear of inflation, felt compelled on Thursday by the economic crisis in Europe to cut its benchmark interest rates by 0.25 percentage points, bringing the refinancing rate to a record low of 0.75 % and the overnight deposit rate to zero.

Sundt (left) defined «crisis alpha» as the ability to generate returns at a time of crisis, and cited 20 years worth of data from his firm's Altegris 40 index of top commodity trading advisors (CTAs) to prove the point.

Bill Gross thinks conditions are ripe for a significant liquidity crisis in the markets, and he points a finger at his old firm for its potential to be at the center of the storm.

The problem of tax evasion in Greece has been pointed out many times during the debt crisis: Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, got into hot water over the summer with her comments that she felt more sympathy with children in Africa than tax evaders in Greece.

As Paul Krugman points out Reifschneider, working with John Williams and using the same FRBUS model, concluded that the ZLB was only a very small issue less than a decade before the financial crisis led to an 8 year stretch of zero rates.

You can see at the moment we're sitting at around $ 2 billion but at one point in time we were up at over $ 16 billion and that was in the middle of the financial crisis.

And this situation is becoming worse as pensions are rapidly becoming a thing of the past, life expectancies along with accompanying health care costs are increasing, and even social security is facing a crisis point.

He correctly pointed out the systemic nature of the crisis and the serious risk of contagion not just for Europe, but also for the world economy.

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company's life cycle.

He also used the 2008 financial crisis and the idea of black swan events to point out that if a broken system is allowed to fail, it actually strengthens it against the catastrophe of future black swan events.

The Baring Crisis of 1890 is pointed out as the first modern international emerging financial crisis.

The case has a David and Goliath element, pointing to controversy involving big banks and their role in an ongoing home foreclosure crisis and a stalled recovery of the feeble real estate market.

It's important to point out that successful management of the debt crisis in Europe and the avoidance of significant tax increases next year in the U.S. are important assumptions in our forecast.

Michael Hewson, Senior Market Analyst at CMC Markets in London, says Carney has gained a lot of «brownie points» for his handling of the financial crisis, given that Canada was the only G7 country that did not have to receive a banking bailout during the financial crisis that started in 2008.

But Taleb pointed us to the years of easy monetary policy brought on by central banks since the financial crisis.

In recent months, the yield on US corporate bonds, especially investment - grade securities, is a little more than 100 basis points compared to the yield on government debt, dropping within striking distance of the lows seen post the 2008 financial crisis.

A couple of weeks ago I posted some information about the «Great Depression of 1873 - 1896 ″ to make the point that there was no depression, great or otherwise, during this period, but that the period did contain some financial crises / panics.

To explain, I point out that if the Fed had done nothing in response to the bust of 2000 - 2002 then there would have been a severe recession, but the economy would probably have made a full recovery by 2004 and there would have been no mortgage - credit / housing - investment bubble and therefore no 2007 - 2008 crisis.

The 10 - year swap spread in the United States, for example, has increased in 2000 by about 50 basis points, to a level higher than at the time of disruptions in markets during the LTCM crisis in 1998.

This is obviously a large simplification, but we are merely trying to make the point that changes in fears over the PIIGS and the subsequent «Eurozone debt crisis premium» is more like changing the intercept of the gold bull market trend than the gradient.

Finally, I feel it would be irresponsible for me not to point out that there are schools of thought (ones that are becoming somewhat more prominent in light of the financial crisis) that do not accept a lot of the limits and boundaries of neoclassical economics.

This is a percentage point lower than average potential growth in the decade prior to the crisis... We estimate that the real neutral policy rate is currently in the range of 1 to 2 per cent... This translates into a nominal neutral policy rate of 3 to 4 per cent, down from a range of 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 per cent in the period prior to the crisis.»

Currently, in the Euro Zone ex UK, the equity risk premium is already above levels seen in the European debt crisis in 2011 and closing in on the 2009 highs of close to 900 basis points.