Sentences with phrase «economic boom years»

The planned low tax hikes contrast with the current school year's average 3.27 percent increase, as well as jumps of 7, 8 or even 9 percent recorded during the economic boom years preceding the Great Recession.

Not exact matches

DURING the sustained economic boom that came to a screeching halt one year ago, business leaders were unanimous in advocating a long - term approach to dealing with the big strategic issues.

But more important was the previous decade's economic boom, including four consecutive years of 4.4 % or better real GDP growth.

The boom years for employment and balanced federal budgets in the 1990s had everything to do with the emergence of the Internet rather than with any enlightened economic policies.

The IPO market has swung back and forth since the dot - com boom in the late 1990s through the bust a few years later and on up to the most recent economic downturn, during which there were six venture capital - backed IPOs in 2008 and 12 in 2009 — compared with 86 in 2007, according to the Exit Poll report by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.

Starbucks plans to add over 10,000 new jobs a year in China over the next five years as part of the U.S. coffee giant's big bet on the nation of tea drinkers, where coffee culture is flourishing amid a booming middle class despite an economic slowdown.

It's based on an asset that has increased in value every single year for more than 160 years, through every period of economic boom and bust, including the Great Depression.

But Dollarama will also likely continue to expand when the recession ends, whereas U.S. dollar stores will likely see an end to their boom years when the economic crisis subsides.

Canadian demographer David Foot, who made a name for himself following the entrails of the baby boom and wrote the book Boom, Bust and Echo, has been warning for years that an aging workforce inevitably leads to slower economic groboom and wrote the book Boom, Bust and Echo, has been warning for years that an aging workforce inevitably leads to slower economic groBoom, Bust and Echo, has been warning for years that an aging workforce inevitably leads to slower economic growth.

Basically the baby boom, post-war, boosted economic growth in the opposite way to what I just described, for about 50 years.

With billions of dollars of construction spend spread across a few years, along with the promise of strong jobs creation in the tune of thousands of jobs being created, the state hosting a Gigafactory - scale facility is primed for an economic boom.

The speech goes on to outline some of the economic surprises that came to pass in the intervening years, including: the «mining boom mark II»; the further significant rise and then subsequent fall in Australia's terms of trade; and the search for yield in global capital markets driven by ongoing ultra-easy monetary policy in the major economies.

Booming stock markets and the best global economic growth in seven years are fueling record levels of optimism among chief executives,» according to the PWc survey I mention above.

The entertainment complex project, launched under developer Mills Corporation during the 2004 boom, fell into default during the economic downturn and hung in the balance for years before being acquired by current owner Triple Five Group in August.

I have held CAT for many years and realize that it's a company / stock that goes through boom and bust cycles as it is more sensitive to economic activity than say, consumer staples.

Despite economic booms and busts, however, a majority of Americans have maintained an investment in the markets in the past 15 years.

Even an economic recovery (such as the great boom of the last six Reagan years, as well as the more modest boom that began in 1992) can not lift incomes for those who are not in the labor force earning income.

The economic orthodoxies of the boom years collapsed in the 1970s.

In previous boom years, the cap is adjusted upwards, based on economic performance.

Rising contribution levels during the economic boom of the 1980s, however, led the Government to abolish this that year.

He shows how Britain's socio - economic culture led to the baby - boomers - and how the recovery from the crisis they will present the country with in the coming years could be rooted in the family.

Likewise in the year 2000 a book came out called «The Long Boom» predicting that we were halfway through a 40 year period of unprecedented economic growth that would last until 2020.

Pennsylvania created 232,000 new jobs at $ 60,000 a year plus, small communities and counties in Northern Pennsylvania are paying off their debt, farmers and other property owners are getting huge royalties and Pennsylvania is enjoying an economic boom from fracking, which cost the taxpayers nothing.

New York City's economy is booming, with 702,200 jobs added between 2009 and 2017 — the longest economic expansion in more than 70 years, according to state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli...

The CBI's director general, John Cridland, said there was «gathering momentum» in the economy but more needed to be done to correct the «profound economic imbalances which built up during the boom years», including developing a «coherent» industrial strategy.

But the demise of this troubled 35 - year experiment in social engineering is unlikely to spark a baby boom and jumpstart economic growth.

But a raft of mine expansions during the boom years and weak demand caused by the global economic slowdown pushed prices to a 3 - year low near $ 80 a metric ton in October 2012, and they have stayed below $ 100 since.

She found that people who were between 18 and 25 years old during hard economic times, as measured by unemployment rates, were less narcissistic later in life than those who came of age during economic booms.

This threatens the state's ability to sustain the current economic boom and traps the workers themselves in jobs with little opportunity to advance, according to New Skills for a New Economy, a new study based on over two years of research conducted at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's National Center for Adult Literacy and Learning (NCSALL) and Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies.

The compact SUV market is booming this year, even in the wake of the economic downturn.

As Mark Penn said in his 2007 book Microtrends, «Boomers reinvented youth in the 1960s and economic success in the 1980s; they are not about to do their senior years by someone else's formula.

Stretching from the early 1970s in the Iowa farmlands to suburban Chicago to the coast of contemporary Italy - and moving through the Vietnam War's aftermath, the farm crisis, the numerous economic booms and busts - The Year We Left Home follows the Erickson siblings as they confront prosperity and heartbreak, setbacks and triumphs, and seek their place in a country whose only constant seems to be breathtaking change.

Hussein Sumar presents How a 401k Plan Increases your Savings Opportunities under the Economic Growth & Tax Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) posted at 401k, saying, «Many baby boomers who are nearing retirement and even young people who are interested in saving as much as they can for retirement visit their financial advisors each year to see how much they can contribute to their 401k plans for the current & upcoming tax years.

There is an important 40 - year cycle that operates in the financial markets, and it also shows up in other areas such as real estate booms, gold rushes, and economic wars.

A year later, current Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the boom «largely reflect strong economic fundamentals.»

[8][9] An economic boom accompanied the development of the Summerland field, which transformed the spiritualist community of Summerland into an oil town in just a few years.

I've got more than enough work and actually had my biggest boom years right in the middle of this economic downturn.

A broader question overlaying this particulate debate is how much economic incentive companies have to drill in the Arctic, which has notoriously bad weather and is open for drilling for only a few months of the year, when oil production is booming onshore in the lower 48 states.

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During the 25 years of his experience, throughout Europe and in the US, Renaud Roquebert has witnessed and taken part in some of the major global economic events: the inception of emails and the internet for everybody, the dot com boom and bust, the dramatic increase of globalisation and cross...

If you've been here longer than five years, you're well aware of the boom - and - bust cycles that have dotted the economic landscape in this area.

How can we rule out the possibility that these results come from an economic boom in which most families have higher incomes a year later?

As a result of economic stress, Bishop said, older boomers are staying in place a few years longer than people who retired before the recession scrambled retirement nest eggs.

This highlights unique economic developments over the last several years, including the boom in oil exploration in North Dakota and the growth of Western cities, like Denver, thanks to young people.

Amid widespread falling values, a large shadow inventory, and general economic uncertainty, perhaps the biggest positive development in the real estate industry in the past year has been the booming rental market.

Used to thriving economies and strong employment rates, baby boomers played a critical role in stimulating the housing market prior to the Great Recession, but the economic realities of the last few years have shifted the focus to Generation Y and real estate professionals are now looking to the approximately 80 million «Millennials» born between 1978 - 1995 to shape the state of the housing market for decades to come.

Demand for property from warehouses to skyscrapers is booming, helped by more than six years of Federal Reserve efforts to stimulate economic growth by keeping interest rates low, and stockpiles of cash from overseas investors seeking a haven.

Brazil's consumer credit explosion resulted from a 10 - year economic boom and increased domestic consumption, especially among the poorer classes.