Sentences with phrase «economic change then»

I am going to put on my «Mom Hat» and suggest that it is far better to be prepared for an economic change then to have it thrust upon you.

For example, if Labour is serious about radical economic change then it needs to consider how it can build an alliance of social and political forces to support it.

Not exact matches

She was the only leader who recognized that if the objective is to stimulate growth in the near term, then Ottawa has to change the way it frames economic policy.

If economic circumstances change, then monetary policy needs to change too.

If households and businesses do not have a good notion of how the Federal Reserve will respond to changing economic and financial market conditions, then this would loosen the linkage between short - term rates and financial conditions.

Then we construct and manage customized, strategic portfolios that seek to maximize returns and balance long - term market fundamentals with a changing economic landscape of opportunities.

In his May 2009 paper «The Canadian Oil Sands: Energy Security vs. Climate Change» (long one of my favorite sources), Levi identifies a list of six security and economic consequences of oil consumption and production and then examines how increased oil sands production and exports to the U.S. would mitigate or exacerbate these impacts.

If we all agreed that this value was fair, then stock prices would be static, stuck in place until an outside variable — say, the release of new economic data — changed investors» minds.

If stock price changes are caused by investor emotion, then the only way in which we can deal with economic crises effectively is to help investors rein in their emotional impulses.

The fund may also invest in small - and mid-capitalization companies, which can be particularly sensitive to changing economic conditions, and their prospects for growth are less certain then those of larger, more established companies.

(1) employment growth, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Summaries in August 2016, with the percentage representing the employment change from June 2015 to June 2016 in each city; (2) population growth, based on and sourced from the 2014 and 2015 Census, with the percentage representing the change in population from 2014 to 2015; (3) increase in home values, based on Zillow Home Value, with the percentage representing the change in median home values for single - family homes from June 2015 to June 2016, sourced August 2016; (4) years to pay off property, which was based using the median home value for July 2016 and the median rent for a single - family residence for July 2016, both sourced from Zillow; median rent was multiplied by 12 to obtain yearly rent and then home value was divided by yearly rent to determine how many years it would take for the home to be paid off from rental income using current home values and rent prices for each city.

This process continued and then, in 1990, there was a big political and economic change.

Then there is wisdom, human wisdom, man's intelligent ordering of his life, the serious employment of right reason, the attempt to find the proper way of life, the whole enterprise that takes form in political action and personal morality, in social work and poetry, in economic management and the building of temples, in the constant improvement of justice by changing laws, in philosophy and technology, the manifold wisdom of man which is also inscribed in the wisdom of God and which may be an expression of this wisdom, the first of all God's works that rejoiced before him when he laid the foundations of the world (Proverbs 8:22 ff.).

Finally, voters tied firmly to either coalition would then interpret changing economic conditions in light of these prior, cultural, allegiances.

If you agree that environmental deterioration is important, that net international capital is a significant consideration, and that a nation is better off economically when the gap between the rich and the poor is narrowed, then our figures will be useful to you in evaluating how much correlation there is between changes in per capita GNP and economic welfare.

But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking of the actual power relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level of a social neurosis; if people are released from the rat race of upward mobility only privatistically, with no critique of the economic and social ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if people are liberated from a bad sense of themselves without any sense of mission to change the conditions that waste human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification of the actual power relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate of the masses.

If we look, for instance, at the international economic order apart from our baptism and Christian faith, we could look at it simply as North Americans, and our main concern would then be how to preserve those elements in that world order that benefit our economy and how to change those that do not.

While it was not news then that pervasive change was afoot, it has taken the traumas of the past ten years — an immoral and lost war, racial and sexual conflict, the imminence of economic and ecologic collapse — to persuade us of just how deep that crisis is.

Though I wrote these words eight years ago, I don't think the concerns of sports moms have changed all that much and that what I said then largely still hold true today, although I think, if I were to update the list of concerns, I would probably add two more: fifth, that mothers want a more inclusive youth sports experience that is affordable to all families, regardless of socio - economic status or whether they live in a wealthy suburb or an economically disadvantaged inner city neighborhood, and sixth, that mothers want a better balance between sports and family life (a problem I explored in the book and on these pages, but that, if anything, has gotten worse, not better, in the last eight years).

It has been an honour to negotiate and then serve in the first coalition government of modern times which has substantial achievements both in reducing the economic dangers faced by our country, and in making progress with policies to tackle climate change and provide energy security.

It then entered a more stable but still highly volatile period where it seemed to track the statements made by ministers like David Davis - as if Britain were some sort of tinpot dictatorship where huge economic changes could be discerned by the comments of senior generals.

Only then does Corbyn have a chance to deliver his real message about the impact of changes to tax credits, the impact of austerity measures, the inequity of the housing market and how there is an alternative economic strategy.»

They then come up with another bizarre statement, that «government is on trial as well as the markets» when everyone actually knows there is a need for restoring a strong positive role for government which alone was able to bail out the banks and prevent a global economic crash as well as alone having the capacity to deal with soaring energy bills and transport fares, tackle climate change, and counter the bonus greed and tax avoidance of the super-rich.

The economic times are so serious that David Cameron is correct to bring such a successful former Chancellor back to the frontbench: «The world has changed, and if in response to the resulting tumult Barack Obama can do a deal with Mrs Clinton and Gordon Brown can rediscover his friendship with Peter Mandelson, then surely the Tories should be able to bury the hatchet (in their opponents rather than each other) in order to turf out Labour?»

Now the economic downturn has slowed some of those process of the change but as long as you've got 12 million or 13 or 15 million people in South Florida ringing the Everglades then all of what you try to do in the Everglades will be human denominated, and you won't get a natural system back.

The key to a successful program is navigating tight economic conditions for the initial purchase and then maintaining your assets and infrastructure, refreshing them as the technology changes.

Then it adjusts periodically based on an economic index such as the Prime Rate or Treasury securities that measures interest rate changes.

All three bond rating agencies rate bonds when they are first issued and then continually analyze additional financial information and adjust ratings in light of changing economic status.

What we aim to do is create a low - cost, balanced and globally diversified portfolio and then gradually shift asset mix and geographic weightings based on our longer - term economic forecasts and changes in broad fundamentals such as corporate profitability.

Do they change asset classes when economic conditions change - do they switch to growth managers when the economy is growing, then to value during recessions?

Since then much has changed in the economic outlook, and the metal has endured a prolonged, bruising bear market that knocked gold prices down 44 %.

These developments were shaped by the dizzying transformations then occurring in every aspect of life, from the advent of the automobile and moving pictures to the rapid growth of American cities and the wrenching economic change brought on by the advent of the Great Depression after a decade of unprecedented prosperity.

If you're referring to the sentence quoted above in # 6, then let me remind you that's a high - order consequence, with * lots * of intervening variables between climate change and normalized economic loss.

• If global civilization can not continue to adjust to these climate changes in an evolutionary manner, then revolutionary means (economic depression, famine, mass migration, unilateral seizure of resources, unilateral efforts at geo - engineering) leave us and our descendants vulnerable to perpetual warfare, with ever - increasing chances of unrestrained nuclear exchanges.

Maybe, and a good point to bear in mind, but the possibilities are constrained by economic inertia — I'd expect the change to be distributed over time (except when anthropogenic net emissions do approach zero — then there might be a slam into the zero line, and if there is not much sequestration, it would stop changing around that time).

Since those are certain to cause more disruption to the economic system than the slow changes presently envisaged, then for me that is a major failing.

It seems to me that if humans are capable of sacrificing this much collective benefit in the name of stabilizing an economic system that makes daily life so much more expensive and precarious, then surely humans should be capable of making some important lifestyle changes in the interest of stabilizing the physical systems upon which all of life depends.

9 — Relentlessly moving forward, wind marketers then tried to change the focus from jobs to «economic development.»

In January 2009, a 2004 leaked memo to then Peabody CEO Irl F. Engelhardt from Steve Miller, who was President of the Center for Energy and Economic Development (now called American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity), detailed the public relations and lobbying strategies being used to counteract issues including climate change, mercury, plant development, and EPA rulings.

Certainly, but it's even more dangerous to change horses in midstream, which is what you did while riding your favorite hobby horse «proposed mitigation leads to economic disaster,» the ultimate in hyperbole, and then hopped onto your other favorite hobby horse, that those pointing out you're an idiot must be an idiot themselves for wanting to «save us from economic disaster.»

It then addresses the economic costs of the impact of climate change and the opportunities for regional integration and coordination in the pursuit of low - carbon economies.

If economic growth is 2.6 % per year without climate change, and 2.0 % with, then a century of climate change would reduce income by 44 %.

So if there is a real, though unquantifiably small, possibility of catastrophic climate change, and if we would ideally want some technological hedges as insurance against this unlikely scenario, and if raising the price of carbon to induce private economic actors to develop the technologies would be an enormously more expensive means of accomplishing this than would be advisable, then what, if anything, should we do about the danger?

If this leads to decisions which are more robust to future climate changes (as well as demographic and economic changes) then it is worthwhile including the regional climate projections in the decision making process.

For a given climate change scenario, they can use the framework to analyze the chain of physical changes at the regional and sectoral levels, and then estimate economic impacts at those levels.

So, the key thing for us is to obviously get our budget proposals through, but once we do that, we think that his presents an opportunity to turn the twin challenges of energy dependence and climate change into an economic opportunity — for New York, and hopefully for the American people to stop sending all of our energy dollars overseas, recapture them, build new technologies, and then export those technologies around the world as people try to reduce their own dependence and fight climate change.

... when it comes to the real - world consequences of those scientific findings, specifically the kind of deep changes required not just to our energy consumption but to the underlying logic of our economic system, the crowd gathered at the Marriott Hotel may be in considerably less denial than a lot of professional environmentalists, the ones who paint a picture of global warming Armageddon, then assure us that we can avert catastrophe by buying «green» products and creating clever markets in pollution.

Stern's landmark 2006 report on the economic impact of climate change — commissioned by the then chancellor, Gordon Brown — concluded that spending 1 % of GDP would pay for a transition to a clean and sustainable economy.

If climate change allocations are considered to be in fulfillment of human rights duties, then arguments based upon economic self - interest in setting ghg emissions targets are not an acceptable justification for avoiding human rights obligations.

If economic impacts of climate change are proportional to income — that is, the rich feel the effects more than the poor — then NICE's results match RICE's.