Sentences with phrase «economic dangers of»

Osborne has kept a lower profile in recent months but he has warned about the potential economic dangers of a hard Brexit.
The # 250 million rescue cash for energy intensive industry is the latest proof that the Chancellor understands the economic danger of Chris Huhne's climate change policies.
Labour leader Ed Miliband also highlighted the economic danger of an exit from the EU, saying Cameron was putting future success at risk.

Not exact matches

If Canada's companies are as wary of Trump as their political leaders, there is a real danger of economic paralysis.
The wide variety of economic dangers in 2012 — from a housing correction to an overheated China — will keep employers wary.
U.S. «The economy isn't in imminent danger of relapsing into recession [according to the Federal Reserve, most private economists and Wall Street strategists]... but the Economic Cycle Research Institute, an organization with an excellent track record, says the U. S. is actually heading into another recession.»
However, the distortion of the debate by Trump and other politicians creates a danger that resources will be misdirected from more pressing infrastructure needs, such as aged water pipes leaching lead and schools - or from projects that will have a considerable regional economic impact.
Kelly said that with a tight labor market, improving inflation, and slow but improving economic growth, the Trump plan had the danger of kicking the economy to an unsustainable level.
The sole success story of the Arab Spring is in danger of failing under the weight of market - oriented economic policies.
Trudeau's speech in Germany suggests a hardening of his resolve to do something about income inequality, which economists such as Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Canadian Jonathan Ostry, the deputy director of the International Monetary Fund's research department, describe as a present danger to sustainable economic growth.
The problem with all this is that when large banks are funded by so much debt (and so little equity) they're in much greater danger of insolvency during an economic downturn.
Recently Brian Crowley published two articles in the Globe and Mail arguing that deficits «don't promote economic growth» and «stimulus proponents disregard dangers of deficits at their peril».
But the danger of a central bank willing to tighten economic conditions as the boost from fiscal stimulus fades has helped push down long - dated yields, while lifting short - dated yields.
In «The Dangers of an Extended Period of Low Interest Rates: Why the Bank of Canada Should Start Raising Them Now,» published by the C.D. Howe Institute, Masson argues there is urgency for the Bank to act in view of the economic distortions and financial risks low interest rates pose for Canada.
Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown — made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners — were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose.
In an article published on its website last Friday, the century - old think tank cautioned that «there exists a very real danger that the petro will not only fail to cure Venezuela's economic woes but will also weaken the integrity of cryptocurrencies writ - large.»
For a more in depth analysis of our financial problems and the inherent dangers they pose for the U.S. economy and U.S. dollar denominated investments, read my new book «Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse.»
Moltmann's thoughts on the dangers of using the power of scientific knowledge without pondering beauty - and in particular on the dangers of the «economisation» of science in this century, in which scientific thought may only be valued generally in terms of its economic power - would be shared by many researchers in the UK.
When poor people flee their land, risking great danger and hardship, they make a commentary on the legal and economic structure of that land.
If «colonialism» exists it provokes resentment; if it exists merely in economic forms that seem more appropriate to our age, it is still going to lead to difficulties, and danger is going to arise if the Western nations imagine that all problems can be solved by the power of money.
The title, Why America Doesn't Work, is meant to suggest the obvious: namely, that America is in danger of losing its economic dominance.
There is a real danger that we might come to equate success in the economic system with a successful life, that we might come to identify the material rewards of the system as our goal in life and the source of meaning for us.
When our economic system is based on the incentive of material reward, and works well because of this, it also brings a great spiritual danger.
This challenge presents itself in the form of three dangers: (1) the danger of a growing disparity between economic classes; (2) the danger of materialism, of the rewards of the economic system becoming the goals and values of society; and (3) the danger of a selfish pseudo-individualism that evades individual moral responsibility.
Unless that technological, industrial establishment is radically controlled — thereby effecting a transformation of vast areas of our political, economic and social life — the culture has a very good chance of destroying itself through increasingly inadequate supplies, through endless conflicts for those ever scantier materials, and through the systems of control and authority necessary to cope with each of these dangers.
Steadily rising prices, the danger of continuing inflation, an economic recession as bad or worse than the Great Depression of the early 1930s, and widespread unemployment that can hit almost anywhere give plenty to worry about.
• The confusion of «success» with sheer wealth by individuals, businesses, and corporate boards, which empties economic life of its vocational nobility and inculcates a counter-ethic of beggar - thy - neighbor competition that's a grave danger to markets and a threat to the capacity of free enterprise to help people lift themselves from poverty.
Certainly UNESCO must be as critical of political constraints as it is of economic and cultural constraints on news flow, and the MacBride Report makes these dangers abundantly clear.
By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faiths.
As we have suggested above, 20 leading figures in the business and economic world are warning of the danger of a moral vacuum.
1 The guru of the World Economic Forum, George Soros, has said the same, arguing that a purely transactional approach to economic activity governed by the principle of self - interest, which he labels «market fundamentalism», is in danger of undermining social values and loosening moral constEconomic Forum, George Soros, has said the same, arguing that a purely transactional approach to economic activity governed by the principle of self - interest, which he labels «market fundamentalism», is in danger of undermining social values and loosening moral consteconomic activity governed by the principle of self - interest, which he labels «market fundamentalism», is in danger of undermining social values and loosening moral constraints.2
It is urgent that these values are now translated into practical policies that will reduce the economic inequalities in our world, bring relief to the very poor, protect the environment and reduce the dangers of violence and terrorism.
The economic power of the West played a major role in undermining the Soviet Empire, so that now the danger of major international conflict has drastically receded.
Because the selective nature of television is often overlooked, the diversity of American religious culture is in danger of being narrowed to that particular strand of religious faith which is now being promoted by television largely because of its acceptance and coherence with television's own social and economic goals.
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.
Second, we have to recognise the dangers of reconstituting our political cooperation primarily on economic development.
The danger of globalisation is that it will amplify the gaps between the «winners» and «losers» of change, creating a permanently marginalised minority with no stake in the nation's economic future.
Despite predictions of immediate financial and economic danger since the referendum we have seen consumer confidence remain high, record numbers of jobs and economic growth that has has exceeded all expectations.
Instead, by allying with Ukip and the Tory hard right to wrench Britain out of the key economic and political institutions of modern Europe, you are pursuing a course fraught with danger.
Mr Cable said: «The government is only just waking up to the problem, despite the fact it has been warned for years that there were great economic dangers from the bubble in the housing market, linked to exceptionally high levels of personal borrowing.»
«Today is the moment of maximum economic danger for Britain.
Leading charity warns government is in danger of excluding disabled people from key area of economic policy
Ms Burrow also warned against the dangers of austerity: «Given a choice of economic policies, two - thirds of people support government action to invest in job creation to allow economies to grow and pay off debts compared with less than one in four who want debts paid off now by cutting back on government spending.»
Despite the fact that continuing — and worsening — war in Syria poses serious security and economic dangers to Europe, its political leaders have been constantly refusing to act on its own, and now even in concert with their most powerful ally, the United States of America.
When satire did not work, the next week November 11, 2015, I returned to explicit economic advisory in «Reversing Economic Slowdown» where I noted that «I have been loud in warning about the dangers of allowing the economy slide into recession and the imperative of policy to prevent that eventuality, on social media, in my Businessday column and in discussions on Channels Television and CNBC Africa, but the sense I get is that many are yet in denial about the reality of our economic conditionseconomic advisory in «Reversing Economic Slowdown» where I noted that «I have been loud in warning about the dangers of allowing the economy slide into recession and the imperative of policy to prevent that eventuality, on social media, in my Businessday column and in discussions on Channels Television and CNBC Africa, but the sense I get is that many are yet in denial about the reality of our economic conditionsEconomic Slowdown» where I noted that «I have been loud in warning about the dangers of allowing the economy slide into recession and the imperative of policy to prevent that eventuality, on social media, in my Businessday column and in discussions on Channels Television and CNBC Africa, but the sense I get is that many are yet in denial about the reality of our economic conditionseconomic conditions».
Osborne said fellow finance ministers and central bank chiefs had unanimously concluded that a vote to leave the EU by Britain would be one of the biggest economic dangers this year.
Nicholas Watt: The ERM debacle shows the dangers for an opposition of binding itself to an economic policy before a general election, as Labour did in 1990
Farmers, landowners and conservationists alike have pointed to the economic and environmental dangers of removing all farm payments and applying the «New Zealand model» to UK agriculture.
• Vince Cable has had a good economic war, but is in danger of losing the peace.
The risk of catastrophic danger to the environment, the health of New York State residents and adverse economic impacts that result from hydraulic fracturing far outweigh the potential for job creation and promotion of a natural gas alternative to oil.
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