Sentences with phrase «economic disruption»

As with many major economic disruptions, no one is exactly sure.

Gold has been used during times of inflation, currency weakness and other economic disruptions.

In contrast to discretionary products like homes, cars, and restaurant meals, demand for staples holds up even during economic disruptions.

The mission of the Office of Housing is to: Contribute to building and preserving healthy neighborhoods and communities Maintain and expand homeownership, rental housing, and healthcare opportunities Stabilize credit markets in times of economic disruption Operate with a high degree of public and fiscal accountability Recognize and value its customers, staff, constituents, and partners

He delivered a speech Friday that threw into doubt whether the Powell Put exists — at least with respect to potential economic disruption from a trade war.

This question is especially acute in the UK because of the prospects of severe economic disruption as a result of Brexit.»

This well - known target, which supposedly represents the «safe» limit of climate change, has always been a highly political choice that has more to do with minimizing economic disruption than with protecting the greatest number of people.

Periodic outbreaks of the disease in sub-Saharan Africa, including an epidemic between 2013 and 2016, caused major loss of life and serious economic disruption in the three countries where it occurred: Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

On Climate Change: Earth's changing climate is a critical issue and poses the risk of significant environmental, social and economic disruptions around the globe.

But that poses the risk of calamitous economic disruption if a White House with limited success on Capitol Hill fails to gather and accurately count the necessary votes.

Nor is it safe to assume the businessman in Trump ultimately will keep economic disruption to a minimum.

Canadian banks, ranked the soundest by the World Economic Forum, can withstand major economic disruptions because they moved more quickly than their competitors to raise capital buffers, the country's banking regulator said.

The FOMC statement acknowledged that late - summer hurricanes had caused mild economic disruptions but that they were unlikely to persist over the medium term.

But in all likelihood, it will take much more economic disruption to dislodge Putin.

«To avoid the kind of long - term economic disruption we are now facing, Government, engineers and the entire supply chain need to work together to make the infrastructure as a whole more resilient — and adapt it to cope with the anticipated increase in flooding as result of climate change.

Jacqui Patterson, director of the Environment and Climate Change Justice Program at the NAACP headquarters in Baltimore, said impacts of climate change are entwined with class, race, lack of political clout and economic disruption when polluting industries close.

With the addition of the Range Rover Velar and the fifth - generation Land Rover Discovery, as well as filling out the Jaguar lineup with the XE compact sedan and F - Pace crossover, JLR's volume should easily top 600,000 vehicles in 2017 — barring any dramatic economic disruptions.

Considering it will take years for any changes to go into effect in Europe, many lenders are looking to prepare themselves far ahead of time, ensuring there are minimal economic disruptions in the future.

Wouldn't C&D be more effective (and cause less economic disruption) if complementary efficiency goals were in place?

«There won't be enough votes to pass the bill if it forces economic disruption,» Boucher told me.

As British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett warned the U.N. Security Council, the risk of massive economic disruption and «migration on an unprecedented scale» make climate change a true security threat.

Fossil fuels are so fundamental to the operation of capitalism and the world today that serious reductions, if they were even tried under capitalism, would lead to a period of extraordinary economic disruption.

Because energy is so ubiquitous to our lives, it is critical that lawmakers implement market - oriented energy policies that allow energy to be produced more efficiently at lower costs with fewer economic disruptions and lower environmental impacts.

In a short final chapter called «Reflections,» Weart offers his personal ideas on the best course of action to limit risks from warming while avoiding big economic disruptions.

The Renewable Fuel Standard has impeded important State goals, including maintaining affordable food and fiber prices, with resulting economic disruptions.

As economic disruption continues to have a chilling effect on cash economies, digital currencies, which enable secure, peer - to - peer payments without the interference of central governments or banks, are gaining increased attention.

In 2014, he put 1 % of his net worth into Bitcoin, judging that the digital currency's potential for large - scale economic disruption (see Forbes» cover story on the coin revolution) outweighed the risk of a total loss.

To minimize economic disruption, the commission advised that the government cap the cost by selling extra permits starting at $ 7 per metric ton of CO2 in 2010 with a 5 percent annual increase.

«However, we may see more volatility in the next few months as communities affected by the recent hurricanes experience construction delays and other economic disruptions.»

Eight countries in southern Asia — and a quarter of the world's population — face severe environmental and economic disruption as the climate changes over the coming decades, warns the Climate Institute, a think - tank in Washington DC.

Periodic outbreaks of the disease in sub-Saharan Africa caused major loss of life and serious economic disruption.

After getting the best geophysics assessments (Not the politicized IEA) to assess not only timing but shape of subsequent downslope (how hard and fast the show will pinch), then we should adopt no regrets policies to minimize world economic disruption.

A new era of severe environmental and economic disruption around the world upends freshwater supplies.