Sentences with phrase «economic equivalent»

In keynote speech at Lib Dem conference, business secretary says reduction in inequality is needed to turn economy around as UK faces «economic equivalent of war»

For years the industry has maintained that mortgage insurance premiums are the functional and economic equivalent of mortgage interest — essentially compensation for the use of money — and therefore should be treated in the same way by the tax code.

One of the reasons the provinces are facing such difficulty is that Oliver based his response to the downturn on the economic equivalent of old wives» tales.

These choices, the evidence says, will change Alberta from a world - class commercial competitor into the economic equivalent of a second - or third - string hockey player.

«It's the economic equivalent of flat - earth trade policy.»

The Clinton Campaign needs to lend its weight toward helping the state parties build themselves back up — the economic equivalent of job creation as opposed to subsidies.

• Vince Cable has said that Britain is embroiled in «the economic equivalent of war».

• Cable said that Britain was in the midst of a crisis that was «the economic equivalent of war».

«We now face a crisis that is the economic equivalent of war.

In sombre tones he did indeed acknowledge that there are no sunny uplands as we «now face a crisis that is the economic equivalent of war».

The rigidity of the engine block that allowed it to be used as a chassis was the economic equivalent of what Charles Darwin called a «preadaptation» in biology.

Last year, McKinsey & Company released an analysis that concluded the nation's achievement gaps have imposed «the economic equivalent of a permanent national recession» on America.

Labeling the Republicans» economic platform the «economic equivalent of creationism,» Roubini says a lack of bi-partisanism on fiscal issues could lead to a debt crisis and possibly send the U.S. into a Japanese - style bout of stagflation.

The ability of borrowers to deduct MI premiums from federal income taxes should be made permanent because MI premiums are the economic equivalent of mortgage interest payments, and so should remain deductible and at parity with mortgage interest payments.

The Austrian School is the economic equivalent of Intelligent Design, and taken just as seriously by anyone who knows what they're talking about.

The economic equivalent is the Great Depression and the boom of post WWII; both were radical swings for and against the larger trend of greater trade and prosperity for the USA from founding to today (And if one substitutes public debt to CO2 emissions and switches arguments oddly similar debates arise with the same amount of acrimony on solutions).

«Subsidizing, say, a pro-drug war point of view through a government PR campaign (hardly a partisan issue, as the overwhelming majority of both Republican and Democratic politicians favor it) is the economic equivalent of taxing the anti-drug war point of view.»

«Well, this country is in the economic equivalent of war today — and we need the same spirit,» he said.

Complaining about gas prices is the economic equivalent of complaining about the weather: it's a conversation - starter, a chance to grumble about something slightly confusing.

This cap can be viewed as the economic equivalent of the «law of diminishing returns»; when you add more employees to get a job done there is an increase in productivity to a point and after that point efficiency drops.

(6) A lease of real estate is entered into, unless the lease is the economic equivalent of a purchase or sale of the leased real estate;