Sentences with phrase «economic history as»

The resources sector will, no doubt, continue to make an important contribution to the Australian economy, but it is unlikely that it will shape the next chapter in our economic history as it did the current chapter.

Not exact matches

But the only similar environment in modern economic history can still serve as a decent guide to the future.

The disintegration of investment in nonresidential structures and machinery and equipment subtracted almost a full percentage point from GDP; only 2009 and 1982 were worse in that regard, and neither of those years stand out as high points in Canada's economic history.

As per the title, he thinks the urban environment is our greatest invention as a species, and explores the economic underpinnings of assorted cities, ascendant and in decline, today and through historAs per the title, he thinks the urban environment is our greatest invention as a species, and explores the economic underpinnings of assorted cities, ascendant and in decline, today and through historas a species, and explores the economic underpinnings of assorted cities, ascendant and in decline, today and through history.

Over the past decade, patient investors benefited greatly from one of the longest economic expansions in U.S. history, using stocks, gold and even cryptocurrency as vehicles of profit.

The Trump campaign counters the history of bad blood between Trump and the Bay Area, saying it values the tech industry as a driver of economic growth, according to Re / code.

As I begin another chapter in my life, I leave feeling fulfilled with what we have accomplished as a government and a country during one of the most challenging economic periods in our country's historAs I begin another chapter in my life, I leave feeling fulfilled with what we have accomplished as a government and a country during one of the most challenging economic periods in our country's historas a government and a country during one of the most challenging economic periods in our country's history.

Realizing that Jews have been the scapegoats of all Western history, that they have been made to bear responsibility for everything from the Black Death to the economic ills of the Germans, these observers fear that the enormous increase in Jewish numbers in America will lead to charges that the Jews have monopolized the opportunities for economic advance and that these charges will pave the way for Fascism here as they paved the way for Hitler in Germany.

Cities» economic allure is as old as recorded history, and young people will keep coming.

Finland's crippling financial collapse in the early»90s brought fresh economic challenges to this «confident and assertive Eurostate,» as David Kirby calls it in A Concise History of Finland.

Her areas of research include political, economic, and business history, as well as the history of capitalism.

Dr. Michael Hudson joins Double Down to talk about the economic reality behind the Trump voter and about whether or not, as it is claimed, Hillary Clinton is the «most progressive» candidate in Democratic history.

In this respect its history in Britain is as much the story of political expediency as one of economic principles in the abstract.

If you've been on the site for awhile, you have a head start because we've already discussed the importance of a discipline known as asset allocation, which involves selecting among different asset classes to build a well - balanced portfolio that can weather different economic environments, tax regimes, global conditions, inflation or deflation, and a host of other variables that history has shown will fluctuate over time.

«Until very recently, it was taken as a given that tech equaled progress and tech equaled good and tech equaled economic strength,» said Leslie Berlin, the author of Troublemakers, a history of Silicon Valley.

Over the years, his study of monetary history and current economic events has convinced him that it would be prudent to hold some gold as crisis insurance.

Discussing the complacency and complicity of traditional economic models, as taught in universities and adopted by central banks, Michael and Steve take us on a journey from a solar system to a galaxy of thought, taking in the history of economics to solutions for the ongoing global depression.

But as Temin and Vines show, history is much more usefully seen as the evolution of often complex institutions — financial, political, legal, cultural, and so on — through which economic behavior is mediated and which affect the ways in which recurring patterns of finance, commerce and trade unfold, and that without an understanding of history we lose so much complexity in our models that we often end up making very obvious mistakes.

In his book The Man and His Wonderful Shaving Device — King C. Gillette, biographer Russell B. Adams, Jr. noted, «King C. Gillette had thought he might be remembered as one of history's social and economic reformers.

«Furthermore, in the main, historians educated as Keynesians and monetarists do not understand the economic history of money, let alone the difference between a gold standard and a gold - exchange standard.

It betrays legislative history, which reveals that Congress passed antitrust laws to promote a host of political economic ends — including our interests as workers, producers, entrepreneurs, and citizens.

Economic contraction in the U.S. and Europe in the early and mid 1970s did not lead immediately to economic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country receEconomic contraction in the U.S. and Europe in the early and mid 1970s did not lead immediately to economic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country receeconomic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country recessions).

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

2016.05.06 RBC provides $ 2 million in support of families and communities impacted by wildfires and economic downturn in Alberta Today, RBC announced a donation of $ 2 million to support families and communities affected by the wildfires and the recent economic downturn in Alberta, as part of its longstanding history of helping Canadians...

In this episode we discuss the ancient history of debt cancellation, the untold life of Jesus as an economic justice activist, and more largely Professor Hudson's forthcoming book,»... and forgive them their debts,» out in summer...

But history and economic analysis both point to a self - stabilizing process as cheap oil supports economic activity and modestly boosts energy demand.

Great dollar rally of 2014 as Fukuyama's History returns in tooth and claw China and Japan are on a quasi-war footing, one misjudgement away from a chain of events that would shatter all economic assumptions (By Ambrose Evans - Pritchard Tks Fred!)

In summary, a 23 - year period in which the US economy achieved the strongest real growth in its history is strangely characterised in some quarters as a «great depression», quite likely because so many economists and historians do not understand that real economic progress puts DOWNWARD pressure on prices.

Sheila C. Bair served as Chairman of the FDIC from 2006 - 2011, during one of the most turbulent economic eras in history, and was among TIME magazine's 100 most influential people.

Knowledge of economic history is critical for good policy making because, as valuable as it is to understand models and theories, in real life policies have to be made in societies that are complex and have political and sociological considerations to take into account.

Professor Woo, President of the newly established Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia, talks about the watershed moment in the country's recent economic history and argues for a bi-partisan consensus around «an inclusive national development» plan as the only way forward.

History will judge the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement as an important legacy of Stephen Harper's term as prime minister.

Conclusion Intervention by governments and central banks in the workings of a free market has been one of history's great economic debates, and will certainly continue as such.

Once in office, Trump appointed the most disproportionately enplaned administration in history: According to Forbes, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has a Dassault Falcon; Linda McMahon, the Small Business Administration administrator, has a Bombardier Global; Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her family maintain a fleet of 12 private jets, including a Boeing and six Gulfstreams, as well as four helicopters; Gary Cohn, the chairman of the National Economic Council, and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross each retain private - jet shares in a fractional - ownership arrangement.

He also favored Toryism against Whiggism in politics and in history, and urged the cause of economic freedom as a precondition of political liberty.

The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.

Here we see John Paul's sense of the importance of culture as the interpretive key to history and the exposure of what Weigel calls the Jacobin and Marxist fallacies» the illusions that history is driven by a quest for power and that history is the «exhaust fumes of impersonal economic forces.»

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

With the definition of religion given, Marxism would have to be considered a religion, at least for those who do not use it as a means to some political or economic end, but who find «in the conception of the «dialectic of history» with its inevitability, its total relevance, its impersonal justice - making power, the object of supreme valuation and complete relevance to life....

In history's ongoing struggle between despotism and self - government, he was prepared to believe that America was earth's «last best hope» - not as the world's economic colossus or imperial hegemon but as an exemplar of what politics, with all its limitations, can accomplish.

This understanding of God is evident in Pannenberg's link between the immanent Trinitv (God's eternal essence) and the economic Trinity (God as active in salvation history).

In pursuing this vision he started, as others did, from Karl Rahner's rule that the «immanent» and the «economic» Trinity» the eternal God and His activity in the history of salvation» are one.

She deftly summarizes the emergence of New York as the nation's economic capital, the history of debates over slavery, the emergence of the women's suffrage movement, and countless other currents, all of which shaped the 19th - century U.S. and the course of Beecher's life.

However,» caste is now seen as the major socio - economic formative force in shaping and understanding the history of Dalits.

His own broad reach of interests is reflected in his remark that «to think as a Christian is to try to understand the stellar spaces, the arrangements of micro-organisms and DNA molecules, the history of Tibet, the operation of economic markets, toothache, King Lear, the CIA, and grandma's cooking — or, as Aquinas put it, «all things» in relation to that uttering, utterance and enactment of God which they express and represent.

As much as American religion is «American,» it is also local, shaped by the particular history of immigration and economic forces of each place, as well as the particular landscape that often fires religious imaginationAs much as American religion is «American,» it is also local, shaped by the particular history of immigration and economic forces of each place, as well as the particular landscape that often fires religious imaginationas American religion is «American,» it is also local, shaped by the particular history of immigration and economic forces of each place, as well as the particular landscape that often fires religious imaginationas well as the particular landscape that often fires religious imaginationas the particular landscape that often fires religious imaginations.

The principle of just intent (or «right reasons,» as Bush invoked it) has been degraded as U.S. actions have escalated from defense of Saudi Arabia and economic sanctions to a massive offensive deployment; to the initiation of history's most devastating air assault, which has severely disrupted civilian life; to the imprudent demand for unconditional surrender.

His analysis calls for reintegration of the history of science with social, economic and political history just as his philosophical proposals call for integration with current reasons for making science, technology and medicine more accessible and accountable.

Here Niebuhr, Brunner, and Barth share the same general position, though with some differences in emphasis.13 They all agree that the social orders which form the structure of human history, such as the family, the state, the economic order, betray an essential separation of man from God.

Residential schools, forced assimilation, racism, systemic murder, crippling economic inequalities, lack of adequate schooling, we have a disgusting history as a nation when it comes to our First Nations.