Sentences with phrase «economic history held»

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Fed Chair Janet Yellen holds a news conference after the central bank took the first tentative steps Wednesday to unwind its history - making economic stimulus.

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.

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

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.

It is not the material factors of economic production, military might, and technological development, but the underlying ideas, ideals, goals, and norms which are strongly held on a mass basis that determine the course of history.

I still believe, as I put it in chapter two, that «software», not «hardware» — the long, slow waves of cultural change, not the more obvious technological and economic changes that figure so prominently in public debate and academic social science — hold the key to the British predicament; that our ills form an interdependent system or, in medical language, a «syndrome»; and that they reflect the bewilderment and disorientation of a people who have forgotten the history that shaped them, and who therefore no longer know who they are.

Governor Aregbesola held that the role of Nigeria's workers in the history of economic sustainability and good governance could not be over-emphasized, adding that the current administration needs the support of all and sundry especially the workers to succeed.

Ahead of the 2015 General Election, Anthony Seldon wrote a clear introduction to this expert volume of essays, setting out the observation that David Cameron's place in history was already secured: for holding the coalition itself together; significantly improving the economic outlook; overseeing some steady domestic reform; restoring dignity to the PM's office; and winning the Scottish referendum (25).

Beyond the socio - economic benefits, Black teachers held the promise of political power, and they would partner with clergymen, businessmen and parents in the community to raise up a generation of African - American youth who knew their history and affirmed a collective narrative about our Blackness: We are intellectual.

In a unanimous vote on 10/28/11, the OEA Executive Board endorsed Occupy Oakland's November 2 «General Strike / Mass Day of Action» and is urging members to participate in a variety of ways, including taking personal leave to join actions at Frank Ogawa Plaza, doing informational picketing at school sites, and holding teach - ins on the history of general strikes and organizing for economic justice.

The good news is that, once there is a consensus that Buy - and - Hold can never work, we will likely have the greatest period of economic growth in U.S. history.

She holds a MA degree in economic and social history from the University of Amsterdam and worked as historian at the International Institute for Social History, during which she published her book on plantations in the Dutch East history from the University of Amsterdam and worked as historian at the International Institute for Social History, during which she published her book on plantations in the Dutch East History, during which she published her book on plantations in the Dutch East Indies.

New Orleans» geographic position and economic history have made it a gateway for trade and travel between the United States, Europe, and the Global South, and it has long been considered a site for indulgence, hedonism, and no - holds - barred fun.

Ideas of the nation - state, comparative histories and the economic and institutional currency of geography, among other typical or potential frameworks, are held in critical relief.

He has been president of the Economic History Association, the Western Economics Association International, and the International Society for the New Institutional Economics, and he holds high - level appointments at several top institutions around the country.

She also holds a MSc in economics and public policy from Sciences Po and École Polytechnique, and a MSc in economic history from the London School of Economics.

I am unaware of any person who has been held accountable in any way for the biggest deliberate deception in history that has created completely unnecessary social and economic upheaval and wasted trillions of dollars.

I just can't understand (and it angers me) how Mooney is invited to give talks everywhere and invited onto the AGU Board of Directors and held up as some master communicator when he's so extremely politically biased, and to boot knows absolutely nothing of the science — and now his new book is actually suggesting that conservatives are somehow medically or psychologically deficient for believing «more wrong things» (that's a quote from his book advertisement), and not just in science but also in history, economic policy, and foreign policy!

«This book aims to demonstrate how the profession has held to its anachronistic ways at key crisis points in US history: Watergate, communist infiltration, arrival of waves of immigrants, the litigation explosion, the civility crisis, and the current economic crisis that blends with dramatic changes in technology and communications and globalization.