I heard some interesting
economic ideas from top experts.
Not exact matches
The Hood Incubator derives
from a bold
idea: build political and
economic power for people of color in the legal marijuana industry through community organizing, policy advocacy, and
economic development.
We asked him to share his
ideas for how Calgary can recover
from its current
economic slump and reinvent itself:
Hosted in Singapore, March 6 through 8, with support
from Singapore's
Economic Development Board, Brainstorm Design's mission is to gather the design world's leading voices and to provide a forum for sharing their best
ideas.
Many people argue about what needs to come first in order to create an entrepreneurial community —
ideas or capital — but it's a chicken - and - egg debate, says Brad Whitehead, president of the Fund For Our
Economic Future, a program that pools funding for entrepreneurs
from various philanthropic organizations across Northeast Ohio.
Occupy Wall Street made popular the
idea of a country divided between the 99 % and the 1 %, but its really the chief executives of the nation's biggest businesses that are pulling away in the income race and leaving everyone else behind, according to a new report
from the
Economic Policy Institute.
A rift has emerged in the Canadian
economic community, with Bay Street economists calling for fiscal stimulus
from the federal government while academic economists are openly hostile to the
idea.
Furthermore, without the
economic incentive that comes
from licensing an invention, inventors would reduce their efforts or completely stop producing new
ideas.
For months, congressional Republicans and Trump's former top
economic adviser Gary Cohn — who resigned
from office this week — have been trying to convince the president that imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports is a bad
idea.
'' [The BDC] really had
from the beginning an
idea that there would be
economic benefits to doing something like this,» Tillett says, citing an early
economic impact projection the BDC made at the time of the ETC's founding that estimated 120 jobs would be created by ETC startups over five years.
A portion of the commentary above is an excerpt
from the latest Short Seller's Journal, a weekly newsletter that provides insight on the latest
economic data and provides short - sell
ideas, including strategies for using options.
By correctly diagnosing the cause of America's
economic decline, rather than listening to excuses
from Wall Street and Washington, Jay will offer winning investment
ideas to protect and increase wealth.
The term «hedge fund» comes
from the
idea of hedging against the risk of losing money, or using investment strategies that can make money in any
economic environment.
On Thursday, she said the
idea that
economic growth would cover the budgetary shortfall
from the corporate and personal income tax cuts «nonsense» and «BS.»
In yet another email exchange, Parrott notes that «all the investors will get this very quickly» in response to a message
from Mary Goodman, a managing director at James Caird Asset Management (and a former Senior Advisor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner who later served as Special Assistant to the President for Financial Markets at the National
Economic Council), who stated that the Net Worth Sweep «should lay to rest permanently the
idea that the outstanding privately held pref will ever get turned back on.»
«We believe that especially in times of
economic fragility a lot of the innovation... comes
from those same small business entrepreneurs, because they have the
ideas of what that new value - added economy can look like,» he said.
«The
idea is to incorporate all the protections we expect
from the new Civil Code, and create an
economic effect as close as possible to the LMA,» said Khokhlov.
Central planners and their hard - won reputation... amazingly, economists who generally agree that central
economic planning is a bad
idea, think money is magically excepted
from this rule.
Using a Lean Startup Methodology tailored for communities of color, DID excels at 1) finding Black and Latina women entrepreneurs with high growth companies and game changing
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from the build phase to exit with the goal of helping create companies that have a strong positive impact on the
economic health of their local communities.
This «
economic man», as he came to be called, could hardly be more distant
from the Christian
idea that human nature is based on gift — life received as a gift
from God, love given freely to other men.
Currently we lament and attempt to treat the numerous social,
economic, and political symptoms of liberalism's
idea of liberty but not the deeper sources of those symptoms deriving
from the underlying pathology of liberalism's philosophic commitments.
Purity - impurity
ideas were the religious foundation of caste and it is the return to it by the middle class for spiritual and
economic stability that makes for their shift
from Secularism to Hindutva.
This concept was based on the
idea that the third - world nations could not truly develop until they achieved
economic independence
from the first and second worlds.
I always remember that our imperfect institutions,
from the church to the academy, will be remembered not only by the lofty
ideas of the luminaries at the top, but also by the dreams and visions of those at every rung of the
economic ladder.
The key shift was in the 1970s, when the Court veered away
from strict interpretation of the original meaning of the Convention and adopted instead a policy of interpreting the Convention creatively and, through case law, extending its scope way beyond traditional
ideas of political freedom into questions of
economic and social policy.
The
ideas it promoted — that banks and a wealthy elite have benefited
from the current
economic system at the expense of the rest of us — have infiltrated the mainstream, with the concept of the 99 % resonating profoundly with people across the country.
He told the meeting, organised by the Centre on International Cooperation think tank, that the focus should shift
from «hard» military and
economic means to values and
ideas, or so - called «soft» power.
By changing
economic opportunities, requiring people to move away
from home to find work and (allied to new technologies) making information and
ideas available easily to people without their having to go anywhere, globalisation also facilitated the renewal of national and regional cultures and furthered the visibility and acceptance of, for example, diverse sexualities.
A society based on unsustainable greed and financial «fairy gold» is simply not a good
idea, and the fact that the
economic arguments behind it are shaky offers an opportunity to move on
from this.
Recognizing that strategies to revitalize different parts of the State depend upon numerous factors unique to each region and that the best
ideas come
from the people who live in those regions, Governor Cuomo is proposing a process that will include and engage local stakeholders in developing and executing sustainable long - term, regional
economic development strategies.
I think it's a unique
idea, it could work, but my concern would be that there would be a separation of the college completely with an
economic role over here, and academics separate
from it.»
The other
idea doing the round in Westminster is that he could go off to chair a new global
economic taskforce, either within or separate
from the IMF.
The campaign is not only based on extremely weak arguments but also on the
idea that Labour should go into the next election saying «We believe not only that free movement should be possible with the countries with which we have the closest
economic ties but also
from every where else in the world.
Closely related to
economic liberalism, it developed in the early 19th century, building on
ideas from the previous century as a response to urbanization and to the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the United States.
He is of the view government needs varied
ideas and inputs
from all Ghanaians including people outside the NPP to to propel
economic growth.
Open Buffalo is a shared vision of an equal, just, and free city driven by a united and empowered community, open to full democratic participation, innovative
ideas and policies, new leaders
from diverse communities, and meaningful
economic opportunity and sustainable wealth creation for all.
Massey offered the
idea of building «a bridge, a tunnel and a subway»
from Manhattan to Long Island City, Queens in order to spark
economic development.
Among the
ideas excluded
from any final budget deal: creation of a database that the public could search for how much every recipient of
economic development spending got and how many jobs they created; end the ability by limited liability companies to skirt campaign donation limits; give back certain contract pre-approval powers to the state Comptroller, the state's fiscal watchdog; strengthen the state's criminal laws to better define bribery of public officials; and create an independent watchdog agency to police ethics issues in Albany.
«On issues ranging
from transportation to healthcare, she has the right
ideas to expand
economic opportunity and improve quality of life for all New Yorkers.»
«By bringing together
ideas from local government and community leaders with state resources, we are giving these councils the tools to create jobs and drive
economic activity in their communities for generations to come.
Since the 2008 crisis, there has been increasing interest in using
ideas from complexity theory to make sense of
economic and financial markets.
While
economic theory lends no general support to the
idea that removing distortions
from one market must lead to an improvement in general welfare, much free - market politics assumes that it does so.
The initiative is an attempted, kind of, grassroots intellectual movement to come up with a series of
ideas that will move us towards a more stable
economic arena, [in] which the middle - class gets more benefits than it is getting now
from the wealth in this country, and also puts the country on a trajectory that supports the good things the country has traditionally done.
But when you hit the wall at a more difficult
economic time, you'll need to pull
from the larger pool of
ideas.
From all appearances it seems that all women want to escape from Russia because Russia is in a very difficult social and political and economic situation.I hate to disappoint you, but that type of thinking isjust a stereotype.Growing up, it seems that each generation has their own stereotypical idea about what Russia is and how hercitizens resp
From all appearances it seems that all women want to escape
from Russia because Russia is in a very difficult social and political and economic situation.I hate to disappoint you, but that type of thinking isjust a stereotype.Growing up, it seems that each generation has their own stereotypical idea about what Russia is and how hercitizens resp
from Russia because Russia is in a very difficult social and political and
economic situation.I hate to disappoint you, but that type of thinking isjust a stereotype.Growing up, it seems that each generation has their own stereotypical
idea about what Russia is and how hercitizens respond.
Their thought - provoking commentary,
ideas and impassioned anecdotal insights are presented in the form of essays, think pieces and poems that draw together a wealth of research on the issue and probe and discredit the current view on what is best for children
from poorer socio -
economic backgrounds.
«The
idea is to give more countries, rich and poor, access to comparing themselves against the world's education leaders, to discover their relative strengths and weaknesses, and to see what the long - term
economic gains
from improved quality in schooling could be for them,» said OECD education director Andreas Schleicher.
Bright
IDEA requires teachers and principals to undergo professional development together and to evaluate their dispositions toward students
from diverse populations and socio -
economic groups.
«We chose to give to the Greater Good fund because we have been so happy with the Great Hearts approach for our daughter, and the
idea that the same high - level academic environment and classical education is offered in communities that are less fortunate than ours is very important... I see the Great Hearts schools as a larger community, and it's important to us that this community be diverse and support young people
from all socio -
economic backgrounds.»
Already, the solutions are coming: The superintendent's multi-cultural advisory committee will get new members
from more diverse
economic backgrounds, reflecting the reality of many struggling families; likewise, the student advisory committee, usually made up of the «best and brightest,» also will include new, less - successful student members whose
ideas and issues also need to be included.