Sentences with phrase «economic problems of today»

(Last Word, «The Fiscal Horizon,» March / April 2013) He enumerates the economic problems of today, Medicare, Medicaid, education, infrastructure... with the only solution being deficit spending.

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And while we are certainly facing economic problems today — Euro debt, U.S. joblessness — they are not of the same magnitude as in 2008.

Counterpunch Today's deepening financial and economic crisis can not be alleviated without addressing a number of problems that the public does not really want to hear about.

Unfortunately, Mr. Krugman's failure to see today's economic problem as one of debt deflation reflects his failure (suffered by most economists, to be sure) to recognize the need for debt writedowns, for restructuring the banking and financial system, and for shifting taxes off labor back onto property, economic rent and asset - price («capital») gains.

The «Lost Decade» has turned into the «Lost Two Decades», and many of the same economic problems continue to plague the nation today.

Today growing points are along the frontiers of modern science, in relation to other religions and to the economic and political problems of our time.

On the contrary, he said, «To judge from the behavior and the achievements of the wealthy classes today in any quarter of the world, the outlook is very depressing» and he added: «If the economic problem is solved, mankind will be deprived of its traditional purpose... must we not expect a nervous breakdown?»

Though I wrote these words eight years ago, I don't think the concerns of sports moms have changed all that much and that what I said then largely still hold true today, although I think, if I were to update the list of concerns, I would probably add two more: fifth, that mothers want a more inclusive youth sports experience that is affordable to all families, regardless of socio - economic status or whether they live in a wealthy suburb or an economically disadvantaged inner city neighborhood, and sixth, that mothers want a better balance between sports and family life (a problem I explored in the book and on these pages, but that, if anything, has gotten worse, not better, in the last eight years).

Accepting this slogan risks failing to learn from a rich republican tradition, whose insights are relevant to many of the social and economic problems being encountered today, not simply the emergence of a super-wealthy economic elite.

«That this House notes that young people today grow up in an increasingly complex financial world requiring them to make difficult decisions for the future, often without the necessary level of financial literacy; believes that financial education will help address the national problem of irresponsible borrowing and personal insolvency and that teaching people about budgeting and personal finance will help equip the workforce with the necessary skills to succeed in business and drive forward economic growth; further believes that the country has a duty to equip its young people properly through education to make informed financial decisions; and calls on the Government to consider the provision of financial education as part of the current curriculum review.»

Today's ComRes poll showing a small plurality of voters actually trusting Brown and Darling more than Cameron and Osborne on the matter of steering the economy through the current downturn perhaps can be attributed to the degree to which economic problems of recent weeks really have been mostly international - and obviously so.

A new report published today claims most of the problems associated with the use of illegal firearms in the UK require social and economic rather than criminal justice solutions.

While an increase in population from 6.8 billion today to closer to 10 billion by mid-century will make sustainable living on the planet a challenge, especially since the bulk of that growth will be among those living in poverty who have a moral claim to economic development, the real problem may not be human numbers so much as human behavior.

Today, famine strikes Sub-Saharan African countries the hardest, but with ongoing wars, internal struggles, and economic failure, famine continues to be a worldwide problem with millions of individuals suffering.

When I look at the biggest economic problems facing the world today, many of them stem from deeper cultural problems.

The vast majority of flights operate without problems, although the reality of air travel in the world today is that congestion and economic pressures can lead to the possibility of lost luggage, delay, cancellation and overbooking.

The synergistic impacts of economic upheaval, energy - related natural resource destruction and changes in our global climate — are not problems that will manifest later in the 21st century, but are real crises unfolding today.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

The economic uniqueness of the climate - change problem is not just that today's decisions have difficult - to - reverse impacts that will be felt very far out into the future, thereby straining the concept of time discounting and placing a heavy burden on the choice of an interest rate.

He said that from an economic point of view, it would be more rational to spend lots of money on today's other big problems, and only make small and limited changes in policies relating to global warming, such as a slight increase in gasoline or carbon taxes.

Doppelt believes climate change as well as many of today's pressing social and economic problems result from outdated and flawed assumptions about the way the world works and what it means to live a decent and honorable life.

FRONTLINE and the Center for Investigative Reporting go behind the scenes to explore how bi-partisan political and economic forces prevented the U.S. government from confronting what may be one of the most serious problems facing humanity today.

In the middle of last night's standoff in Liberty Plaza over cleaning of the quasi-private space that Occupy Wall Street has been occupying for four weeks (thankfully and sensibly defused), a call to action was issued, blaming economic neoliberalism (colloquially today, globalization) for much of the socioecologiconomic problems we're facing.

«Despite the problems retail tenants are having and despite concerns about the impact of the economic slowdown on retail sales, there is a surprising amount of capital in the market today for shopping centers,» said George Good, senior vice president of the CB Richard Ellis Institutional Group, Chicago.

«Despite the problems retail tenants are having and despite concerns about the impact of the economic slowdown on retail sales, there is a surprising amount of capital in the market today for shopping centers,» said George Good, senior vice-president of the CB Richard Ellis Institutional Group, Chicago.

The continuing drop in jobless claims — considered a signal of future economic trends — shows that the problem with today's job market isn't layoffs but rather the modest and unsteady hiring at companies.

In the UK, mortgages with an LTV of up to 125 % were quite common in the run - up to the national / global economic problems, but today (November 2011) there are very few mortgages available with an LTV of over 90 % - and 75 % LTV mortgages are the most common.