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As digital currency becomes more integrated and interconnected with the economic system at large, emphasis should be placed on «support monitoring and timely identification of emerging financial stability risks.»

At this week's Gamescom, Paradox Interactive has unveiled some details about the game's economic system at a press conference.

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.

What would happen throughout the whole economic system at home and abroad?

«It means reversing this long time economic model, where the state will profit through the economic system at the expense of the consumers and household, and one of the things that the new leadership is intent on doing in order to create consumption is to empower consumers, so they spend more and stop empowering state organizations which are fuelling the overcapacity and the massive debt bubble».

Not exact matches

Also, while consumer debt is falling and corporate debt is not yet at crisis levels, keep in mind that government debt has skyrocketed — ironically, as a response to slow growth in the global economic system.

Around the main table, from left: Ontario Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure Giles Gherson; Joris Myny of Siemens Canada; Michael Sinnaeve of Magna International; James Cowan, editor of Canadian Business; Eric Kiisel of ATS Automation Tooling Systems; Tony Elias of Valiant Corp.; and Paul Boothe of Ivey Business School.

In January and February, the U.S. trade deficit with those three large economic systems, accounting for about 40 percent of world's demand and output, was running at an annual rate of $ 612.3 billion, a 3 percent increase from the same period of 2017.

During a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January, Harper cited the demographic changes threatening Canada's retirement income system.

John Komlos, professor emeritus of economic history at the University of Munich, says that the stagnation of growth in the USA compared to Northern European populations could be due to different national healthcare systems: for example, the Dutch have access to socialized medicine that Americans do not.

But the ability to bounce back and set your own destiny is at the foundation of our economic system.

Cities also need to continue upgrading their transit systems, so while there may be spending pauses during tough economic times, that money has to be spent at some point.

Like the rest of Europe, Italy has endemic problems: A north - south divide and economic divergence, corruption and bureaucracy as well as troubles with migration, anti-establishment politics and a political system that is sluggish at best, and chaotic at worst.

Without a system for identifying regulations damaging to small business and addressing them in a targeted way, the executive order is meaningless, says Michael Mandel, chief economic strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that seeks nonpartisan solutions to national challenges.

Obviously, besides immediately abandoning its propaganda campaign, the Chinese government should reassure the global business community with concrete, honest, realistic, and market - based solutions that address the underlying pathologies of China's poor economic performance: massive debt, endemic overcapacity, and an economic system that channels low - cost capital into inefficient state - owned enterprises at the expense of private entrepreneurs and consumers.

Also stymied by the American immigration system — which meets only a fraction of the demand for economic green cards each year — was South African Jonathan Hitchcock, 34, who was at first disheartened that his «dream job» would be shunted to Canada.

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«If you can move people from city to city at 1,200 (745 miles per hour) to 1,300 kilometers per hour, you have a system that can reshape society,» he explained, suggesting that as distances shrink, economic productivity could increase as traffic disappears.

At a time when abusive patent litigation is stifling economic growth and putting companies of all sizes at risk, my Administration is taking action to protect innovators and keep our patent system stronAt a time when abusive patent litigation is stifling economic growth and putting companies of all sizes at risk, my Administration is taking action to protect innovators and keep our patent system stronat risk, my Administration is taking action to protect innovators and keep our patent system strong.

Some researchers argue that it is impossible to determine when a contractor is truly working for a company during the times when the worker is waiting to pick up a ride, because the driver could be using two applications at once or attending to personal business.100 However, as noted in a 2016 report by the Economic Policy Institute, both Uber and Lyft already have guaranteed pay plans that they use in some markets during certain hours that pay workers guaranteed minimum earnings per hour based on their entire time logged into the system, including waiting times.101

After all, we were told at the time that if taxpayers didn't open their wallets and bail out the banks, we could face a complete meltdown of the global financial system and an economic fate rivaling the Great -LSB-...]

Gross adds that the global monetary system, which has evolved and morphed over the past century but always in the direction of easier, cheaper and more abundant credit, may have reached a point at which it can no longer operate efficiently and equitably to promote economic growth and the fair distribution of its benefits.

«The big problem in the Italian system is that they acted very late,» said Silvia Merler, an affiliate fellow at Bruegel, a European research firm that focuses on economic issues.

We're at a line in the sand here, where we can continue blindly marching over the cliff, or we can get a grip: ramp down fossil fuel use immediately, get an economic system geared to fixing up the mess we've made instead of enriching the few who already have far more than enough, nourish an ideology of cooperation instead of competition, and put the technology to more intelligent uses than convenience and mindless diversion.

It is fundamental to the way the growth model works, and we have arrived at the stage, probably described most imaginatively by Hyman Minsky in his work on balance sheets, in which the system requires an acceleration in credit growth simply to maintain existing levels of economic activity.

Gary Siegel has been at The Bond Buyer since 1989, currently covering economic indicators and the Federal Reserve system.

Spending on enterprise information technology is set to accelerate, fueled by U.S. corporate tax cuts, global economic gains and a backlog of aging corporate IT systems that need to be replaced, Oracle's Mark Hurd said Monday at an event in New York.

As the indicator in Chart 4 suggests, even as the Fed has recently raised interest rates under their control, monetary conditions remain a long way from being sufficiently «tight» to restrict financial system liquidity and putting the economic expansion at risk.

It must also look at ways to increase revenue growth through strengthening economic growth and through simplifying and reforming the tax system.

Experts worry that the United States» actions could ignite a trade war, noting that Chinese economic officials have a keen understanding of the American system and are good at designing targeted retaliatory measures against American agricultural products and other exports.

After confronting the «knowledge problem» at the heart of discretionary monetary policy — that policymakers are unable to know the true structure of an increasingly complex and global economic system — Dorn calls for the establishment of a Centennial Monetary Commission to evaluate the performance of the Fed over its 100 - plus years of discretionary monetary authority and to discuss how best to reform the country's central bank.

Jesus would have been disgusted at an economic system rooted in nothing but greed.

Most significant, the imminence of the final coming of the Kingdom of God dominated the thinking of many in the early church and lowered the priority accorded to worldly goods, economic systems and attempts at social transformation.

However, whereas progressive Christianity interprets this to mean that the church must remain aloof from involvement with political parties and economic interests, the fourth church, at the urging of its forceful thinkers, supports the best systems available.

«We clearly have a global economic system that allows this to happen,» Eldebo said, «We need to look beyond the numbers at what the actual consequence is for this because what we're seeing from our work is clearly we have 3 billion people who have very little.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

In this chapter we will look at our approach as individuals to possessions and the use of money, and then in Chapter 18 we will consider the economic system itself.

In short, it must be an economic system better at raising up the poor of the world» and more quickly» than any known alternative.

The Jeffersonian hope for America was a society where the freedom of each person and family was reinforced by their possessing and working a small plot of land, giving them at least partial independence from the larger economic system.

For example, it is unlikely that there are any rules that define the ideal economic or political system for all people at all periods in history.

That place is our human condition that is spelled out in Watergate; mangled bodies and land in Indochina; dry, dusty, suffering starvation in Africa; inconceivable poverty, oppression and torture in South America; humiliation and wretchedness in the slums here «at home»: and all this supported by economic structures and a system which we have supported and which destroys human beings and rapes the good earth.

To repeat: a cursory look at the nations of the world makes it clear that the important differences in social responsibility and freedom are between the democratic types (of both capitalist and socialist economic system) and the despotic types, not between capitalism and socialism as such.

It can not be denied that the particular economic system in these societies at least made this disparity possible.

Workingmen were utterly at the mercy of an economic system that paid pitifully low wages and offered absolutely no security.

Greider, a senior journalist at the Nation, and Wight, an economist at the University of Richmond, understand that capitalism is more than a technical economic system and that it is supported by more than rational argument.

Unfortunately, at the same time that many world leaders are recognizing the limitations of the neo-liberal economic system, the United States government is even more fully committed to this than in the past.

At the other extreme, many variants of world - system theory and some variants of the other perspectives regard economic development as inherently productive of conflict, oppression, and exploitation.

Through the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas it is forcing on the whole of Latin America an economic system that gives free reign to corporations to expand their quest for short - term profits at whatever cost to the people and resources of these countries.

Most at home in exposing and criticizing institutional systems for their shortcomings, Greider is less convincing in his attempts to construct a hopeful economic future.

But if by «capitalism» is meant a system in which freedom in the economic sector is not circumscribed within a strong juridical framework which places it at the service of freedom in its totality, and which sees it as a particular aspect of that freedom, the core of which is ethical and religious, then the reply is certainly negative.