Sentences with phrase «economic tensions of»

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Further escalation of trade tensions could raise worries about the global economic recovery, a top Federal Reserve official said Friday.

As economic tensions between Silicon Valley elites and the rest of society increase — affordable housing in California among the flash points — the approach to contract workers may need to change.

In October, Hammond was forced to deny that he would resign as chancellor, after tensions within the cabinet arose from his repeated warnings about the «economic realities» of Brexit, which many pro-Leave ministers saw as overly pessimistic.

China in particular has been seeking to reduce tensions, not escalate them - not least for its own commercial reasons, which include the economic colonisation of North Korea's north - eastern ports and other parts of its industrial economy.

Asian stocks closed higher on the last trading day of the month, as investors focused on a mix of ebbing geopolitical tensions, robust earnings and economic data.

The studies warn, «High inequality can diminish economic growth if it means that the country is not fully using the skills and capabilities of all its citizens or if it undermines social cohesion, leading to increased social tensions.

Polman foresaw a litany of other problems ahead, he told investors, listing these: «subdued economic growth, geopolitical tension, the resultant backlash against globalization and technology, a planet under increasing environmental stress, and the fragmentation of consumer trends, shopping channels, and media.»

Every major sell - off in history has been accompanied by a mix of economic concerns, monetary policy shifts, geopolitical tensions, or some other source of consternation that might make a rational person demand a higher premium for putting their capital at risk.

Playing into the tension between (growing) state capitalism and (historically dominant) free market is China's ongoing development of its own version of the Marshall Plan — displaying the world's only global economic strategy driven by a trillion - plus dollars of investment into international infrastructure.

«If our outlooks in November 2016 and June 2017 were something of a «group hug,» with a view that growth and asset prices would move higher together, this round contained more tension and skepticism of the market's reaction,» adds Sheets, whose team recently published its «2018 Global Strategy Outlook» in conjunction with the Global Economic team's «2018 Global Macro Outlook.»

Liz Claman, host of Fox Business News, welcomes Frank Holmes to the program, along with Jonathan Corpina of Meridian Equity Partners, to discuss how well the markets are doing despite geopolitical tensions and weaker economic data.

There, it is true that the arbitrage gains arising from free trade between economic zones of vastly different living standards without trade balance equilibrium and being captured by a small minority are correctly viewed as un-earned gains and giving rise to social tensions which could easily degenerate into political tensions.

The economic benefits of oil sands development, while considerable, are unevenly distributed across the country, making interprovincial tensions understandable.

The recent bout of volatility in financial markets occurred in an environment of growing uncertainty about the global economic outlook and increasing geopolitical tensions.

We expect the direct economic impact of current trade actions to be relatively minor (and dwarfed by the pro-growth measures passed to date), but further escalation of trade tensions could strengthen the economic headwinds.

The economic tension «will probably dampen productivity growth in the coming decades; it will dampen it in China and it will probably dampen productivity growth globally,» said Louis Kuijs, head of Asia economics at Oxford Economics.

Oil prices and the US Yields to dictate the pace this week While geopolitical tensions remain bubbling under the surface, rising oil prices and higher US yields suggest investors are likely to deal with increased volatility as a broad range of political, economic and financial events unfolds US Core PCE, GDP price index, personal consumption data are...

But in the midst of political tension, experts say the regime is moving forward on economic policies that increasingly are tied to neighboring China.

«Unfortunately, when there are trade tensions or any type of economic competition between countries, and this isn't specific to Asia or China, but generally — that causes similar tensions with respect to race and ethnicity,» John Yang, of Asian Americans Advancing Justice said.

As CMI goes to press, a high - level delegation of US officials is in Beijing for initial talks to address economic and trade tensions.

«Nowadays, people find themselves living in very turbulent times, with political and economic instability all over the world, ranging from the impending Brexit to the escalation of trade tensions.

Investment for return (as Rodney Stark relates in The Victory of Reason) largely occurred against the grain of Church teaching, the Spanish Scholastics being largely ignored, and it was Calvin's application of biblical law to trade and commerce that created the competitive tension under which a millennium of misapplication and resultant economic suppression could begin to be corrected.

By financing desalination plants, the U.S. could also greatly decrease the tensions in the area, turn barren land into rich farmland, some of which could be used for resettling those in refugee camps, and encourage economic cooperation between Israel and Palestine that would provide a powerful incentive for peace.

And to do this let us begin by climbing up till we tower over the trees which now hide the forest from us; in other words let us forget for a moment the details of the economic crises, the political tensions, the class - struggles which block out our horizon, and let us climb high enough to gain an inclusive and impartial view of the whole process of hominization11 as it has advanced during the last fifty or sixty years.

A new order of peace and justice, abatement of economic and racial tension, the banishment of ignorance, poverty, and disease will not come about solely through prayer.

We often wish we could find a verse that would settle all the complex issues of family life, economic competition and tension, international order, and war.

The conflicts are many and varied but there is a contemporary ring to them: irrational prejudices, ethnic tension, cultural crisis, social discrimination and economic domination were all present in all the conflicts of the time.

Sometimes these are reminiscent of the tensions to be found in the relations of states and provinces to nation as a whole, sometimes to the more acerbic dissensions among the branches of the armed forces, all equally pledged to the defense of the country; sometimes they seem very similar to the tensions found among Roman Catholic religious orders; sometimes they seem like economic competition.

Indeed, with China experiencing ever greater internal cultural and economic tensions, China maybe exploring the benefits of a more theocratic model.

There are marked tensions between the basic ideas of this traditional thought and those that control modern economic thinking.

The unity present in this diversity is like the unity in the diversity, rivalry and tension of democratic political and economic life.

but to provide all men with basic economic security would provide one way of easing the tensions that lead to war.

We see the roots of wrong (Genesis 3:16 - 19) replay on the news each day — tensions between men and women; parents and children; brother and brother; differing religious, racial, ethnic and socio - economic groups.

Much of it draws on the tradition of writers such as Max Weber, which underlines the ways in which Christianity has overcome the apparent tensions between religion and economic action in order to sustain the capitalist economic system.

In the world scene, questions of race and color mingle with those of national status and of economic abundance and poverty to create great restlessness and tension.

It paid scant attention to the economic tensions which slowly developed between England and the colonies and reached their peak after the conclusion of the French and Indian War.

«The withheld milk payment is likely to create tension with farmers although their 94 per cent ownership of economic interests [units] should ease this tension and farmers benefits from Fonterra's decision in supporting the balance sheet,» Mr Dekker said in a research note.

Look closely, and this scene tells you a lot about what Italy is today: an MC Escher - like tangle of governmental bureaucracy; social tension exacerbated by a relatively recent influx of immigrants; passive resignation to years of high unemployment, virtually no economic growth, and government debt that is now nearly 140 percent of the gross domestic product.

Yet most failed on both counts because the combination of divide - and - rule politics and high levels of corruption led to economic stagnation and mounting social tensions.

The lack of a supervising agent, coupled with the inability to fulfil necessary preconditions regarding successful regional cooperation: whether these being Khosla's (2007)(a rejection of war, a mutual dispute system, a shared culture and common threats) Ayoob's (1985)(ideological and political affinity) and Bandara and Yu's (2003)(geographical advantages, trade complementarity, lack of political tension, and differentiated economic structures) means that member states are acclimatized to defect, making the regional entity captive to on - going disputes.

Or can there be a realpolitik of economic cooperation in spite of these newly emerging tensions?

On the left the tension between economic inequality and political equality is of course a major theme in Marxist and post-Marxist work.

As Jessica Kimpell has charted in her earlier article in this debate, this was the period of tension between virtue and commerce, between republican language and political economic language [3].

No real development or genuine economic activity can take place in the midst of crisis or tension.

In light of the considerable uncertainty around the economic and fiscal outlook, including the risks posed to economic recovery by ongoing financial tensions in the eurozone and against the backdrop of a still large structural budget deficit and high and rising government debt, the Negative Outlook indicates a slightly greater than 50 % chance of a downgrade over a two - year horizon.»

But it's the decisions taken in a few months» time, in the summer, which will hugely impact the political and economic outlook of spring 2015, and could cause some of the biggest tensions we've seen in the coalition so far.

It said that the NDC «will continue to enjoy strong support in the east and north of the country, owing to historical and tribal allegiances,» and predicted that «Greater Accra, historically a swing state, will be a key battleground, and so tensions in this economic hub could disrupt business operations.»

Tension between the Labour leader and the man he's put in charge of his party's economic policy?

The tension at the heart of Labour's electoral strategy is between radicalism and reassurance; between offering the electorate substantial economic change to transform their living standards, and reassuring them that it will manage the economy competently so as not to threaten their family fortunes.

The possibilities here, it seems, vastly outweigh the good, with the worst case probably involving the displacement of several billion people from the poorest coastal regions of the world, with concomitant social, economic and political upheaval, possible starvation from regional losses in agriculture, and rises in international tensions, terrorism and political instability.