Sentences with phrase «economic terms tend»

Those who think in economic terms tend to mean sustainability in this latter sense.

Not exact matches

This phenomenon means that, in nominal terms, wages tend not to adjust downward when economic conditions are poor.

Other factors, notably credit market conditions and the near - term economic outlook, tend to be more important.

Long - term interest rates tend to rise during periods of significant economic improvement (i.e., when things are going really well).

Long term, secular market advances tend to originate from conditions of excellent valuation and surmountable economic headwinds.

With or without a central bank, fractional reserve banking will tend to bring about a boom / bust cycle and thus reduce the long - term rate of economic progress.

Television, in particular, was found to have presented violence in simplistic terms — depicting «a visual three - way alignment of Negroes, white bystanders, and public officials or enforcement agents,» which tended to create the impression that the riots were predominantly racial confrontations between blacks and whites, while factors such as economic and political frustration were pushed into the background.

Seculars tend to vote Democratic at all levels, with 54 percent supporting Kennedy in 1960, but there have been exceptions to this pattern; in 1980, 68 percent voted for Ronald Reagan on the basis of short - term economic considerations.

What the book does is it helps the reader think of large, and sudden moves in the economy in terms of monetary and banking policy and helps correct for narratives of economic events that tend to overwhelmingly focus on questions of taxation, spending and labor regulation.

Long - term interest rates tend to rise during periods of significant economic improvement (i.e., when things are going really well).

This may not be the best course of action at certain times of the economic cycle when intermediate - term bonds and medium - risk investments tend to outperform.

Long - term the global securities markets tend to reflect the value of the global economic development and growth that underlies the markets.

We believe both short - and long - term bond yields could move up, and we plan to maintain an overweight position in corporate bonds compared to the Bloomberg Barclays Capital Intermediate U.S. Government / Credit Index, as they tend to outperform Treasuries during periods of economic expansion.

As I mentioned in the previous section, loss aversion is an economic term that describes how humans tend to lose more satisfaction from a losing trade (or investment) than they gain from a winning trade.

Consequently, their long - term earnings histories tend to be very cyclical because their underlying businesses are very sensitive to economic weakness.

Something to the effect that people tend to become squeamish or otherwise averse to the truly difficult task of challenging a culture's norms of behavior, especially norms that may currently benefit their particular tribe or socio - economic group, even if those norms can be shown to be potentially lethal to the individual or group in the long term.

Unfortunately for the rest of us, those people tend to be extremely wealthy, and have the means to fund PR campaigns, bribe legislators, etc., to ensure that their personal short - term economic interests aren't threatened.

(Conversely if net economic impact had a substantial first order term, change would tend not to be a problem in and of itself, one direction of change would be net bad and the other would be net good, and we'd be highly motivated to artificially drag the earth's temperature at least some amount in whatever the net good direction was.)