Sentences with phrase «even as the recession»

And even as the recession has tightened consumers» budgets, Mackey has led the company to steady revenue growth while avoiding layoffs.

Even as the recession ravaged the industry, Stronach became convinced that demand for BEVs and hybrids would grow rapidly.

Even as the recession eases, corporate clients continue to pressure their law firms to cut costs, increase efficiency, and move to fixed fees and alternative fee arrangements (AFAs).

Not exact matches

The 47 hour figure has remained largely consistent over the past 14 years, Gallup reports, even as the number of jobs began to plummet on the heels of the recession in 2007.

Even as the auto industry has roared back to life since the Great Recession, the economic recovery has left the Motor City in its rear - view mirror.

Even the financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession registered as little more than a blip.

The conventional wisdom in the economics community is that the labor force participation rate would have continued to decline even if the great recession never occurred, because as the nation ages the share of retired workers would grow.

These forces helped Canada weather the recession of 2008 - 2009 reasonably well, even as other countries such as Britain and the U.S. plunged into turmoil from which they've yet to emerge.

The head of the World Trade Organization warned of a real risk of triggering an escalation of global trade barriers and a deep recession, even as financial markets and many economists started to discount the risk of a global crisis.

Even as the Great Recession slowly recedes, STEM workers at every stage of the career pipeline, from freshly minted grads to mid - and late - career Ph.D. s, still struggle to find employment as many companies, including Boeing, IBM, and Symantec, continue to lay off thousands of STEM workers.

Stocks reacted to recession fears during last week's sell - off but were much calmer on Wednesday, even as analysts say they expect more selling.

Stimulus spending ensured that the downturn wasnâ $ ™ t as severe as it could have been and growth was stronger coming right out of the recession, but since then government austerity has slowed economic growth, putting us behind the even the 1990s recovery (see chart below).

I'd like to eliminate FICA taxes in the next recession as a stimulus, but I doubt that happens cuz Dems will come in and say «morally wrong» cuz «equality» even though FICA hits the middle class the hardest, but okay.

In evaluating the opinions that you hear to the contrary, keep in mind that the consensus of economists, as measured by the Blue Chip Economic Survey and others, has never forecast an oncoming recession, and usually remained rosy even several months after the actual recession was eventually determined to have started.

Even as private employers have rebounded from the recession, the public sector's ranks have withered, and pay and benefits have lagged.

My impression is that stocks will not see a durable intermediate - term low until the point where a recession in progress is taken as common knowledge, without the debate that persists even now.

As for individual stocks (at least the stable, quality businesses), you don't liquidate just because a recession may depress earnings next quarter, or even for a few years.

Sellers at these levels may find themselves scrambling to repurchase stock as that occurs, particularly in view of current valuations (even adjusted for the impact of an ongoing recession).

Per above, the economy continues to improve, even if slowly, as unemployment continues falling and consumer confidence remains near pre recession highs.

As I sat with a few people and «war - gamed» what the next recession will look like, a general agreement emerged that the credit markets will be far more volatile than they were last time, even though banks are better capitalized today than they were 10 years ago.

We won't pound the tables about imminent recession until we observe fresh weakness in the equity market (even a 7 - 8 % market loss would sharply raise our probability estimates), but it's important to recognize that financial risks are already fully developed, and as in other bubbles, one usually finds «catalysts» to blame for a collapse only well after the downturn is in full - swing.

Even allowing, as many authorities do, that the Great Recession was a national crisis warranting a similar expansion of the Fed's role, that fact alone can hardly continue to justify the Fed's vast expansion now that the recovery is well - nigh complete.

The share of Americans in collections has remained relatively constant, even as the country as a whole has whittled down the size of its credit card debt since the official end of the Great Recession in the middle of 2009.

The chart shows three important facts: (1) a bigger rise in food stamp usage in hard - hit housing states as early as 2007 and 2008, (2) the rise in food stamp usage increased by substantially more in these states during the heart of the Great Recession in 2009, and (3) even in 2013, food stamp usage is growing more in hard - hit housing states.

While buybacks and dividends - as - a-percent of sales more than doubled from a post - recession low of 3.5 % to a high last year of more than 8 %, capex - as - a-percent of sales has largely stayed within a narrow range between 4 % and 5 %, and has not even recovered to its pre-GFC high.

As surprising as the recent financial crisis [1] and recession were, the behavior of the world's industrialized economies and financial markets during the recovery [2] has been even more sAs surprising as the recent financial crisis [1] and recession were, the behavior of the world's industrialized economies and financial markets during the recovery [2] has been even more sas the recent financial crisis [1] and recession were, the behavior of the world's industrialized economies and financial markets during the recovery [2] has been even more so.

Again, I don't believe we are likely to observe major declines in consumption, or capital spending such as information technology - even assuming the U.S. has entered a recession.

As I argued when the second quarter GDP numbers confirmed the recession, the big issue is not whether GDP growth is slightly positive or slightly negative. The big issue is why it has been so close to zero in the first place. The July GDP numbers do not change that analysis. And they do not change the empirical fact that the Harper government's overall economic record — even before this year's downturn — is uniquely weak, on both historical and international criteria.

Even if China's debt and real estate bubbles don't pop, resulting in a global recession, slowing economic growth from China could have a detrimental effect on long - term energy prices and result in prolonged weakness in the entire energy sector, including oil services suppliers such as U.S. Silica.

It is true that our economic growth rates following the 2007 - 2009 recession have not approached the levels seen coming out of previous recessions, and as we shift from highly accommodative monetary policy, even Fed officials have called for additional fiscal - policy support.

The rout that erased $ 2.9 trillion from U.S. equities has pushed valuations in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index 25 percent below the average level from the last nine recessions, even as profit estimates fall.

The most obvious center of accession is tropical Africa, which even a century ago was statistically marginal to Christianity; the most obvious center of recession is Western Europe, which a century and a half ago would certainly have been identified as the most dynamic and significant Christian center.

To me, the greatest scandal of all is the bland indifference to this fact on the part of those who have the most power in our country: in many cities, 40 per cent of the young people are without work and may well belong permanently to a subculture of unemployment even after the economy as a whole recovers from recession.

Texas A&M researchers used the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from the University of Michigan to find that while charitable giving in America understandably fell during the Great Recession, it has actually continued to decline, even as the economy has stabilized.

Puerto Rico has experienced a dynamic demographic shift over the past decade even as importers and distributors such as TraFon Group feel the pressure to maintain competitive pricing while the island remains in a recession.

And this even as the eurozone is said to be heading straight into a double - dip recession.

Even the figures quoted by the President as the growth rate for 2016, is higher than the West African average especially when note is taken of recessions in the Nigerian and other economies.

They might not even have grasped its significance, as the first reference (there were three) was about the recession faced by «much of Europe» rather than Britain by itself.

Well, it looks as though the recession has hit even the D.C. area, which is usually immunized somewhat against bad economic times by the presence of the federal government and all who feed on it.

«Even if there was a signature of mine on it, if there are intervening events that are outside the contemplation of the parties, such as this recession, that could theoretically be a way to lay people off,» Paterson said.

Liu pointed to the European debt crisis as «the single most significant risk to the city's economy this year,» and said that even a mild European recession would be bruising, since European banks have more than a trillion in assets in New York City offices and employ approximately 45,000 people here.

Politicians from all parties still squabble and shout at each other across the floor in the House of Commons, they still publicly bash each other's ideas without putting forward real alternatives and, even as we slide into the double dip of recession, the parties can't stop themselves from hurling scripted insults and blaming current problems on past policies.

The problem is that, as a traditional driver of voting intention, constitutional reform ranks behind just about every other measure you can think of - even more so in a recession.

«Given the UK's ability to grind to a halt with even a flake, the snow has come at a very brittle time for the UK economy, adding to the headwinds that it is already battling against as it tries to avoid a triple - dip recession,» HIS Global Insight's chief UK and European economist Howard Archer said.

The planned low tax hikes contrast with the current school year's average 3.27 percent increase, as well as jumps of 7, 8 or even 9 percent recorded during the economic boom years preceding the Great Recession.

The ex-governor gave this advice in an interview with Daily Post, he charged that President should seek to co-opt members of other political parties who have economic knowledge to contribute their quota towards economic transformation, even as he (Buhari) searches for solution out of the present economic recession rocking the nation.

In fact, as Steve Malanga of the Manhattan Institute think tank points out, there was already a nationwide glut of convention - center capacity even before the recession put a big dampener on the entire sector.

As it is, the recession can be pinned neatly on either Gordon Brown as chancellor or even the previous mayor's gung - ho policieAs it is, the recession can be pinned neatly on either Gordon Brown as chancellor or even the previous mayor's gung - ho policieas chancellor or even the previous mayor's gung - ho policies.

The downside is that it leaves the Tories even more out of step with the rest of the world, as even a reluctant Germany plans a second fiscal stimulus and Barack Obama proposes a massive blitz to spend America out of recession.

Even before the recession Labour had allowed public sector pay to catch up with private sector pay but had not forced public sector workers to sacrifice some of the securities they received as a traditional substitute for less remuneration.