Sentences with phrase «even economic well»

Like those cheap jars of dill and gherkin pickles your supermarket sells at a loss, are we undermining our health and even economic well - being by our insistence on «more, faster and cheaper?»

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And, these numbers do not even include the benefits to productivity and economic growth that would stem from innovation by better educated Americans.

Even better, steady customers help businesses weather lean economic times; businesses with 40 % repeat customers generated nearly 50 % more revenue than similar businesses with only a 10 % repeat customers.»

Even prior to the Trump win, a victory that signaled higher economic growth, rising interest rates, and likely less regulation, all good for financial services, Buffett had secured paper profits over 5 1/2 years of $ 6.9 billion on his preferred.

It pushed customers toward a $ 35 (including delivery) bouquet, only to discover that, even though customers latched onto it, the product did not perform well for the company from an economic standpoint.

LONDON — One of the Bank of England's most senior policymakers has acknowledged that the central bank is unlikely to predict the next financial crisis or even the next recession in the UK because economic models are simply not good enough.

According to a working paper by three Stanford University economists and an economist for eBay Research Labs, posted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, buyers just think auctions aren't worth the trouble — even if it means getting a better price.

That's still rapid growth — far better than any developed nation — but because it's such an integral part of the world's importing and exporting ecosystem, even the slightest economic pullback will have some eff ect on the rest of the world.

Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin may have declared earlier this year that the issue is «not even on [the White House's] radar screen,» but it could have a serious political as well as economic impact.

I thought our biggest problem was generating good economic models for sustainable organic farming... but I wasn't even close.

Dollar strength might seem like a reflection of U.S. economic power, and it may even be good news for the pockets of American consumers.

Even though Harper is pursuing an economic agenda to build trade and investment with the Chinese, he won't shy away from raising concerns about the rule of law, good governance and democracy, said the source, saying the prime minister would represent «values that define us as Canadians.»

Following the better - than - expected September jobs report, several economic analyses have pointed out the continuing lack of meaningful wage growth, even as tens of thousands of people head back to work.

Leading economic indicators suggest that 2018 may be even better for the industry, highlighted by improving corporate demand.

Leading economic indicators suggest that 2018 may be even better for the industry, led by improving corporate demand.

Longer term, emerging markets are the drivers of global economic growth and investors would do well to have some exposure, even if it comes with higher volatility.

That experience, together with influential research on monetary policy, convinced the economics profession that maintaining price stability is the best — or even the only — contribution monetary policy can make to promoting a country's economic and financial well - being.

It would have been even worse had the U.S. dollar weakened as well, but given some very poor economic news from overseas, the dollar held fairly steady.

One would like to hope that even these modest surpluses would be used to support good economic and social policies.

While it's possible that the resulting economic development would make up for those losses, even 50,000 well - paying jobs might not make up for billions in lost tax revenue.

Indeed, stock prices have soared and high - yield aka junk has been one of the best places to be in fixed income, even if comparable U.S. and global economic growth has been absent.

Despite the best efforts of central banks and finance ministries, even unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus aren't enough to keep the global economic recovery from stalling.

Over the last little while, some of my compadres here at Relentlessly Progressive Economics have intuited and sometimes even insisted that while Stà © phane Dion's socially liberal bona fides are not in question, his economic policy proposals place him well to the right of centre.

If things turn out better and it looks fairly certain that there could be a surplus in 2014 - 15, then he could announce it in the 2014 Economic and Fiscal Update, setting the stage for an early election budget and possibly even an early election.

The «bull» position is that China is in very good shape and is more or less doing everything right, even though (the remaining bulls have been adding lately) its economic growth must slow down a little.

So the sharp fall in oil prices has certainly been disruptive, but stabilization from distressed trough levels should be good for economic growth even if the price of oil doesn't rebound back to peak levels of above $ 100 a barrel in 2014.

«I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of my self - importance — to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes (each with his General Theory) or, even better, a scientist like Einstein» George Soros

Even better, Disney calculates ROIC in a fairly rigorous manner (better than most) that lines up well with economic reality.

One and perhaps even two more rounds of finalists are likely, said Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First, a Washington D.C. - based nonprofit that promotes economic accountability in development deals.

Even if market volatility picks up, this long but moderate economic expansion that began in June 2009 has fuel to go further, which is good news for investors.

As a consequence, knowledge of good economic theory is required to understand what's happening to money and why slower economic progress, or even a prolonged economic contraction, will be an inevitable result.

Instead, the government at that time decided to use the average of private sector economic forecasts rather than those produced by the Department of Finance even though E&Y had concluded that the Department's economic forecasts were consistently better than those in the private sector.

In one illustrative example from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), at best one - quarter of the cost of a broad - based cut in individual rates could be offset by economic growth over a decade, and even that assumes future tax increases will ultimately be enacted to stabilize the long - term fiscal picture.

While interest rates have been low for years, rising interest rates bode well for overall economic health — and may even hold good news for businesses.

Even during the best economic times there will always be an opinion citing concerns.

It's also unclear if or when economic growth could turn around, even in the best case scenario.

Reid says such workarounds are far more common today than even just a few years ago, during the Great Recession, because the economic pain is confined to a single region and bank balance sheets are generally in good shape.

But even going forward, he believes the businesses will reap «better - than - economic growth» thanks to a widespread shift to offshore services.

Although it may sound strange, developing entire fictional characters with distinct behavior patterns, values, pain points, budgets, and even skill levels can prove a significant help in segmenting your market and targeting the types of visitors, leads, and customers that will best increase your website's economic output.

Even if the economic benefits of a limited program would be muted, though, isn't something better than nothing?

In other words, even if we succeed in having good economic growth and sustaining it for a longer period than in earlier expansions, it will not solve all our unemployment problems.

This gets into philosophy - of - law issues, of course, but even some imaginable judicially restrained economic - autonomy - is - Locke's - teaching scholars (i.e., really none of the libertarian con - law scholars I know of) would be advocating a way of life, and a pattern of regular legislation, that centered one's practice of liberty upon, well, business - man, or to speak Republic book VIII, oligarchic - man, accomplishments.

Some think of it as no more than a libertarian system, concerned with economic liberty alone, exaggeratedly individualistic, indifferent or even antithetical to welfare programs for the poor, unconcerned with the public good, focused solely on markets and private profit.

Even if things get better for one, or two, or three years, a ration of six years of recession and economic uncertainty followed by a few years of something close to economic security should not be what anyone hopes for from our economy.

It is frustrating to see William Chip's well - documented argument of the economic and political evils of illegal immigration rebutted from Scaperlanda's supposedly moral standpoint, when in fact the victims in this scenario are the laborers working without regulations for workplace safety, without employment benefits, and even without police protection (since contact with law enforcement is associated with deportation).

The legitimacy and authority of all our institutions, political, economic, educational, even familial, as well as religious, has now never been shakier.

In comparison with the breadth and depth of the intellectual, economic, cultural, social changes of today and tomorrow in the secular sphere, however, which also contribute to determine the task of the Church, it must even be said that the Church in its aggiornamento proceeds very slowly and cautiously, so that there is more reason to ask whether it is reacting sufficiently quickly, courageously and confidently to the future which has already begun, than to fear that it is sacrificing too quickly and in too «modernistic» a way what is old and well - tried and has stood the test.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

A darker assessment of current child well - being would accord more consistently with what Mintz's entire history reveals: that economic and social trends afflicting adults» lives have an even more negative impact upon the lives of children.

Any student of the Græco - Roman world at the beginning of our era who tries to penetrate beneath the surface of the political, economic and military history of the period and discern what was going on in the minds of men, becomes aware of a widespread expectation of a turn for the better in human affairs, even the dawn of a golden age, after the violent convulsions which had disturbed society for a century or more.