Sentences with phrase «financial crisis make»

Will the financial crisis make corporations more responsible?

According to research by Pascual Restrepo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the 2007 - 08 financial crisis made things worse: between 2007 and 2015 job openings for unskilled routine work suffered a 55 % decline relative to other jobs.

There are risks to all this, of course, as the global financial crisis made clear; but when done judiciously, in a well - regulated financial system, we believe such market - based credit solutions can help encourage growth and stability.

This upbeat analysis of the financial crisis made matters slightly clearer to me — but only slightly.

Renault came close to reviving Alpine in 2008 before the global financial crisis made the project a non-starter.

The last financial crisis made many financial corporations cut their dividends, but Cincinnati Financial (CINF) managed to keep its dividend growth streak alive.

«Even after the 2009 financial crisis made it plain the U.S. economy had entered a period of stagnation, Canadians seemed more interested in the far - off and more uncertain prospects of China, India and Brazil — economies characterized by high growth and large populations but also formidable market access barriers,» wrote Laura Dawson, president of Dawson Strategic, in a recent report for the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat who led the progressive opposition to the bill, which she nicknamed the «Bank Lobbyist Act,» argued it will increase risk in the financial system and make another devastating economic crisis more likely.

Geithner, who served under President Barack Obama as secretary of the treasury as the U.S. struggled to rebound from the global financial crisis, said the current political climate could lead to a «diminished capacity to make sensible economic choices.»

They were made heroes by the financial crisis and the Great Recession, if only because they tried to make a difference while politicians bickered and corporate titans hoarded cash.

When we bought our first plane, air travel was considered very expensive, extremely frustrating and awfully dull; more recently, the banking sector has been held responsible for the financial crisis and global recession, so we used our reputation to instil some trust and, as Virgin Money's slogan says, «Make everyone better off.»

While some experts see this as an opportunity, skeptics says it's a new financial crisis in the making and that muni bonds should be avoided.

In the wake of the sovereign debt crisis, Europe began implementing measures to make its financial system stronger.

This makes sense given two factors: one is the hit household formation took during the financial crisis.

Secondly, he noted «the root causes of the global crisis have not been prop ¬ erly tackled» with the financial system remaining «the Achilles heel of the world economy» and thirdly, «little progress is being made in reducing working poverty and vulnerable forms of employment such as informal jobs and undeclared work.»

After making several appearances on network TV and authoring columns on the financial crisis for Slate, the disgraced politician was recently tapped by CNN as co-host of a nightly news and discussion program alongside journalist Kathleen Parker.

«Clearly, the C.F.T.C. has taken a strong stance against Wall Street after the financial crisis, but in a broader context we do worry that the revolving door can make enforcement officials more sympathetic to the companies they oversee,» said Michael Smallberg, an investigator at Project on Government Oversight, a nonprofit group.

That meant she was, in effect, sitting in a lifeguard tower when the financial - crisis tidal wave made landfall.

The Federal Reserve's ultra-low interest - rate policy since the financial crisis may have lent support to a listless economy and made the government's massive debt a lot easier to finance, but it's been more than hard on retirees and conservative savers.

That was John Paulson, who made a name for himself by betting against sub-prime mortgages ahead of the financial crisis.

GIC, one of the first sovereign funds to invest in Western banks during the global financial crisis, retains the other major investment made at the time, a stake in Citigroup which is profitable at current prices.

The Trump administration has made it clear that it wants to relax financial regulations — curbs that were put in place to protect the U.S. from another financial crisis.

But Trump's financial deregulation program would make a financial crisis far more likely again.

At the same time, Burry, who made a fortune in last decade's financial crisis by betting that the housing bubble would burst, is also gaining a following north of Hollywood, as a Silicon Valley tech investor.

Though the 2008 financial crisis buffeted Thiel's world, it also made people more receptive to his «tech slowdown thesis,» Thiel says.

Five years ago, she was poached from Goldman Sachs — where she made her name convincing a number of large pension funds to hedge in the run up to the financial crisis — by Bank of America to run a first of its kind on Wall Street cross-asset, cross-industry structured - strategies group («It's about solutions, not products,» she says).

But in 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis, we started noticing that young people were doing some awfully significant things, whether in the financial world (Meredith Whitney had just made her bold call against Citigroup), in the tech world (Facebook was beginning to crank into high gear), or in other industries (Kevin Plank's apparel upstart Under Armour was giving Nike a real run for its money).

Frenkel criticised the ineffectiveness of governments since the financial crisis of 2008 which forced central banks to take their place in the «front line» of policy making, he said at an event in London on Tuesday.

Contrary to expectations that Beijing would finally embrace painful restructuring and financial deleveraging to reduce the risks of a financial crisis and make growth sustainable, Li proclaimed that China would achieve GDP growth of between 6.5 % and 7 % for 2016, similar to the 6.9 % GDP growth the Chinese government reported in 2015.

Smoothing earnings eliminates spikes and valleys that can temporarily make PEs look artificially cheap (spikes or unsustainable runs) or too pricey (the financial crisis collapse).

That follows a slight drop in the second quarter, making it the first time since the financial crisis that we have had two down earnings quarters in a row.

However, Poloz hasn't appeared overly fearful of triggering a financial crisis, arguing that lower interest rates will help to avoid one by making it easier for homeowners to keep up with their mortgage payments.

Still, it's not hard to see why politicians have latched on to entrepreneurship: It's sexy and founders make much more palatable economic heroes than the corporate titans who triggered the financial crisis.

The housing bubble in the United States, which triggered the financial crisis in 2008, had highlighted the danger of using the financial system to make up for the failures in social policies.

«There's no hall pass for any business models on mistakes made during the financial crisis.»

Although the financial crisis in the fall of 2008 nearly sank Morgan Stanley, it also made possible its metamorphosis into a wealth - management powerhouse.

The central bank, based in Frankfurt, used typically understated and technical language to describe its actions, but it appears to have done what its leadership said throughout 2011 that it would not do: namely, flood the financial markets with euros in a Hail Mary attempt to make sure that the region's sovereign debt crisis does not lead to a major financial shock.

Brokers and dealers made millions — worth decades of real work by real people — en route to the current financial crisis.

You can see evidence of these scars in many clients» allocation of their financial assets; before we even begin to discuss asset allocation from an investment standpoint, we focus on making sure clients have sufficient liquidity to make it through another crisis.

Some of the Bank of Canada's financial system activities are also designed, in part, to make the system less prone to crisis.

Most investors, including myself, buy physical gold not to make a profit, but to hedge against inflation, stock market crashes, currency devaluation, and all other sorts of financial crises.

Empirical research shows that a buildup of household debt in the economy makes a financial crisis more probable, so we wanted to understand the costs and benefits of leaning against financial imbalances through tighter monetary policy.

The bureau's rules have made it less attractive — though not illegal — for mortgage lenders to make some types of risky loans that went bad and sparked last decade's financial crisis.

If the U.S. does not make significant structural changes including entitlement reform, budgetary reform and a simpler tax system, he foresees another financial crisis of possibly greater magnitude in the years ahead.

The idea that pipelines to ship out solid bitumen (with diluent to make a solid flow) was essential did not emerge until after the 2008 financial crisis.

Last year the company had $ 1.39 billion in investment and derivative gains related mostly to deals made during the financial crisis, making for a difficult comparison this year.

«Puerto Rico survived the Hurricanes, now a financial crisis looms largely of their own making.»

With today's crisis in retirement preparedness, delaying savings and retirement decisions does not move the ball forward for Americans; nor does it «empower Americans to make their own financial decisions,» a goal highlighted by the President.

Things look equally bleak based on metrics typically used by investors to evaluate a borrower's ability to make payments: In Asia and Latin America, companies» debt now represents roughly four years of operating profits, up from fewer than two years prior to the financial crisis of 2008.

The decision means a previously obscure grouping of senior officials - the Financial Institutions Supervisory Committee - will be thrust into the spotlight as Canada's answer to the pledge the federal government and its allies in the Group of 20 made to correct regulatory failings that contributed to the financiaFinancial Institutions Supervisory Committee - will be thrust into the spotlight as Canada's answer to the pledge the federal government and its allies in the Group of 20 made to correct regulatory failings that contributed to the financialfinancial crisis.