Sentences with phrase «financial crisis pointing»

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At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

And at some point in late 2008, after the financial crisis had hit, one investor told us, «Listen, the stock market is cratering.

The financial crisis revealed the fallacy of the single - point objective function of traditional business education.

Now it's inching back up, and it's tempting to regard the financial crisis as a turning point.

That would be the biggest one - day slump in stock market history, by more than double, besting the 777 point plunge that happened on October 29, 2008, at the high of the panic surrounding the financial crisis.

Other pain points included drug pricing and how approving more generics may affect costs (Gottlieb parried that question by noting the FDA doesn't have the authority to negotiate prices or consider pricing when approving a drug) and his alleged softness on opioid drug makers due the aforementioned financial ties and pro-industry ideology (the nominee noted that he considers opioid addiction and overdoses a public health crisis «on the order of Ebola and Zika»).

In the years ahead of the financial crisis, Alan Greenspan, the former Fed chairman, systematically raised the benchmark rate a quarter point every time he gathered the Federal Open Market Committee.

At this point, it's not likely a question of «if», or even «when», the next financial crisis will hit.

As the chart below shows, and as Yellen pointed out, while layoffs and discharges returned to their historic levels rather quickly after the financial crisis, hires are still far below pre-recession levels.

Industrial morale increased to 111 points - the highest figure seen since before the financial crisis.

We could try pointing to the 2008 financial crisis for an explanation, but that affected everyone.

Our findings have important implications for how policymakers should respond to the next financial crisis, which will inevitably occur at some point because crises are an inherent part of our financial system.

So let me just point out that the growth of the population of companies slowed dramatically in a number of countries in the wake of the global financial crisis.

He pointed out that the failure of two or three such institutions would put us in «Lehman Brothers territory,» referring to the investment bank that filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, precipitating the financial crisis.

But any responsible economist has to recognise that, past a point, it can lead to some combination of excessive foreign borrowing, inflation and even financial crisis.

For many large shareholders, the 2008 financial crisis was the turning point that led to greater collaboration with activists.

Since the financial crisis, EU countries» economies have recovered to the point that they are exiting their adjustment programmes.

As Paul Krugman points out Reifschneider, working with John Williams and using the same FRBUS model, concluded that the ZLB was only a very small issue less than a decade before the financial crisis led to an 8 year stretch of zero rates.

You can see at the moment we're sitting at around $ 2 billion but at one point in time we were up at over $ 16 billion and that was in the middle of the financial crisis.

Speaking by phone from Montreal on Wednesday, economist Paul - Andre Pinsonnault predicted Governor Stephen Poloz will cut the policy rate by a quarter point to 0.25 percent next month, matching a record low set in 2009 during the global financial crisis.

The second and third point is irrelevant because it only addressed current debt relative to financial crisis in the immediate future.

He also used the 2008 financial crisis and the idea of black swan events to point out that if a broken system is allowed to fail, it actually strengthens it against the catastrophe of future black swan events.

The Baring Crisis of 1890 is pointed out as the first modern international emerging financial crisis.

Michael Hewson, Senior Market Analyst at CMC Markets in London, says Carney has gained a lot of «brownie points» for his handling of the financial crisis, given that Canada was the only G7 country that did not have to receive a banking bailout during the financial crisis that started in 2008.

«If the financial crisis taught nothing else, it showed how elegant financial models that calculate risk to decimal point precision act like a sedative towards critical thinking and even common sense» Allan Mecham

But Taleb pointed us to the years of easy monetary policy brought on by central banks since the financial crisis.

In recent months, the yield on US corporate bonds, especially investment - grade securities, is a little more than 100 basis points compared to the yield on government debt, dropping within striking distance of the lows seen post the 2008 financial crisis.

A couple of weeks ago I posted some information about the «Great Depression of 1873 - 1896 ″ to make the point that there was no depression, great or otherwise, during this period, but that the period did contain some financial crises / panics.

Finally, I feel it would be irresponsible for me not to point out that there are schools of thought (ones that are becoming somewhat more prominent in light of the financial crisis) that do not accept a lot of the limits and boundaries of neoclassical economics.

Eight years after the global financial crisis, four factors that hampered growth are reaching inflection points.

The trade upheaval threatens to undermine an American economy that is at its strongest point since the financial crisis struck a decade ago.

Yet when the markets have not performed as well — such as during the 2000 - 2002 tech - market bust and the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis — our research shows that US large - cap active managers outperformed their passive peers by 471 basis points and 100 basis points, respectively.

The study shows a steady decline since 1997 when it was at 13 percent and, predictably, it dropped to its lowest point of 6 percent in 2008 at the beginning of the financial crisis.

Individual investors are relatively less skillful during and since the financial crisis than before (break point at end of 2007).

For point of reference, the VIX hit around 60 during the 2008 financial crisis.

Determining a particular inflection point for inflation remains problematic, given the persistent structural forces that have suppressed prices since the global financial crisis.

Morgan Stanley recently calculated that expectations for stock returns are at their lowest point since before the financial crisis.

Our departure point is the structural, economic and financial crisis, with all the practical and ideological consequences which we can draw from it for our action programme.

Those who are doubtful point to the deepening misery of the poor, the loss of traditional values and community relationships, the looming ecological crises, and the structural dependence of prosperity on decisions made in financial centers in other parts of the world.

Deluded manager plus greedy board has created a crisis at arsenal with third rate players being paid first rate wages to keep them loyal and drugged up fans like yourself overdosing on 4th place high... True fans want change when they see the club going in wrong direction not a string of drug crazed platitudes from tribal loyalists who are so deluded themselves that they actually believe the blame for the crisis lies with the people who have been pointing to its causes... Do you think financial crises only happen because people start warning about overlevaraged banks, the speculative and fraudulent behaviour of their overpaid employees and the indulgence of their massively overpaid senior management... Pathetic comment

Just two league wins all season and with safety now four - points out of reach following their ninth defeat of the campaign, the last thing disgruntled Blackburn fans wanted to see were reports of a financial crisis at the club in the national newspapers.

Because Labour happened to be in government when the financial crash hit, the Tories were able to effectively blame the crisis on the main point of difference between the parties: Labour's higher spending on the welfare state.

Mr. Cohn - Bendit began the debate by characterizing the current climate as «a turning point in European history, because the European Union is confronted with one of its most serious crises, caused by the financial crisis».

You are right to point to our significant financial contribution of # 900 million to help the governments of Syria, Lebanon and Turkey cope with the regional refugee crisis, a contribution you have recently increased by a further # 100 million.

Perhaps, if a decade after the start of the financial crisis avowed free marketeers still have no convincing rebuttal to these arguments, it's because the left has some solid points.

In remarks clearly aimed at the National Front at home but also pointing to the wider problem in Europe after four years of financial crisis, Hollande warned of the twin threat to Europe from the forces of «nationalism and populism».

«The health service will face a financial crisis within a matter of years that will threaten the very values we hold so dear - of a comprehensive health service, available to all, free at the point of use and based on need and not the ability to pay,» he concluded.

The deficit poses an «existential threat» to the UK economy, he said, pointing to the financial crisis affecting some heavily indebted European economies.

He writes: «Our starting point must be the acceptance of this uncomfortable political reality that the public has accepted the [coalition] government's explanation of the financial crisis.»

The global financial crisis of 2008 would be seen as a turning point on par with the winter of discontent of 1978 (after which Margaret Thatcher persuaded Britain that «the state and the trade unions had grown too powerful and that markets needed to be given free reign») and on a par with the establishment of the welfare state in 1948.