Sentences with phrase «financial power shifts»

Until and unless bitcoin attains and retains stability in both its technical and financial realms — i.e., reaches consensus regarding scaling and having its financial power shifted from speculators to consumers who actually use bitcoins for everyday transactions — bitcoin will remain nothing more than a speculative asset.

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They want to unbundle a financial system grown «too interconnected to fail,» and they prescribe solutions for the global good in a world where the G20 outstrips the G8 (including an IMF reorganization to reflect that shift in the balance of power).

It would be more accurate to view the Federal Reserve as shifting to Wall Street the financial power hitherto concentrated in the hands of the Treasury Secretary in Washington.

Updated, 8:51 p.m. The surprise departure of a top JPMorgan Chase executive for a giant private equity firm underscores how financial regulations are forcing a shift in the balance of power on Wall Street.

The shift from locating my identity in the message of the Gospel to locating my identity in my success as a messenger of the Gospel was slow and subtle... My confidence was severely misplaced: Confidence in status, reputation, power and position, the way I spoke, the praise I received, financial security and success.

A new chief financial officer, Gunther Burghardt, will also be based in the Napa Valley in California for Treasury, further cementing the power shift to the US among top executives.

Arsenal are nowhere near this level and it saddens me to think that this season and even last season was the perfect opportunity for us to capitalize on our newfound financial muscle and also the shift in power in the BPL (Man United, City, Chelsea all going through changes).

However, despite the popularity of this opinion, it is of considerable significance to state that, apart from the youths non-possession of the financial strength to execute the electoral projects as being speculated in some quarters, there are of cause other probable factors that may render the move fruitless irrespective of the demographic advantage enjoyed or the glamour that graced their much celebrated not - too - young - to run campaign recently embarked on to press for power shift.

The three institutions are part of a first - of - its - kind study to research and test the concept of «transaction - based» energy management, which combines financial signals and dynamic control technologies to shift the timing and quantity of energy usage in devices, buildings and campuses to increase efficiency and reduce costs, while also providing flexibility for the power grid.

Shifting Ontologies, Increased Acceptance & Entrenchment The decade of Western liberal hegemony following the end of the Cold War was a time when even historically antagonistic global powers such as Russia were at the mercy of international financial institutions and Western policy makers.

Poor countries say industrial powers, which have spent a century or more benefiting from fossil fuels while adding billions of tons of heat - trapping greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, owe them both financial assistance in dealing with rising seas or shifting rains and a stable climate, which they say can be achieved only if rich countries commit to deep prompt cuts in their emissions.

Finance will provide the needed power to turn the world toward a zero - carbon, climate - resilient future, and the purpose of the Agreement states that all financial flows — both public and private — need to be shifted from high to low emissions activities and risky to resilient investments.

«The scope of Walmart's coal consumption is staggering — as is its refusal to forego even a penny of short - term profits to invest in a meaningful shift to renewable power, and its financial backing of lawmakers who protect fossil fuel interests and block action on climate pollution.»

President Donald Trump's interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has shifted enforcement power away from the office that had pursued cases alleging interest rate discrimination.

The shift was in line with many major developments for the quarter, which saw bitcoin steadily grow its hashing power and user base while blockchain technology solutions for the financial industry stole a majority of the spotlight.

The balance of power will shift from financial institutions to mortgage - seeking Canadians.