Sentences with phrase «for most economists»

For most economists, then, earned income tax credits are preferable to direct income assistance in helping those who are able to work.

For most economists, on the other hand, the current situation is unexpected and appears anomolous.

For most economists, history is usually little more than a data sequence whose values are plugged into mathematical models — whose implicit assumptions too often these same economists fail to understand.

For most economists from the official, financial or even academic sectors, career risk is simply too great.

While a recession isn't the base - case scenario for most economists right now, concerns of a recession happening soon are high.

A master's degree or Ph.D. is required for most economist jobs.

Not exact matches

The fact is, most economists agree that trade deficits are not necessarily bad for the U.S. economy nor do they reflect some camouflaged version of a trade war, as Ross asserts.

The economists who did the research for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York concluded that average workers see most of their earnings grow during the first 10 years of their career and begin to stagnate after age 35.

«The percentage of owners citing the difficulty of finding qualified workers as their most important business problem increased and is now third on the list, behind taxes and regulations,» Bill Dunkelberg, the chief economist for NFIB said in a press release.

«Buyer interest stayed elevated in most areas thanks to mortgage rates under 4 % for most of the year and the creation of 1.7 million new jobs edging the job market closer to full employment,» said Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist.

«Because capital has been so hard to raise over the last four years, the simplest and most straightforward way has been to shrink assets, which means loans,» says James Chessen, chief economist for the American Bankers Association.

For this reason, most economists advocate that spending by local residents be excluded from any economic impact estimates.»

While Bitcoin is often criticized because it's not backed by a physical commodity, that's not an issue for Michael Lee, an economist in the New York Fed's Research and Statistics Group, who says that neither is the dollar and most modern currencies.

Even though orders for durable goods dropped in December, most economists see rising confidence as a sign that consumers have more disposable income and are ready to increase spending in 2015.

No Canadian economist will agree with Mintz — most say that it could take years for the S&P / TSX composite index, now sitting at under 12,000, to hit 15,000 points again — but they are generally optimistic that the market upswing will continue.

«For the economy as a whole, I don't feel it's our most pressing problem,» says BMO chief economist Doug Porter.

Exports from Canada to the U.S. could be subjected to a maximum tariff of 3.5 per cent under the World Trade Organization's «most favoured nation» provision, to which Canada would almost certainly respond with its own tariffs on imports from the U.S. «For Canada, under WTO rules, we'd have to put up barriers with the U.S., and the retaliation would be one of the biggest sources of negative impact for us,» says Dan Ciuriak, a former deputy chief economist with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International TraFor Canada, under WTO rules, we'd have to put up barriers with the U.S., and the retaliation would be one of the biggest sources of negative impact for us,» says Dan Ciuriak, a former deputy chief economist with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trafor us,» says Dan Ciuriak, a former deputy chief economist with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

Which is why Maclean's once again asked dozens of economists, analysts, investors and financial writers to each share their pick for the most important chart for Canada in the year ahead.

«Small business owners are a little unnerved that the small business issues that matter the most to them have not come up,» says Mark Vitner, a senior economist for Wells Fargo.

Ted Mallett, VP and chief economist at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, says the difference for common household goods like detergent and diapers is largely due to the fact that retailers need higher margins in the smaller Canadian market; there are no tariffs on most items like these.

«If you think of the government as a business, I think they have to manage their funds prudently to get the most bang for their buck,» said ANZ economist Weiwen Ng.

Meanwhile, most economists take the current trends as indicative of a «soft landing» for the sector, with just a slight moderation in prices afoot.

Most state agencies are grappling with spending cuts of 5.5 %, and they're bracing for more belt tightening as state economists prepare to release reduced revenue estimates for the current and coming fiscal year.

«There is extensive academic literature suggesting that populism is bad for economic growth and prosperity but also for most investment classes,» economists at Macquarie wrote last week.

Even most bank economists believe Canadian housing is overpriced somewhere in the range of 10 % to 20 %, perhaps more so for the hottest condo markets.

«Most Americans will pay about the same as last year at the grocery store for a turkey and all the trimmings,» said John Anderson, the deputy chief economist at the AFBF.

At the same time, most economists don't think the pace of job growth is enough to cause the Federal Reserve to speed up its timetable for raising interest rates.

For one, homes in most of the U.S. «are still the deal of the decade,» says TD economist Beata Caranci.

We asked our favorite portfolio managers, strategists, analysts, and economists across the Street for the charts that they deem the most important right now, and this is what they sent us.

So I called the Nobel Prize — winning economist, the most celebrated monetarist of the 20th century, to get his take on whether the bull case for long - term profit growth was reasonable — or mostly bull.

And it's simply this: For instance, if you look back 50 or 80 years ago, you could say that economists, academic economists, Nobel Prize winning level economists, were among the most brilliant people we had in this country.

Most economists agree that with legalization, we can expect demand to increase in the short - term, as the penalties for being caught with marijuana go down (to zero) and marijuana should be easier to attain.

And yet most economists would agree instead with the doctrine of trade deficits and its benefits for consumers.

The most recent addition to the dynamic is a wave of press releases from bank economists calling for immediate fiscal stimulus to address the «crisis.»

While there may be some truth to this, there is widespread agreement among most economists (with Peter Navarro perhaps being an exception) that unrestricted trade is beneficial and protectionism is bad for any country.

One of the few issues on which most economists agree is the need for public policy to protect the environment.

It is therefore no shock that economists and business academics are subverting the social movement to demand corporate accountability by dismantling some of their legal advantage — most notably, personhood rights for corporations.

That issue is crucial for Professor Gordon of Northwestern, arguably the most influential pessimist among academic economists today.

But few trade economists would say that a trade war is good or that it should be sought out; most think of trade wars as something to be avoided — or, at most, endured for the sake of protecting an industry that needs a helping hand from the government.

Democratic lawmakers and top economists are mystified that he's being eyed for Federal Reserve chairman, the most powerful economic post in the world.

I will argue that most economists have an incoherent understanding of China's rebalancing needs, and for this reason many if not most of the reform proposals of the past few years, about which economists widely agree and even celebrate, are in many if not most cases largely irrelevant.

Except for a period in the early 1960s, when Robert Triffin explored what became known as the Triffin Dilemma, in which foreign hoarding of U.S. dollars was linked to persistent U.S. trade deficits, the relationship between the capital and current accounts seems since then to have mystified most economists, including those specializing in trade, even as U.S. trade deficits and foreign capital inflows soared, and as the growth in international capital flows, once consisting largely of trade finance, exploded relative to trade flows and relegated trade finance to minor importance.

Unfortunately, Mr. Krugman's failure to see today's economic problem as one of debt deflation reflects his failure (suffered by most economists, to be sure) to recognize the need for debt writedowns, for restructuring the banking and financial system, and for shifting taxes off labor back onto property, economic rent and asset - price («capital») gains.

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His other professional acknowledgments include: Institute for Management Studies — Lifetime Achievement Award (one of only two ever awarded), American Management Association - 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek — 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal — top ten executive educators, Forbes — five most - respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence — top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India)-- top CEO coaches of America, Economist (UK)-- most credible executive advisors in the new era of business, National Academy of Human Resources — Fellow of the Academy (America's top HR award), World HRD Congress — 2011 global leader in HR thinking, Fast Company — America's preeminent executive coach, and Leader to Leader Institute — 2010 Leader of the Future Award.

But they tend not to speak up, because most economists or others who see what's happening — and write about it or otherwise draw attention to it — are fired or blacklisted for not being team players.

But perhaps the most promising option, teased by a large group of tax law experts and vocally championed by prominent liberal economist Dean Baker, is for states to repeal their income taxes and replace them with employer - side payroll taxes.

«One important policy question on which most economists appear to agree, however, is that there is very little to be said in favour of taxing corporations.1 Many would agree, for example, that the title of a recent paper — «The Corporate Income Tax and How to Get Rid of It» (Vickrey, 1991)-- adequately conveys the main message of the extensive economic literature on this subject.

While there may be some truth to this, there is widespread agreement among most economists (with Peter Navarro perhaps being an exception) that unrestricted trade is beneficial and protectionism is bad for any -LSB-...]

It's worth noting that most experts, including Freddie Mac's chief economist, have predicted gradually rising rates for 2015 as well.