Sentences with phrase «for other crises»

Asked why, given the compassion people have had for other crises, she suspects there are several reasons, starting with the sense that Americans know little about Yemen.

When staff and students are prepared, similar outcomes happen for other crisis situations.

Not exact matches

Since the financial crisis it has become increasingly challenging for central banks to maintain price stability without compromising other political objectives, such as encouraging economic growth.

Evraz's importance to the Western Canadian economy illustrates how tricky it will be for Ottawa and other western governments to escalate economic sanctions against Russia in response to that country's annexation of Crimea and its role in the Ukraine crisis.

For years, home - sharing giant Airbnb has had a quiet side project involving asking its hosts to offer temporary housing — for free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisFor years, home - sharing giant Airbnb has had a quiet side project involving asking its hosts to offer temporary housing — for free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisfor free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisis.

Unfortunately for Facebook's shareholders, it appears Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and the company's other leaders did not understand this basic rule of crisis management when handling the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The scrutiny Dimon has faced in recent years is in sharp contrast to the praise heaped on him earlier for steering JPMorgan Chase successfully through the financial crisis when other institutions were chastised for receiving government bailouts.

Kevin Johnson's response to the arrest of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks is an «instructive playbook» for other CEO's dealing with crisis.

But the new chair's own public speeches and comments throughout the past year have shown an evolving faith that the Fed's go - slow approach can continue, giving more time for workers to rebound from the 2007 - 2009 crisis without creating other economic risks.

From our CEO through our management ranks, there is a stronger appreciation for respecting our clients and customers, and respecting the lessons learned from the crisis and post-crisis that signify soundly that our company gets it and strives to do the right thing more so than other companies.»

In other words, the combination of a reach for yield, tax incentives, and the belief that default is impossible all contributed to a debt crisis that is likely not going to end well.

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).

Despite Canada's image as a bastion for conservative banking laws and post-crisis economic stability, Krugman warned that the crisis has yet to play itself out globally, and that the other shoe has yet to drop.

West Jet's recent handling of four consecutive bomb threats, sets an example for other companies on how to properly use social media throughout a crisis.

«Businesses may search for other markets, as they did in the past, during previous boycotts (as in the case of the Cava, the sparkling wine of Catalonia) or during the severe economic crisis in Spain.»

A leader can't justifiably be blamed for a force majeure or for some other unforeseeable, unavoidable stroke of bad luck, but oftentimes crises are caused from within and aggravated by the organization itself.

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.

Moreover, CBO's latest baseline assumptions predict earnings to grow faster for high - income earners than for others in the next decade, [32] suggesting that the Great Recession and financial crisis may have had only a temporary impact on the rising trend of income gains at the top, much as the impact of the dot - com collapse in the early 2000s was only temporary.

Vanguard, TIAA, Transamerica and others, she wrote, «expressed their support for the rule, and BlackRock emphasized that: «We need immediate action, as the longer we wait the deeper and more difficult» the retirement crisis «problem becomes.

This year it seemed, at times, that Germany was able to impose its will on other EU members, for instance over Greece's bail out or the refugee crisis.

Some of our tools are in the category of crisis management; others for crisis prevention.

I'm going to start with a short summary of what happened in Canada during the crisis, if for no other reason that I've never tried writing one before.

A row over tariffs will make it considerably harder for Washington and European capitals to cooperate on other key issues or when new crises arises.

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

Former Ontario Securities Commission chairman David Brown and others said this year that avoiding another financial crisis required a powerful entity that was accountable for the health of the entire financial system, not simply one aspect of it, such as lenders or bond and stock traders.

Don't miss our special Town Hall session on navigating the crisis moment in the tech industry, featuring participation from the Center for Humane Technology's Tristan Harris and others.

Yet, can bitcoin, or any other cryptocurrency be the solution for some of these countries going through a financial crisis.

Conspiracy theories have started to widely circulate claiming that some of the most visible student activists are not actually students but «crisis actors» meant to carry a message for liberals and other anti-gun lobbyists.

The letter to Garneau called for «a more pro-active and more predictable response to rail capacity issues,» adding that «speedy passage (of Bill C - 49) will do nothing to alleviate the immediate crisis for grain or any other commodity.»

It's a challenge for Canadians still struggling to cope with the record amounts of consumer debt they amassed after the 2008 financial crisis because lenders use their prime rate as a benchmark for setting some other short - term rates including variable - rate mortgages and lines of credit.

Mercy Corps team members are working tirelessly to provide lifesaving aid for hundreds of thousands of people affected by Syria crisis, and others living in conflict and crisis.

They consider a range of arguments for owning gold, such as: (1) gold hedges inflation; (2) gold hedges currency decline; (3) gold is attractive when other assets are not; (4) gold is a safe haven in times of crisis; (5) gold is a de facto world currency; and, (6) central banks and investors in aggregate are still underweighting gold.

A crucial move for the U.S. is to shift its crisis to other countries — by coercing China to buy U.S. treasury bonds with foreign exchange reserves and doing everything possible to prevent China's foreign reserve from buying gold.

Today, thanks to IOER, ON - RRP, and other Federal Reserve programs and powers put into effect during the crisis, the demand for Fed balances has dramatically increased.

In other words, a 750 credit score coming out of the financial crisis counts for more it did ten years ago.

On our team, we have an immense amount of trust, confidence and respect for each other which helps us manage through any tough times or market crises.

«The bottom line is that potential output growth in Canada and other industrialized economies will be lower than it was in the years leading up to the crisis»...» Our most recent estimate for Canada is that it will average just below 2 per cent over the next two years.

It is also expected to account for an even greater share of the total industry revenue, this is because they require higher fees than those charged by hedge funds and declining popularity of other alternative asset vehicles in the aftermath of the subprime mortgage crisis.

And the desperate pleas for help that continued Friday from Cruz, as well as other Puerto Ricans in more isolated parts of the country, suggest that far more is needed from the Trump administration's response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis.

And he explains how he and other policy makers such as Treasury Secretaries Henry Paulson and Tim Geithner groped for approaches that would first stop the crisis, and eventually push the US economy back to growth.

As the financial crisis unfolded around him, even as his stock portfolio shriveled, he realized that steady income allowed him to qualify for loans that few others could get.

There was temporary fiscal stimulus at the height of the crisis in 2009, called for by the IMF among others.

Much of this reflects the fact that we did not have a financial crisis in Canada (like that experienced in the United States and other countries) and our relatively large stimulus package provided much needed support for the private sector in supporting demand.

In other words, if there were to be a crisis in one or more of the emerging powers like China, India, or Brazil, it would be the sort of thing that Fischer has spent his career preparing for.

As the global financial system struggles to work its way out of the crisis and regulators in the US and Europe begin the painstaking process of derivatives reform, prime brokers, dealers and other derivatives providers find themselves staring across a dramatically altered market for options, futures, swaps and structured and more - exotic products.

The other is an immediate budgetary debt crisis that has been gathering steam for the past 10 years.»

Swaps and other derivatives, blamed by some for causing the global financial crisis, have returned in a big but deceptive way.

For over a year, in other words, the Fed reacted to a growing liquidity crisis not by taking steps to boost credit in general, but rather by reallocating the existing supply of credit towards particular, troubled firms — a move George Selgin examined (and criticized) in detail in a recent post on this blog.

For those of us on the other side of the world who feel far removed from the refugee crisis, we still have a part to play.

He also criticised Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Arab gulf states for what he believes is their lack of response to the refugee crisis.