Sentences with phrase «from recent think»

The group's advocacy draws from recent think tank pieces and other sources to argue for «a new definition of public education, which is publicly funded and publicly accountable — and encompasses private schools.»

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«Folks may have an inclination to do drastic things in portfolios to insulate themselves from higher volatility when in fact we think the backdrop would actually portend the exact opposite,» Mills told CNBC's «Futures Now» in a recent interview.

Minutes from a recent Federal Reserve Advisory Council meeting suggest the regulator is more interested in the virtual currency than previously thought.

A recent report from Standard and Poors argued, «We expect Fannie and Freddie to be around for the foreseeable future in their current form, and we think the government will support them.»

Has the thinking among traditional media giants — who have frequently downplayed the competition they face from services like Netflix — evolved at all in recent years?

Now, with the relatively recent string of primary dealer failures (Countrywide, Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill, and now MF Global), a rational observer might think the NY Fed had moved to beef up surveillance activities designed to protect the financial system from excessive risk taking at primary dealers.

But given recent improvements in cost, plus the ever - better ease of installation and quality of service, I think they're set to take even more revenue from the legacy telecoms.

In fact, 29 % of respondents in the recent poll think that environmental spending should decrease, which is up from the 9 % who felt that way two years ago.

And clearly, Canadian entrepreneurs aren't optimistic for the future: a recent study from PROFIT magazine said that nearly 40 % of small business owners think another recession will hit by the end of next year.

Trump's recent warning that Pyongyang would face «fire and fury» was initially thought by some to have deterred Pyongyang from further tests.

A recent report from retail think tank Fung Global Retail & Technology estimated that the widespread closures among those four chains alone — nearly 400 stores — will leave approximately $ 2.5 billion in sales up for grabs.

Based on the findings from its recent MONITOR MindBase study, which lasted from 1997 to 2000, Yankelovich Partners Inc. has compiled an extensive database of American consumer categories designed to help entrepreneurs analyze how their customers think and why they buy.

A Morgan Stanley strategist thinks equities can surge more than 14 percent from their current levels despite their recent sharp pullback.

However, he says there's good reason to think Canada can manage the risks from debt, which he says is a natural consequence of several factors, including the combination of a strong demand for housing and the prolonged period of low interest rates maintained in recent years to stimulate the economy.

Which is what makes a recent Quartz post from entrepreneur Lauren Bacon so bracing (and thought - provoking).

«If China follows the typical pattern, the world will see hundreds of billions of dollars in Chinese overseas investment in the decade ahead, balanced between mature markets and natural resource hosts,» opined a recent report from the Rhodium Group, a private think - tank based in New York.

«I think the perspective from the United States supported by the facts that we have are conclusive: that the recent chemical weapons attack carried out in Syria was planned and it was directed and executed by Syrian regime forces, and we're quite confident of that,» Tillerson said.

Echelon is now focusing its growth on «smart» commercial & municipal LED lighting (although its fab-less chip business has apparently now stabilized after a long decline), and if the lighting business accelerates (and it could, due to recent sales force hires and new products), I think there's a chance it can hit a break - even annualized revenue run - rate of $ 40 million by Q4 - 2019 (pushed back from my earlier hoped - for timeline) at which point — assuming $ 14 million of remaining net cash (vs. an estimated $ 18 million at the end of Q2 2018) and 4.7 million shares outstanding (vs 4.52 million today), an enterprise value of 1x revenue on this 53 % gross margin company would put the stock in the mid - $ 11s per share.

Finally, I think this idea from a recent Jason Zweig article is a great way to think about your relationship with the market.

At our most recent gathering — a group of PR professionals from enterprises large and small — David was challenging and thought - provoking, but with a familiar humor that drew the audience in from the start.

Yet recent evidence suggests that fixed - income exposure could also benefit from pragmatic, well - thought - out smart - beta processes to portfolio construction.

«It would be a mistake to think it would be just contained to Greece,» he said, noting that policymakers had been wrongfooted in recent years by contagion from the sub-prime debt crisis.

Since I've received some recent emails from readers asking which card is better, I thought I'd do a post on the Chase Sapphire Preferred vs. Barclays Arrival Plus.

Stepping back from the market action, we want to pause for a moment and share some thoughts about longer - term investment strategy that have been part of our recent client conversations.

A recent report from the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center at the George Washington University said 54 % of millennials are concerned about their ability to repay their student loans, and nearly half don't think they could come up with $ 2,000 for an emergency.

If you want to learn more about why this hedge - fund insider thinks that there are big problems brewing, check out his insightful presentation from the recent Vancouver Resource Investment Conference.

From a global policy perspective, we think the Fed's recent hikes are the first stage in a cycle that will later this year see the European Central Bank (ECB) discuss a more normalized rate policy, and then lastly Japan's BoJ may at least expand its 10 - year Japanese government bond (JGB) yield target range.

Still, thinking from the Fed's perspective, we doubt that the Federal Reserve will be able to «justify» raising rates if recent economic deterioration continues.

For some additional background and recent thinking on vesting, you might find these videos and the questions from the audience helpful:

Jay Taylor gives updates on current show sponsors and shares thoughts from his recent Metals Investor Forum speech, «A Year of Epic Market Disruptions?»

14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.

The analysts noted «With the recent pullback in the stock (down meaningfully from a high of close to $ 47 a few weeks ago), we think the risk / reward has shifted to the upside.

On the subject of wage inflation, Rudolph - Riad Younes recently noted, correctly I think, that in recent years, «wages, plus equity withdrawal from your house, was enough to support your living standard.

In the United States, I think a big part of this recent global equity market selloff, particularly the violent nature of it in October, is an indicator that perhaps the scars from the 2007 — 2009 financial crisis still are fairly deep.

And in some instances, it has been Scalia and Thomas who have done so more than those who may think of themselves less as originalists (in one recent case in particular Scalia and Thomas dissented from the majority which held that convicted child molesters could be indefinitely imprisoned despite having fully served their sentences based on subtle shifts of language and the over-application of prior case law — no one wants a child molester free and about, but such results focused outcomes are always dangerous).

I thought this excerpt from the e-book «So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore» fit well with this and many other recent posts:

His is a journey from which he comes home at last by way of European thought of a recent vintage.

Finally, drawing mainly from the thinking of contemporary Calvinist and Lutheran theologians, the authors discuss the implications of recent scientific research on theological views about the human being as a creature made in the image of God.

In the recent lunacy that resulted from Harold Camping's outrageous predictions, I heard some crazy stories of people quitting their jobs, and selling all their stuff (or buying more stuff... I'm not sure why), all because they thought the world was ending.

Recent Catholic thought on war has, as I suggested earlier, diverged in important respects from the classic understanding of just war.

If one reads recent Catholic just war thinking one regularly finds the idea of right intention collapsed into just cause or used to reinforce that moral requirement, as in this formulation from the Catholic bishops of the United States: «Force may be used only for a truly just cause and solely for that purpose.»

The split between rational and mythic discourse which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative role in human consciousness.

He thinks that the recent swell in political interest is due to more churches getting involved in social action over the past 20 years, from running foodbanks with the Trussell Trust to working with Christians Against Poverty (CAP) in alleviating debt.

Traditionally the soul has sometimes been regarded as quite separate from the body in a way usually derived from one side of Plato's thought or, in recent times, from Descartes.

In thinking about the public order, notes Turner, Calvin College has drawn heavily on the legacy of the Dutch politician Abraham Kuyper (1837 - 1920), but he agrees with Mark Noll's observation that recent evangelical political thinkers have also borrowed «from the Anabaptist heritage, from the mainline Protestantism of Reinhold Niebuhr, or from the neoconservative Catholicism of Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and George Weigel.»

Some majors are missing from the report, including students who study religion itself, though the University of Michigan scholars believe recent trends of spiritual thought have proved damaging to religion.

As for that erosion, recent data from the World Values Survey tells us that only 30 percent of U.S. millennials (i.e., those born after 1980) think it «essential» to live in a democracy; 24 percent of those same millennials think democracy a «bad» or «very bad» way to run a country; and only 19 percent judge it «illegitimate» for the military to take over when the government is incompetent or failing to do its job.

Going back to what started this most recent topic on this thread, the opinion on Proposition 8 from the shameless conservative which Daniel posted, I have to say that I think this guy is playing word games.

The most significant recent theological formulations have been to some extent structured on existentialism which insists that the only path from thought to reality is through existence, my existence, with all the variables of my experiences coloring the picture.

I used to think it was the old European women from three or four generations back that had religion and superst.ition fed to them in equal amounts — even some as recent as my mother's generation with the nuns» stories about lying before communion and having their tongue fall out of their mouths, or having the stone lions in front of the protestant church come to life and eat them or having the earth open up and swallow them because they didn't go to confession.