Sentences with phrase «further weaken the economy»

His supporters might point out that the 9/11 attacks hurt the economy; that the recession that hit in March of 2001, his first year, probably really began earlier; and that the cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and against terrorism have further weakened the economy.

Not exact matches

While my own view is that the economy is likely to weaken much more sharply than the FOMC believes, I also believe that further interest rate cuts will be largely ineffective in stimulating loan growth or economic activity.

Risks associated with investing in Industrials include the possibility of a worsening in the global economy, acquisition integration risk, operational issues, failure to introduce to market new and innovative products, further weakening in the oil market, potential price wars due to any excesses industry capacity, and a sustained rise in the dollar relative to other currencies.

Despite the Fed's bland, understated statement of «further weakening» in the economy that accompanied the decision of the new rock - bottom rate, the significance of the moment was not lost in the discussions inside the Fed's marbled headquarters.

A second source of risk would be a further sharp appreciation of the Australian dollar, which might be driven by additional interest rate reductions around the world to combat a weakening global economy.

The Japanese economy continued to weaken in the first half of 1998, prompting the announcement of further policy measures by the Japanese government.

Further increasing the strength of the USD was the United States» aggressive policies towards fighting its weakened economy.

Realistically, this means resisting efforts to further weaken national and regional economies.

We can not raise taxes — that will only further weaken a debilitated economy — so we must adopt a pro-growth national agenda to create the tax revenue to stabilize teetering municipalities.

They then introduced a whole series of measures which weakened the European economy by comparison with those of the Far East and America and so on.»

Given the foregoing decisions already taken with respect to shoring up the Nigerian economy via external funding, seeking the advice of international economists to further help strengthen the weakening economy should be a next useful step.

«Furthermore, China, a major trade and business partner to a number of African countries is currently slowing down as it remodels its economy, sparking fears of further weakening.

Cohen also said that the WFP's big spending, anti-taxpayer agenda would do further damage to the weakened economy and a state government on the brink of financial collapse.

GOP's message Already, House Republicans have built a message surrounding the issue that hinges almost exclusively on the argument that carbon caps will further raise costs for consumers and drive some business out of the country, further weakening the country's economy.

A sustained move of the 10 - year Treasury note yield above 5.5 percent would crimp consumers» and companies ability to borrow, further weakening the housing sector and damaging the economy as a whole, strategists said.

The Greek government, elected early this year on a platform of ending years of austerity imposed by Germany and other lenders, is pushing back against further pension cuts and higher taxes, saying they would further weaken an already crippled economy.

And that's not even addressing the possibility that the domestic economy and / or the global economy weaken further.

In parallel, the global economy continued to grow by more than 3 %, offering further evidence that the link between economic growth and emissions growth is weakening.

Because of this, the Russian economy fell into a deeper recession than other commodity - based economies, weakening the ruble relative to the USD further than what otherwise would have been expected.

South African investors are also concerned with the further weakening of the SA economy and the Rand.

They don't want inflation rates to fall too far, as this limits their ability to boost a weakening economy, but neither do they want tightening labor markets to overheat and lead to accelerating inflation.