Sentences with phrase «higher than any recession»

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The OECD data finds other industrialized countries, not members of the G7, have come out of the slump a shade better than Canada, including Austria, Israel, Sweden and Switzerland, all of whom have higher employment rates today than prior to the recession.

The index is now trading at 20.2 times earnings, which, other than during the recession, is the highest it's been in a decade.

After decades of political unrest, recession and high unemployment, Ireland was the fastest - growing economy in the European Economic Community (the precursor to the EU), with annual growth of more than 5 %.

Two years on, the S&P / TSX was on average 51 % higher than during the recession.

Total sales for 2015 edged upward by 3 %, to more than $ 700 billion, and market research firm NPD Group forecasts that Americans will make 61.8 billion visits to restaurants and food - service outlets in 2016 — which would be the highest figure since before the Great Recession.

Labour force participation rates (the proportion already working or actively looking for work) for young Canadians have fallen since the recession, and unemployment rates are higher for youth than for older workers.

Knowing that if a compromise isn't reached between Speaker Boehner and President Obama, the result is a likely recession, should small - business groups back Boehner's insistence that the Bush tax cuts be preserved for everyone or should they acquiesce to the President's call for higher tax rates on people earning more than $ 200,000 a year?

Yet while the Fed has eased policy to lower joblessness and raise inflation in the wake of the 2007 - 2009 recession, central banks such as the BoE have also launched accommodative bond - buying programs despite higher - than - desired inflation rates.

She believes the current high unemployment levels are an effect of the recession, rather than of structural shifts in the economy, and that the Fed must fight joblessness before dislocated workers become permanently detached from the labour force.

Earnings are on pace to grow more than 15 percent this year, and if 2019 can nudge profits incrementally higher as the economy avoids recession, stocks could still reach fresh highs.

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.

«After a recession that was milder than in many parts of the country, we are seeing signs of a modest recovery in New York, but little growth elsewhere in the region and unemployment remains painfully high,» said William C. Dudley, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Over at WaPo, wherein I argue that a) when we hit the next recession, many policy makers will point to our higher - than - average debt / GDP ratio as evidence that we have too little fiscal space to engage in offset fiscal stimulus, and b) those policy makers will be wrong.

As a share of the economy, deficits are currently 3.1 percent of GDP and will reach 5.0 percent of GDP in 2027 and 9.0 percent of GDP within three decades — higher than any time except for 5 years during World War II and the Great Recession.

By contrast, 27 quarters into the early 1990s recovery, per capita government spending was 3 percent higher than at the trough, 23 quarters following the early 2000s recession (a shorter recovery) it was 10 percent higher, and 27 quarters into the early 1980s recovery it was 17 percent higher.

You may dismiss this as politically unthinkable, but when the next recession comes, we will start with much higher debt levels than we had in 2008.

A study of S corporations (small firms with 100 or fewer shareholders who are taxed as a partnership) found that those with ESOPs had higher average employment growth in the 2006 - 2008 pre-recession period than did the economy as a whole, and they also had faster growth following the recession from 2009 to 2011.

In the Great Recession and the previous recession, employee stock ownership firms had smaller employment cutbacks and higher survival rates than similRecession and the previous recession, employee stock ownership firms had smaller employment cutbacks and higher survival rates than similrecession, employee stock ownership firms had smaller employment cutbacks and higher survival rates than similar firms.

In fact, if you are retiring at the bottom of the recession, you can probably go higher than 4 % right?

One of them is that deep into an expansion, higher economic confidence reduces the likelihood that many markets will panic at the same time, and means market - specific stories are often bigger drivers than the more binary question of «recession, or not?»

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

While buybacks and dividends - as - a-percent of sales more than doubled from a post - recession low of 3.5 % to a high last year of more than 8 %, capex - as - a-percent of sales has largely stayed within a narrow range between 4 % and 5 %, and has not even recovered to its pre-GFC high.

Recessions have usually followed an inverted yield curve, when short - term interest rates are higher than long - term rates.

Today his net worth is much higher than it was before the start of the Great Recession.

Prior to each of the last seven recessions (shaded bars on chart), the yield curve was inverted with short - term rates higher than longer - term rates.

One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.

The new rate of 163 percent is higher than the peak reached by the United States prior to the recession.

The latest flow - of - funds data from the Federal Reserve confirmed that home - equity wealth reached a new nominal high this year: $ 13.9 trillion at mid-2017, $ 0.5 trillion above the 2006 peak and more than double the $ 6.0 trillion amount at the trough of the Great Recession.

The U.S. recently posted higher - than - expected GDP growth at a time when China's growth is slowing, the Euro zone is struggling and Japan has dipped into a recession.

Sweden grew out of its recession and, though unemployment is high, it is lower than ours.

When Americans have more money, they tend to buy more and bigger houses, and GDP per capita is far higher than it was during the baby boom and has been increasing steadily (until the current recession) and will doubtless do so in the future.

When the recession ends, we can be sure that we will find ourselves a society in which income inequality is even higher than it was in the late 90's.

But each major wave has set a new high - water mark and each major recession has been less pronounced than its predecessor.

The number of voluntary quits in 2015 was higher than it has been since the start of the recession in 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

An ongoing commitment to innovation and high - value production are key reasons why the UK's food and drink industry has emerged from recession in better shape than many other manufacturing sectors, according to a new report commissioned by the Food and Drink Federation from the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge.

Even the figures quoted by the President as the growth rate for 2016, is higher than the West African average especially when note is taken of recessions in the Nigerian and other economies.

Britain's emergence from recession is being felt much more strongly among high earners than normal workers, according to new data.

If the achievement of children who are temporarily eligible for free school meals due to the recession is higher than children whose families are on benefits for a longer period of time, then the gap between free school meal and non-free school meal children will narrow.

Robert Halfon (Harlow): In the recession redundancies have been higher among the over-50s than any other age group, including in Harlow.

«To the extent that it is better for individuals to stay in work, albeit with lower wages, than to become unemployed, the long - term consequences of this recession in terms of labour market performance may be less severe than following the high unemployment recessions of the 1980s and 1990s.»

Udoma, who stated this while briefing State House correspondents on Wednesday, pointed out that the growth was higher than that of the previous quarter, when the economy grew by 1.40 per cent and 0.72 per cent in the second quarter, which according to him was a confirmation that Nigeria had fully exited recession.

Gordon Brown claims low interest rates and high employment put the UK in a better position than during the last recession - do the figures add up?

The unemployment rate in the UK is now only 2.5 points higher than the 30 - year low that was seen just before the recession began in 2008.

Why black workers lost public sector jobs at higher rates than other groups during the Great Recession is unclear.

The number of children in economically insecure families remains far higher than it was before the Great Recession.

People high in emotional stability often respond to challenging situations, such as a recession, in a more positive, pro-active way than people low in emotional stability.

This is still much higher than at the start of the Great Recession in 2008, when 39 percent of children were considered low income and 18 percent lived in poor households.

Death rates among middle aged and older people are higher when the economy is growing than when it's heading for recession, reveals a long term analysis of the economic cycles of developed countries, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

A: I wouldn't say we are recession - proof, but our site traffic is higher than ever.

The short version: Teacher turnover rates don't change all that much over time, but we see higher turnover during economic expansions than during recessions.