Sentences with phrase «in normal times»

However, we're not in normal times and good financing is a bit tougher to come by.

But even in normal times, contractors should provide you with their license number up front so you can check them out with the authorities.

In normal times, after owning a home for 10 years, you'd probably have at least 30 % equity in the home from appreciation alone.

That's a major relief, although it was still above where it sits in normal times, when the spread is less than 0.50 percent.

On Friday's «PBS NewsHour,» New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that asking about citizenship on the Census doesn't seem unusual «In normal times,» but «given the climate, it strikes me as...

In normal times, such a loony story would get no play but these aren't normal times.

President Obama could, in normal times, reckon on an easier ride from the Senate because it will be perceived as a replacement of a liberal by a liberal.

This model arouses clients» suspicion and distrust in normal times but it can be disastrous to the attorney - client relationship when the economy sinks.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is that in a globally heating world we are not living in normal times, so «normal» (neoclassical) economics may not be entirely appropriate for thinking about what's going on, and how best to deal with it, and what policies to follow.

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The features that allowed one species or family to get through Snowball Earth or the Mexican asteroid or the Deccan Traps were by definition irrelevant to their adaptive fitness in normal times.

«In normal times, we could have lived with that,» he said.

My preferred monetary policy in normal times is for the yield curve to have about 50 basis of positive slope from twos to tens.

In his book The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham suggests starting with a half - and - half split between stocks and bonds in normal times.

In normal times, about 15 percent of consumers falls into the poor credit category with a FICO score under 600.

In normal times financial guarantors are money - spinners.

Markets behave differently in normal times, and under stress.

Unfortunately, such bargains tend to be scarce in normal times.

In normal times, positive and negative language co-exists.

The main problem with Mr. Graham's approach is that very few stocks pass the test in normal times and those that do tend to be quite small.

When banks were the main providers of credit, the financial stability mandate of central banks could be summarised as their lender of last resort function: in times of crisis, lend freely, at a penalty rate and against collateral that would be good in normal times but may be impaired in times of crisis.

The first lesson from mortgage rate history is that we are not living in normal times.

In normal times, historical data clearly show that going variable saves you money.

Granted interest rates are miniscule right now but in normal times that money is better served sitting in your own account earning interest and remaining available for your use throughout the year.

In normal times, wild populations would evolve around such problems, but humans are introducing so many challenges so rapidly that evolution doesn't have time to generate the needed adaptations.

Now, three centuries of historical records show that women don't just outlive men in normal times: They're more likely to survive even in the worst of circumstances, such as famines and epidemics, researchers report.

Because if we can't find an economic force in normal times that drives our system to get larger, and it actually would have to outgrow, it has to grow, you know, faster, faster than the Internet, it has to have some other reason for being or else we'll continue to shrink relative to the incumbent, and so how will we ever have enough scale?

In normal times, Muzzio said, Grimm could only win if Donovan had a scandal over his head or was incompetent.

But again, in normal times, he is a loser.»

For the Party Chairman to voice such sentiments should hardly be required in normal times.

Difficult policy changes that might have been impossible in normal times become more feasible.

In normal times, a candidate for governor of New York who fathered a love child with an employee, admitted to forwarding bestiality porn and racist chain e-mails, compared health - care reform to 9/11, and referred to the state's longtime Assembly speaker as «Hitler» and the «Antichrist» might not have a shot as a mainstream nominee.

The Lt. Gov. job, in normal times, is what James Nance Gardner pronounced the importance of the VP job: it ain't worth a picture of warm spit.

Osborne's plans to legislate to run a budget surplus «in normal times,» require huge cuts to public services and in - work benefits.

But we are not living in normal times.

In normal times, the obvious story would have defeated the imaginative ones.

«In normal times, such a loony story would get no play but these aren't normal times.

In normal times, the debate over monetary policy is between «hawks» who want the Fed to emphasize its inflation target, and «doves» who want it to focus on lowering unemployment.

In normal times we'd find an excuse or ten.

In normal times we'd suggest team changes and find a -LSB-...]

Also loyalty is an admirable quality, in normal times.

In normal times the people may be content with representation and constitutional judicial review, while they largely focus on private affairs; while at times of what Bruce Ackerman calls constitutional politics the level of civic action may become extraordinary (Ackerman, 1991).

Economic security for all men means something about colonies, about tariffs, about the free access of goods to those people who must have raw materials and markets if they are to have in normal times a standard of living adequate to relieve hunger and permit the free development of body and spirit.

In normal times, Uncle Joseph lived in a nearby neighborhood among the privileged intellectuals.

In normal times it's reasonable to believe clients are concerned about how well a manager can handle a downturn.

We note that in normal times SVXY has a beta of about 3 - 4 (as referenced to SPY).

In normal times, Section 18 of the Act says the Bank can only buy (or sell) certain types of assets — coins, foreign currencies, federal and provincial / territorial debt, debt issued by the U.S., Japan or the European Union, International Monetary Fund (IMF) special drawing rights, and bills of exchange or promissory notes issued by a bank or authorized foreign bank provided they have a maturity of no more than 180 days.

In normal times, if the rest of the world economy suffers, the United States or any other affected economy can offset the loss of demand and competitiveness through monetary easing.

If you raise at a $ 40 million pre-money on what would in normal times have been a $ 15 million valuation you're fawked if the market corrects and you need another round.

Having more resilient banks with sufficient capital and liquidity reduces the probability of widespread liquidity crises.9 That would help make market - making more robust, though probably at lower levels of activity in normal times.