Sentences with phrase «in the panic of»

Many times, entrepreneurs find themselves with a new client or a big order, and in the panic of the moment, they hire an employee or two to quickly fill the demand.

A student of the Great Depression and a former economics professor at Princeton, he likely knew better than anyone in the Bush White House what was at stake when so many major U.S. investment banks were poised to fail in the panic of 2008.

«Orthodox economic historians have long complained about the «great depression» that is supposed to have struck the United States in the panic of 1873 and lasted for an unprecedented six years, until 1879.

The two most relevant regulations were: 1) the prohibition on interstate banking, which created overly small and undiversified banks that were highly prone to failure; and 2) the requirement that federally chartered banks back their currency with purchases of US government bonds, which made it prohibitively expensive to issue more currency when the demand rose, leading to the currency shortages and resulting panics that culminated in the Panic of 1907.

In the panic of dealing with a spill, most of us will reach for any cleaning product to attempt to lift the markings.

He went on to make the case for the reserve powers, calling on MPs to let it be worked out now, rather than in the panic of a series of terrorist strikes.

The content of the film is told in parallel stories, Henry (Ewan McGregor) who is with his two younger sons Thomas and Simon struggle in the panic of the aftermath to reunite with wife Maria, whilst eldest son Lucas (Tom Holland) remains strong for his Mother (Naomi Watts) who is badly injured and fast losing hope.

Its name was changed in 1844 by James Van Rensselaer, a merchant who came to the area from Utica, New York after his business failed in the Panic of 1837.

Not exact matches

The only good news about the big guys is that there is another group of them (think AOL and Yahoo for starters) who are so lost, so behind the curve, and so desperate to deliver something for their shareholders that they are constantly running around and throwing money at the shiniest new things in a panic.

We yank our hands away from hot stoves, leap in panicked jerks out of the path of on - coming traffic as the freak - out motorist careens wildly through traffic to avoid us.

Lost in all the panic and hype was much of Flash Boys itself.

There is something quintessential in the way the posters do not say «Don't Panic» or «We Will Prevail»... They say «Keep Calm,» and what that means is, «We may be suffering something of an invasion at the moment, but that's no reason to start acting in a rash and hot - headed manner.

Things like handling the roller coaster of emotions, from incredible excitement, to waking up in the middle of the night in a state of panic, and how an entrepreneur can learn to deal with those emotions.

When the Bank of Canada released its latest survey of business managers on Monday, it confirmed what we've known for some time now — companies in Canada are a panicked bunch.

Following the lead of voters in Seattle in 2016, the Chicago City Council passed an ordinance in October requiring hotels to provide panic buttons to workers by next summer if they work alone in guest rooms.

«That's left investors in a state of panic,» he says.

Often companies panic when their product is used in unintended ways, and then spend an untold amount of time and money trying to get the «right» people to embrace it.

Michal Kauffman writes: By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward with significant investments and real money: from the European tech team that is jazzed about the acquisition, to the U.S. tech team that's threatened by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc....

In 2009, state - sponsored bank bailouts led to widespread panic; despite deep budget cuts, Ireland plunged into the deepest recession of any EU country.

What caused so much panic wasn't plummeting share prices; it was the mess underneath the mess: complex packages of high - risk mortgage securities that had been sold and resold, hedged, leveraged, and partitioned into untold numbers of pieces — and which in a momentary flash of Wall Street realism, now seemed to have little (or unknowable) worth.

Still, even if you take out the Obama Trauma, in which the stock market fell nearly 13 % following the current president's election in 2008 — and, to be fair, the country was in the middle of a financial panic — the average return in a month following the election is 0.4 %.

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

One of the best ways to prevent yourself from panicking is to make a plan in advance.

«If we get some kind of unexpected hiccup in the business plan, they won't panic,» Jacober says.

Rather than panic, Wojcicki reverted to her Wall Street analyst self, gathering vast amounts of information, certain a solution was hiding in plain sight.

The first followed the Panic of 1837, which triggered downturns in states that had invested in canals and railroads, or that had insolvent state - run banks (this latter problem is echoed by Puerto Rico, whose Government Development Bank is in deep trouble).

Is that tightness in your chest a sign you're about to have a panic attack, a nasty case of pneumonia, or a sneezing fit?

An email arrives inviting you to speak in front of a group of business leaders, and you panic.

One of the app's main features is a «panic button» that teachers can hit to send a school - wide alert (every phone and computer in the school will sound an emergency tone).

Then, they often start panicking while a mental soundtrack of self - defeating thoughts plays in their heads.

An investor who panicked and only later re-entered the market would have found that his bank account at the end of the bet was a lot smaller than a hypothetical account in which he earned the index - fund returns for the whole period.»

The error followed the false emergency alert that prompted mass panic in Hawaii this past weekend, but in this case, the mistake was corrected in a matter of minutes.

Investors, who have already priced in the risk of a politically paralyzed Washington, are supposedly less prone to panic.

Her first case, in 1998, was a five - year old girl from Brooklyn who flew into a panic about keeping the clothes she wore on the Jewish holiday of Shabbat separate from her regular clothes.

Anyone who's gone through a holiday shopping season trying to find the «It» thing for the year knows the panic of having it sell out and hoping for it to come back in stock.

According to a new survey conducted by Axios and SurveyMonkey this month, Millennials are in a bit of a panic, and they blame the Boomers.

In internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg News, AHLA wrote that the union - backed «panic button message» was «deemed by many experts and hoteliers to be a solution in search of a problem.&raquIn internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg News, AHLA wrote that the union - backed «panic button message» was «deemed by many experts and hoteliers to be a solution in search of a problem.&raquin search of a problem.»

... So even though it's not true that nobody will like us, that part of our brain in that moment sort of panics and does what it has to do to belong.»

Since 2013, New York City housekeepers in all unionized hotels — hundreds of properties across the city — have been equipped with panic buttons that summon help.

With market volatility making headlines, it's easy to get caught up in the day - to - day ups and downs, panic, and lose sight of your long - term investment goals.

An ordinary jaunt through a rote office turns into a panic - inducing creep; «Prey» revels in fear of the unknown.

By handling the immediate task in front of you before moving on to the next, you'll avoid that creeping sense of panic that comes from biting off too much.

Panic and confusion in Hawaii lasted more than half an hour Saturday morning, after an alert was pushed to people's phones warning of an incoming «ballistic missile threat.»

Launched in October 2008 under Bush - era Treasury secretary Henry Paulson during the panic that followed the implosion of Lehman Bros., TARP was initially designed to prop up bank balance sheets via the government purchase of equity stakes or the acquisition of illiquid assets.

Ferrari hasn't done turbos in this type of car since the 1980s with the F40, so there was concern, possibly even overt panic, among the Ferraristi.

In markets news, the stock market's most important driver has already peaked — but Bank of America offered five reasons why you shouldn't panic.

Soviet commanders panicked at the show of force and nearly bathed America in thermonuclear energy.

The panic soon became self - perpetuating, with a reduction in foreign capital leading to a slowdown in economic growth and a drop in commodity prices, which then led to investor confirmation of an economic downturn, which in turn led to more capital flight, and so on.

That would be the biggest one - day slump in stock market history, by more than double, besting the 777 point plunge that happened on October 29, 2008, at the high of the panic surrounding the financial crisis.

So instead of charging a smartphone, running it down to 10 percent power, and then heading home in a panic to plug it in, users would connect the phone to a baby stroller or a rolling suitcase, charging the phone as they pushed or pulled.