Sentences with word «jawboning»

We still worry that too many policymakers and citizens will assume that «standards» by definition require «standardization»; that «reform» can be achieved by a combination of jawboning, regulation, and low - cost testing; that humiliation is a necessary part of competition; and that the universities will not wake up to their obligation to support reform vigorously.

But what intelligent human being would ever suddenly have turned bullish on the morning of Monday 15 May 2017 just because of renewed jawboning from Saudi Arabia and Russia, indulging in the same old two - step as they did at Doha in April 2016 and Vienna in November of last year.

We are currently in an era where jawboning does not work well, because of the overleverage in the financial system.

The two men spend vast amounts of time jawboning about nothing in particular and when that wears thin, McDonagh hauls in eccentric side stories.

Since the media largely missed what the data from OPEC's February Oil Market Report (covering January OPEC & global oil data) actually showed, and since Saudi jawboning about oil supply and demand in advance of the Aramco IPO has been keyed to keeping oil prices higher, we'll take a quick look at that report, which is available as a free download.

Rather than jawboning companies to make uneconomic decisions, Trump and Congress should instead work with major employers to train and educate workers.

Ultimately B.C.'s new tax will likely fail to cool the overheated market for the same reason every other effort to date — tighter mortgage lending standards, larger down - payment requirements, jawboning bordering on pleading from the Bank of Canada — has failed.

Until a month or two ago, the market was weary of OPEC's continuous jawboning and calls for patience while waiting to see markedly reduced global oil inventories.

The Fed's credibility trap just grows larger and larger, as evidenced by the rate hike this month and subsequent jawboning from FOMC participants.

The Australian dollar sank below US88 cents after a Reserve Bank of New Zealand jawboning effort on its own currency struck a chord on Thursday, prompting more traders to pile into the US dollar.

Knowing that, Perez returned to the floor of the convention hall, where he relentlessly jawboned DNC members to ask for their votes in the second round.

Keith, currently running for Congress, has been allegedly jawboning Democratic elected officials and other party members to support the nomination of Perry at the party's judicial convention on Sunday.

The coverage reminded me of the well - orchestrated pre-fight hype of a heavyweight championship bout — a match ultimately memorable not for the dramatic or unexpected outcome but for the staged antics at the weigh - in or the endless jawboning from both camps.

«Our belief is that he is indeed quite concerned, and that despite current dovish jawboning, he will ultimately tighten more than investors currently expect.»

A rally in the dollar could be the result of spontaneous combustion, as traders choose to cut exposure to the dollar carry trade, or by central bank jawboning.

Anyhow, promising signs of an early taper and not - so - severe jawboning on the euro were all that the euro bulls needed to charge in.

Through a combination of jawboning, incentivizing, regulating, mandating, forbidding, spotlighting, and subsidizing, he can significantly influence the overall direction of the K - 12 system and catalyze profound changes in it (though the system is so loosely coupled that these changes occur gradually and incompletely).

He jawboned Carrier into keeping jobs in the United States, threatened Boeing for the cost of Air Force One and Lockheed on its F - 35 aircraft, and pharmaceutical companies on their high drug prices.

Is all of this jawboning just saber rattling to keep the dollar from plummeting, or is there a chance that Bernanke actually will raise rates at the Fed's August meeting?

Add to this an automated regimen of Treasury and MBS «asset» purchases (despite the «taper» jawboning that periodically hits the media) in an attempt to keep long term interest rates down and deleverage the previous bubble, and you have policy working over-time.

I've been personally convinced that a Fed who can not lift interest rates right now (as Bernanke told us in recent testimony, «the economy would tank» if the Fed raised rates) will use «jawboning» to attempt to influence financial market behavior.

Between now and 2009 we may be stuck with that «any other» language, which means that regulation, guidance, and jawboning are needed to make restructuring happen on a faster track for the kids who need it most.

Then again, I don't believe that most of the jawboning done by the Fed is useful.

If FHASecure fails, then the President's program will be revealed for what it is: jawboning and voluntary efforts that produce little result.

Shortly after the release of the meeting notes, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was quoted as saying «highly accommodative monetary policy» is needed for the foreseeable future as a jawboning action to stem the recent market sell - offs.

An insider in the Bush administration told Barron's that Fannie and Freddie «are being jawboned» by the Treasury Department and their new regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), to raise more equity.

Despite Mr. Bernancke's jawboning, there isn't any way out.