Sentences with phrase «larger economic point»

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This crisis hit the world's banking system hard, stressed whole economic regions to breaking point, almost defeated the world's (then) largest currency and has yet to be, basically, sorted out.

The larger point Wolfers seems to be making with his response to Trump is that looking at the number of record - high closes in a narrow period is not a particularly good indicator of economic performance — particularly for a president who inherited a stock market that was already relatively high in value.

From bakers to retailers and construction firms, more than a dozen of Mexico's biggest companies cited concerns over NAFTA and the election and issuing conservative guidance in recent weeks, despite economic data pointing to an uptick in Latin America's second - largest economy.

2018 Outlook: «A synchronized improvement in global economic and financial market conditions means fundamentals are likely to play a larger role in driving individual stock prices, while geopolitical risks and investor complacency leave markets vulnerable to bouts of volatility that may present us with attractive investment entry points.»

Business and economic sentiment surveys in the euro bloc's largest economy have pointed to worsening growth expectations.

As of late, the heads of two of the largest central banks in the world (the Fed and the ECB) have pointed to the fact that it is up to the politicians to enact policy to spur economic growth.

«Perhaps Jesus is actually making a larger point about an alternative economic system.»

He has argued that no democracy has ever suffered a famine — a striking instance of his larger point that many issues of distribution can not be analyzed in economic terms alone.

So given the 6 point win for Obama in 2012, it seems that the votes that «put him over the top» as @Affable Geek rightly calls it were the groups he won by decidedly larger chunks (i.e. blacks, Hispanics, Asians, younger voters and women), rather than a specific economic group:

My point is not that «extra money» should be paid routinely but that we acknowledge our presence within larger hegemonic social and political - economic structures that shape and inform these everyday interactions in important ways.

The Chancellor answered 96 questions in total, so it allowed a large window of opportunity for backbenchers to raise questions or points sceptical of the government's economic agenda - backbenchers could have urged the Chancellor to pursue fiscal consolidation more vigorously, or pressed for a more pro-growth direction, and so on.

SUNY Poly's founding president, Alain Kaloyeros, is regarded as Cuomo's point person on many of the state's largest economic development projects.

The mayor's interjection came in the context of a larger point about de Blasio's campaign focusing on the economic fissures that divide New York.

It was originally one diner's innovation, but as Kraig pointed out, «It's greasy food that's supposed to counteract alcohol,» which has made it all the more locally relevant as colleges like the Rochester Institute of Technology have become larger economic drivers in the region.

He points out that in 1986, when one of Brazil's many economic plans temporarily raised the income of large segments of the population, there were shortages of many basic items of food almost immediately.

In a late December interview with TIME's John Curran, Gross pointed to the second half of 2010 as a period when investors large and small will reckon with a new reality of poor economic growth and a Federal Reserve that is hard - pressed to offer much help.

While Hellblade's general quality is its own argument to be made for immediate purchase (and if you're into character action / adventure games I'd argue it's a sufficient one at that) I think there's a larger point that can and should be made for its place within the economic structure of the industry as an unabashedly pro-consumer offering.

We can think of the 1980s as a point of large political and economic shifts.

He believed that by pointing out the cruelty, economic oppression, racism, and brutality enacted by individuals as well as governments, viewers of his work might be moved to change society or at least to consider their own role in larger systems of power.

Economic impact estimates completed over the past 20 years vary in their coverage of subsets of economic sectors and depend on a large number of assumptions, many of which are disputable, and many estimates do not account for catastrophic changes, tipping points, and many other Economic impact estimates completed over the past 20 years vary in their coverage of subsets of economic sectors and depend on a large number of assumptions, many of which are disputable, and many estimates do not account for catastrophic changes, tipping points, and many other economic sectors and depend on a large number of assumptions, many of which are disputable, and many estimates do not account for catastrophic changes, tipping points, and many other factors.

I'm just pointing out that we've been through economic downturns before — far larger ones than could be supported by the hugely exaggerated claims of those who purport economic disaster due rational action taken to reduce CO2 emission.

It goes on: «Economic impact estimates... depend on a large number of assumptions, many of which are disputable, and many estimates do not account for catastrophic changes, tipping points, and many other factors.»

The latter point is supported by the results in Fig. 5 showing how, for fixed risk reduction values, rising flood protections lead to larger socio - economic impacts than in the case of relocation and vulnerability reduction.

The most probable outcome (at least on the 100 year time scale) has risks that are probably manageable, but as Marty Weitzman at Harvard has pointed out, we need to pay attention to the tail of the risk distribution, because the economic and societal risks can be very large there.

Though I've got to roll my eyes a bit at Monsieur Vie's own sense of the scale of the current economic woes — the crisis is affecting and is going to affect millions more than «a few people» — his larger point that the environmental crisis and its global implications can not be allowed to take a backseat to the economic one in global agendas is valid.

In the case of Wills, this is simply a matter of long standing tradition with the force of law, and there is no real solid substantive reason that it should be treated otherwise, other than the difficulty of proving which Will was real and which was the last one when the author is dead and can't clear up that point, and lots of people have large economic incentives to lie about the question.

... a [large] corporation may well be too large to be the most efficient instrument of production and distribution, and, in the second place, whether it has exceeded the point of greatest economic efficiency or not, it may be too large to be tolerated among the people who desire to be free.

Our theory has been that the institutions will come back at some point in the future because, with over Three Million people, the Inland Empire is just too large an economic environment to ignore.