Sentences with phrase «less than a recession»

Back then, policymakers feared inflation less than a recession.

For the Miata, the spoils of victory should be success, but sales for the first half of 2010 are just 9295 units, which is actually about 10 percent less than the recession - wracked year of 2009.

Not exact matches

That's considerably less not only than prior declines associated with recessions, but even with declines where no recession occurred.

If I could go back to the beginning (and was interested solely in maximizing my investments, which I'm not), I would invest only during recessions, when almost everything costs 50 % to 90 % less than it does during boom times.

The labor market recovery so far has made up less than half of the prime - age employment lost in the recession.

Hilary Stout illustrated this problem in The New York Times in June: «After all, the millennial generation has less wealth and more debt than other generations did at the same age, thanks to student loans and the lingering effects of the deep recession,» she wrote.

But as the recession tightened credit offerings, the popularity of microlending has extended to the U.S. — especially as aspiring entrepreneurs are starting ventures with far less than the $ 50,000 business loan threshold common at many banks.

Even since 1990, when many developed nations started trying to curb their greenhouse gases under a U.N. treaty, emissions had also fallen less in recession than they rose when the economy grew, he said.

But that's more or less where the rate has been since the recession, and it's still below pre-recession levels of more than 7 percent.

The TD Investor Sentiment Survey found that two - thirds of Canadian boomers are investing less now than they did before the 2008 recession.

Finally, as in most recessions, entrepreneurs have less leverage because there are more early stage startups than in previous years.

This country — where families are slightly richer, slightly better educated and definitely less battered by recession — seems even more fertile ground for Target than its home turf.

Women, who make the majority of all household purchases, have been greatly affected by their recession experiences, particularly those with less than $ 50,000 annual income.

Lately, a lot of people have also been asking me if businesses started during recessions are more or less likely to fail than businesses started during expansions.

«During this recession, the housing sector contributed less volatility to the regional economy than it did in much of the nation,» Mr. Dudley added.

They all have debt to equity ratios of less than 50 %, a good thing if a recession does occur.

And as this graphic from Freddie Mac's report shows, price appreciation is much less than before the last recession.

Combining the plausible ranges of employment and productivity growth in the coming years (but ignoring the possibility of outright recession), the bounds of average U.S. economic growth over the coming 8 years range between 0.7 % annually to an extremely optimistic 3.2 % annually, with a likely midpoint of less than 2 % annually for real GDP.

Employment growth is slowing and percentage of the population aged 15 and over working is less today than before the recession.

The favorable market performance associated with many historical economic expansions is fully accounted for by 1) favorable post-recession valuations, with the S&P 500 averaging less than 9 times prior peak earnings at the recession low, expanding to just over 11 times peak earnings in the first year of the bull market, and 2) favorable trend uniformity, which typically emerges almost immediately in the form of a powerful breadth thrust off of a bear market low, and is confirmed within a few weeks by much broader trend uniformity.

Junk bonds, for instance, are producing a less than pulse - quickening yield of 6 % which, adjusted for defaults (likely to explode during the next recession), isn't worth the risk — save in a few special situations.

The last time the firm grew revenue by less than 10 % annually was in the depths of a recession in 2009.

Yet April 30th 2008 was no less critical a turning point in the recession's history than these other dates, for it was then that the FOMC, having cut the Fed's target interest rate to 2 percent, resolved to cut it no further — drawing a line in the sand by which it unwittingly helped seal the fate of the US, and world, economy.

She found that, all else equal, for every one - percentage - point increase in the national unemployment rate, the starting income of new graduates fell by as much as 7 percent; the unluckiest graduates of the decade, who emerged into the teeth of the 1981 — 82 recession, made roughly 25 percent less in their first year than graduates who stepped into boom times.

And in his book, Children of the Great Depression, Glen Elder wrote that adolescents who experienced hardship in the 1930s became especially adaptable, family - oriented adults; perhaps, as a result of this recession, today's adolescents will be pampered less and counted on for more, and will grow into adults who feel less entitled than recent generations.

Looking ahead, my question is whether 2006 will show slow growth of less than 2 %, no growth, or turn into a classical recession.

This finding is consistent with the broader macroeconomic picture in 2008 - 2009, which shows that Asian economies were far less affected by the global recession than were industrialized economies.

Citing the 2010 General Social Survey evidencing that companies with employee stock ownership were four times less likely to lay off employees during the Great Recession than conventionally owned companies, ESOP Association President, J. Michael Keeling, urged the Congress to consider job sustainability when reforming the Federal tax code.

And Americans» support for meritocratic principles has remained stable over the last two decades despite growing economic inequality, recessions, and the fact that there is less mobility in the United States than in most other industrialized countries.

What I've seen is even adjusted for inflation, every time credit has risen by less than 2 % in the US going back to 1950, the US goes into a recession.

With the economy having had only quite a mild downturn, however, we start the new upswing with less spare capacity than would typically be the case after a recession.

By the New York Fed's calculation, this means there is less than a 5 % chance of a recession in the United States in the next 12 months.

«As recent research has shown, employees with employee stock ownership have more sustainable employment and were four times less likely to be laid off during the Great Recession than employees without employee stock ownership.

Kids are fine, wife is a great mother... currently earn less than 20k, been on WIC... have managed to keep my house through the recession... yeah your right, im lazy.

The loss of territory and the shrinkage of morale within the Christian community were much less pronounced than in the preceding two recessions.

If so, is the previous pattern to persist, and will the recession be less pronounced than its predecessors?

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

Precisely because demand in the U.S. continued to be strong, export sales from Asia fell less than might have been expected, giving those countries an opportunity to begin to recover from recession.

As a whole Christianity is displaying less weakness of morale and more vigor than in any of the three recessions which thus far have marked its course.

Although the food business suffered less from the recession than other industries, many specialty food producers — including Ramar Foods — had to tighten their belts at the beginning of 2009.

In terms of our collective understanding of economics and how to fight recessions, I think there's actually a lot less here than meets the eye, and indeed a lot of rather meaningless talk.

Labour's economic recordThe actions taken by the Labour government has ensured that during the biggest economic crisis in over 60 years, the number of York people claiming unemployment benefi t in December 2009 was still 45 per cent less than under the last Conservative recession.

Fisher said Mahoney decided during the recession not to raise her salary, but now she makes less than school superintendents who oversee smaller budgets and fewer employees.

Then, Obama is scheduled to give two big speeches next week to try and frame his administration's response to the recession, less than two months ahead of a midterm election where Democratic majorities in the House and Senate are on the ropes.

Two, in a country where we are spending less than 30 per cent of our income on capital expenditure and more than 70 per cent on recurrent expenditure getting out of recession will hardly be quick.

«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.»

«The falls in nominal wages that workers have experienced during this recession are unprecedented, and seem to provide at least a partial explanation for why unemployment has risen less — and productivity has fallen more — than might otherwise have been expected,» Claire Crawford, programme director at IFS, said.

A new report on public school funding across the country finds that most states are now providing less support per K - 12 student than before the 2007 - 2009 Great Recession — and that some states continue to cut funding.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

That comes after a year in which the fund grew by less than one percent — one of its worst performances since the end of the recession.