Sentences with phrase «let alone someone»

And gold prices tend to spike on rumors of war, let alone when the shooting begins.

«I would love if we had 3 percent growth for two years, let alone seven years, but we have an aging population and there is no plausible story I can tell where we're on a path toward sustained economic growth at that level.»

It's no wonder, the CDO market went «no bid» at the height of the Global Financial Crisis - investors had no idea about the worth of the underlying assets sitting in the CDO's, let alone the CDO's squared or cubed!

I'm making some reasonable money from blogging, but it's still dwarfed by my income from other sources, let alone what I might have made if I'd started a conventional business in 2008.

David Rubenstein, a private equity titan and friend of Mnuchin's, engaged the Treasury Secretary in a friendly back and forth that never touched on immigration at all, let alone Trump's comments that have drawn global condemnation and rebukes from some in his own party.

After the oil price collapse and a huge corruption scandal, Petrobras has struggled to stay afloat, let alone find the billions of investments needed to develop new deposits.

My sister and I emigrated from Iran back in 1984, and just knowing that in the world there are countries, such as Iran, where women have no rights, and they can't work let alone run a corporation, and certainly aren't treated as equals... this is what fuels us, keeps us passionate and pushes us forward.

We have the well - worn discussion of 30 - somethings in New York and London about how hard it is to rent, let alone buy, a home.

In the end, we did have some investment options, but we weren't even being offered the cash portion of the buyout offer, let alone the optionality on some significant upside.

«Matching, let alone beating, this record and the revenue it generated in 2017 was always going to be against the odds.»

Regular people, however, don't even have APIs into their bank accounts, let alone the broader economy.

What we don't know is how many families have been destroyed since the LBO because nobody has bothered to even ask the question, let alone count them.

When the Fed raises interest rates next year, before the economy shows any real signs of overheating, let alone recovery, it could trigger another recession.

[5] Reinvigorating Canadian participation in, let alone sponsorship of, unofficial, Track 2 processes, is challenging, most directly because of lack of funding and support for academics and experts to represent Canada.

But what do Facebook's MAU stats have to do with your participation in Facebook, let alone the like levels on your business page?

This staggering defection rate is rarely discussed, let alone addressed.

But even a cursory analysis of the study's methods makes you wonder why anyone would take such a finding seriously, let alone order a Quarter Pounder With Cheese to celebrate it, as many newspaper readers no doubt promptly went out and did.

That even a small adjustment in Chinese demand, let alone the large one I expected, would cause a big drop in global demand seemed brutally logical to me and, I hope, to the clients to whom I tried to explain it.

For example, I have been skeptical about the sustainability of the Chinese growth model since at least 2006 - 7 but I have never argued that China would collapse, let alone collapse within six months.

It can be difficult keeping track everything you have to do, let alone the people you work with.

It's easy for a Facebook user to like your page, but it's far less likely that they will see the content you posted, let alone interact with it and visit your business Facebook page.

The fact is the federal government does not have a deficit, debt, or spending problem, let alone a crisis.

There was no time for specification of a proposal, let alone consultation on its merits, estimates of its revenue impact, or evaluations of its economic impact.

These companies are not regulated by capital markets board of their countries let alone SPK.

«Furthermore, in the main, historians educated as Keynesians and monetarists do not understand the economic history of money, let alone the difference between a gold standard and a gold - exchange standard.

The chances, however, that this Bill will receive approval from the Senate, let alone the House of Commons, are non-existent.

It's an adventure on the weekends as there's constant maintenance — escalators, lights, you name it, let alone tracks.

By the end of the evening one thing was clear — Giuliani had concocted such a shifting, nebulous alibi for Trump that it didn't even hold up to a few hours of media scrutiny let alone a future interview with a Federal prosecutor.

For that matter, the Republican moderates in the Senate might suffice to keep it from getting 50 votes, let alone 60.

And that is after the event, let alone beforehand.

The rub is that totally eliminating all deductions for those with incomes over $ 1m would not even raise enough revenue to cover reducing their marginal tax rates from 39 to 33 per cent, let alone offset their benefit from huge rate reductions on business and corporate income, and the elimination of estate and gift taxes.

Mr. Harper, of course, never actually believed that the G - 20 would listen to him, let alone adopt his recommendation to commit to lower debt burdens.

Mere intelligence wouldn't give an AI the ability to reshape all matter in its vicinity, let alone control over every machine in its vicinity.

Plus the province hasn't even identified, let alone granted, all of the 60 plus permits needed from B.C.

And when I speak on this topic in public I like to remind people that, «when I raised capital there were no easy ways to figure out who were the friends of the VC's (let alone who the VC's were in the first place) but in 2009 you have alll the social networking tools: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or even just plain old Google Search.

Even if tax cuts could generate more growth than estimated, no plausible amount of economic growth would be able to pay for the tax plan, let alone reduce deficits.

Social Security payments are relatively small and might not even cover the basics, let alone emergency expenses.

And some who have recently seen Tillerson say the former ExxonMobil chief executive — unaccustomed to taking orders from a superior, let alone one as capricious as Trump — also seems to be ready to end his State Department tenure.

In this age of zero privacy, Mark Leonard has managed to maintain a practically unthinkable level of anonymity for just about any individual — let alone an IT executive who runs one of Canada's most dynamic, fastest - growing and most acquisitive software companies, and who has been compared favourably with Warren Buffett and Prem Watsa.»

«We're making progress, but the pace of change in the private sector is so great and the pace of change in government is so slow, even to get a budget passed, let alone get a turnaround in the fiscal situation,» said Joe Brennan, president of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association, a lobbying group.

The local government's crippling debt of more than $ 73 billion and PREPA's own obligations of $ 9 billion made it hard to keep up with critical maintenance like trimming tree branches away from power lines, let alone make upgrades to make the energy network.

Justice Douglas» opinion struck that law down as inconsistent with a Constitutional right of privacy, notwithstanding that the U.S. Constitution nowhere mentions any such right, let alone even using the word «privacy».

Voters like you and I couldn't get that much face time with our representatives, let alone the Prime Minister's top adviser and confidant.

I'm sure that you, just like me, know people who border on superhuman and seem to be able to spin that many plates at a time while feeding a baby and dictating the next literary blockbuster, but most people have a hard enough time doing two things well, let alone three or more.

The problem is that very few plan participants use it, let alone understand it.

You've lost before you started as soon as you concede 2 % is even an acceptable average target, let alone a ceiling.

To compound your wealth over sixty years is no easy task, let alone when the starting point is on your 18th birthday with $ 1,000,000.

While Musk laid out both the ideas and the goals of the notional project, he failed to share any concrete framework, let alone an in - depth study looking into its feasibility.

«Bottom line, there is still no signs of a change in spending behavior due to the drop in gasoline sales, let alone from the big pick up in job growth.

Such actions don't often — if ever — lead to wins, let alone easy wins, as the President will soon find out.