Sentences with phrase «little effect they have»

Deploying so many factoids to so little effect has made them a scientific laughingstock, and endangered what scant reputation for intellectual seriousness Republican statesmen have retained.

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While the blood dripping from the tree was a great visual effect, it would have been nice if they waited a little bit longer to introduce Indominus.

If current estimates are correct that the leakage rate is around 3 percent, then we calculated that switching all coal plants to average - efficiency natural gas plants would have little effect on the power sector's contribution to climate change.

China's crackdown has so far appeared to have little effect on bitcoin's price, with investors from neighbouring South Korea and Japan taking over in the trade where Chinese investors left off.

Its work shows that marginal tax increases have little effect on economic growth, provided the revenue is used to pay for things such as education and healthcare.

Simply giving a conversation more breathing room can have a couple of powerful effects, according to Dumb Little Man.

In some industries — emergency medicine, airlines, trucking — long shifts with little sleep are the norm, and managers worried about potentially deadly oversights are paying increasing attention to the effects of sleep deprivation (many railways now have directors of alertness or similar roles).

But even little changes can have a big effect

Margie Patel, a senior portfolio manager at Wells Fargo Funds, said that she expects to see little to no effect from trade tariffs and has been adding to companies such as PNC Financial Services that have sold off in the market downturn.

But where housing is easy to build, it has little effect on prices, and doesn't have a significant influence on the rate of homeownership, he said.

Media stories about how robots are taking jobs are plentiful, but little actual research has been done to measure how much it's happening or what the real effects are.

While there have been studies, such as the Card and Krueger study referenced by the CUPE report that show little or no job loss from a higher minimum wage, other studies have found instances where raising the minimum wage had a negative effect on employment.

However, Seif sees little evidence to suggest these pressure campaigns are having any effect.

Shrewsberry said at the Barclays» conference that there has been little effect so far on customer behavior at Wells, but only time will tell if that remains the case.

Apparently the little critters have a big effect on our health and influenceeverything from digestion to immune response.

The same three factors that cause measles to spread through a grade school classroom, writes Gladwell, can be used to explain the Hush Puppies phenomenon: (1) contagiousness, (2) the fact that little causes can have big effects, and (3) the way change often occurs at one dramatic moment rather than gradually.

E-Trade said the deal would have little effect on 2018 earnings.

The rise of the franc has seen the Swiss National Bankintervene in the foreign exchange marketto little effect.

It's a little early for such a strategy since some of the effects aren't clearly known, but from the research I've seen it looks right now that there are going to be areas of his country that are going to run out of water, and disturbingly those are the same areas we have increased population growth.

Marijuana's ambiguous legal status appears to have little effect on cannabis investment euphoria.

Indeed, for the past several years, analysts recall geopolitics having little to no lasting effect on global stocks.

But the existence of such jurisdictions likely has little effect on the activities of transnational criminal groups in the US.

A little - noticed litigation may have a lasting effect on how companies move their marketing initiatives into the digital world.

While Medtronic and Pentair say the move will have little effect on their Minnesota workforce, it is an indication that even companies that remain in state have a decidedly negative view of Minnesota's tax competitiveness.

Lucky for you omelet lovers, the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee recently set the record straight when they dropped their longstanding recommendation to limit dietary cholesterol due to countless studies confirming that this variety has little effect on blood cholesterol levels — that means there's no reason to shun the yolk.

Now a brain - scanning study in NeuroImage brings us a little closer to understanding why these exercises have these effects.

But beyond these effects, monetary policy has little influence on the economy's potential growth rate.

Even though student loans have little effect on homeownership for most graduates, other factors should be considered before you buy a house.

The fallout is yet another example of Trump's ability to bring the self - proclaimed high - minded down to his more «everyman» level, which tends to have little effect on Trump and a lasting impact on the high - minded.

Most financial analysts expect that an insured loss of even $ 10 billion would have little effect on the insurance and reinsurance industries, aside from a probable hit to fourth - quarter earnings.

In recent years, other regulatory attempts at strengthening online privacy rules have also had little effect at chipping away at the power of the largest tech companies, ultimately aiding internet giants rather than hurting them.

As a general rule, however, «politics have very little effect on the stock market other than short - term knee - jerk reactions,» said Karyn Cavanaugh, Voya Investment Management senior vice president.

But if you examine the persistent and aggressive easing by the Fed during the 2000 - 2002 and 2007 - 2009 plunges, it's clear that monetary easing has little effect once investor preferences shift toward risk aversion — which we infer from the behavior of observable market internals and credit spreads.

In fact, some may have little or no effect, especially if your actions show that you don't truly understand what motivates your top performers.

It may be surprising that including estimated foreign GVA has so little effect on our conclusions about overvaluation here.

For JPM, which has over $ 2.3 trillion in assets, that $ 2.2 billion has little effect on the overall investment outlook for the company.

Furthermore, the rates at which these securities, by investors can buy and sell have little effect on their prices.

This means new units (shares) can be created or redeemed as necessary; supply and demand therefore has little effect.

In effect, recent weeks have seen weak buying pressure, but little aggressive selling pressure.

All this seems sensible enough, but I would have to say that there is very little evidence of this effect in operation in the asset boom of the late 1980s.

Not only is it hard to believe that monetary policy is anything like that powerful (particularly as the last of the increases — in August — had so little time to have effect), but the proximate cause of the sharp slowing is clearly found elsewhere.

It will likely have very little effect.

This had little effect on Horgan's legal and regulatory attempts to stop the pipeline that runs from Alberta to the British Columbia Coast from being twinned, however.

Meanwhile, extreme valuations imply the likelihood of steep market losses over the complete cycle, and also for poor S&P 500 total returns on a 10 - 12 year horizon, but valuations often have little effect on near - term market behavior.

Likewise, the frightening or exuberant features of any given business cycle typically have little effect on the very, very long - term stream of cash flows that stocks actually deliver over time.

Moreover, these measures tend to have little effect anyway, according to mainstream economists.

As we noted in our March 19 Institute Alert titled «China's Turn at the Trade War Table,» we believe that China's trade announcement was largely symbolic and could potentially have little direct effect on U.S. exports.

Canadian economists have said that the Conservatives» ill - considered proposal may be «a disincentive to growth,» «likely to have little effect on employment or wages,» and even «an incentive to fire workers and cut salaries.»

When China was underinvested, investments were nearly always productive, and so the ability to ignore budget constraints and hide the costs of nonproductive investment in the form of rising debt had little effect on the GDP data — or, to put it differently, rising debt did not reflect a rising debt burden.

But Cohn's last - ditch efforts to sway Trump had little effect.