Sentences with phrase «live in a market economy»

After all, we live in a market economy that can adjust, innovate, and progress.

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In response to such a call from the G - 20 in Washington, D.C. last week, Germany's finance minister side stepped the issue and talked about the need for the ECB to start withdrawing its money market liquidity — i.e., whatever remains of a meager life support to economies crushed with 19 million people out of work and 3.6 million of young people unable to find jobs and make a livinIn response to such a call from the G - 20 in Washington, D.C. last week, Germany's finance minister side stepped the issue and talked about the need for the ECB to start withdrawing its money market liquidity — i.e., whatever remains of a meager life support to economies crushed with 19 million people out of work and 3.6 million of young people unable to find jobs and make a livinin Washington, D.C. last week, Germany's finance minister side stepped the issue and talked about the need for the ECB to start withdrawing its money market liquidity — i.e., whatever remains of a meager life support to economies crushed with 19 million people out of work and 3.6 million of young people unable to find jobs and make a living.

She thinks that an improving U.S. economy will boost insurance sales, while a better labour market will result in more group life revenues.

«Concerns about the economy, political stability and the increasing cost of living are causing apprehension for consumers in some markets, leading them to pull back on spending,» the report added.

The task of rhetoric is to divert attention from the fact that the financial sector aims not to «free» markets, but to place control in the hands of financial managers — whose logic is to subject economies to austerity and even depression, sell off public land and enterprises, suffer emigration and reduce living standards in the face of a sharply increasing concentration of wealth at the top of the economic pyramid.

If that doesn't happen, the extent to which wage inequality remains embedded in our economy and labor market means that these recent gains are likely be short - lived.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Last year, the global economy roared back to life as synchronous recovery in both developed (DM) and emerging (EM) markets propelled growth to a 3.7 % annual average.

However, if we live in a market driven economy don't those who have a resource hold power?

Why this is important: The financial markets play a critical role in the lives of everyone and without which the modern economy would not function.

Finnur Eiriksson, a computer scientist living in Reykjavik, said, «The exorbitant prices in the housing market, so early after the collapse of the Icelandic economy, are quite shocking.»

The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) brings together the governments of countries committed to democracy and the market economy from around the world to support sustainable economic growth, Boost employment, raise living standards, maintain financial stability, assist other countries» economic development, and contribute to growth in world trade.

Richard: Great insight as always, and last time we talked about the commercial real estate bubble and we thought today we'd do a special focus on the millennial generation and how financial repression through repressed interest rates and quantitative easing has resulted in asset bubbles that ultimately have affected the millennial generation in terms of their values, how they look at the economy and life and the way they're conducting themselves in the economy: what they're facing in terms of the housing market and the job situation.

Last time we talked about the commercial real estate bubble and we thought today we'd do a special focus on the millennial generation and how financial repression through repressed interest rates and quantitative easing has resulted in asset bubbles that ultimately have affected the millennial generation in terms of their values, how they look at the economy and life and the way they're conducting themselves in the economy: what they're facing in terms of the housing market and the job situation.

What was hoped to be a short - lived flare - up in the housing market could burn uncontrollably throughout the economy.

So if you have one kind of growth — booming financial fortunes in the stock market, higher real - estate prices and more expensive means of living — then you are going to have slower growth in the real economy because money is diverted from peoples» pay - checks away from buying goods and services to just having to pay the banks.

If you're living in Alberta today, you don't really care about this debate over whether there's a recession or not; you know the Alberta economy is contracting and labour market conditions in Alberta have weakened a lot.

In one sense the discovery of human individuality was necessary for the development of human rights, the economic individualism orientated to profit and free market produced the modern economy; the separation of human being from nature coupled with the autonomy of the world of science helped the development of technology; and the autonomy of different areas of life like the arts and the government, each to follow purposes and laws inherent in it, did make for unfettered creativity in the various fieldIn one sense the discovery of human individuality was necessary for the development of human rights, the economic individualism orientated to profit and free market produced the modern economy; the separation of human being from nature coupled with the autonomy of the world of science helped the development of technology; and the autonomy of different areas of life like the arts and the government, each to follow purposes and laws inherent in it, did make for unfettered creativity in the various fieldin it, did make for unfettered creativity in the various fieldin the various fields.

This is the political economy (OIKOS) of God in which Jesus Christ has fulfilled the Servanthood to serve all, that is, to raise them up as the subjects of life in the global market.

Whatever the specific reforms — and we would expect a period of experiment to see what forms are most effective — the major benefit in the democratization of the economy would be to limit the harshness of the labor market, to give everyone who works a stake in the enterprise he or she works in and even in the economy at large, thus reducing both the anxiety and the cynicism that are rampant in our present economic life.

The democratization of the economy would limit the harshness of the labor market, give everyone who works a stake in the enterprise he or she works in and even in the economy at large, thus reducing both the anxiety and the cynicism that are rampant in our present economic life.

If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.

When I lived in Vladivostok in the mid-1990s, Russia's new market economy offered a wide variety of food products, domestic and imported.

When the economy and housing market tanked, the media was filled with stories about how many would - be divorced couples were staying together for the sake of the house — neither could afford to live in it solo and no one else could afford to buy it.

When religion has a role in public life, it enables us to look at our economy and refer to the Christian principles on which our markets were founded.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

While we live in a market - driven economy ~ where winning and wealth accumulation are desired outcomes ~ education advocates on all sides of the political aisle currently assert that public schools are failing our children ~ especially minorities and low - income students.

As a result, the advantages of vocational training in smoothing entry into the labor market have to be set against disadvantages later in life, disadvantages that are likely to be more severe as we move more into being a knowledge economy.

Suggested learning activities include: taking students on a field trip to the local shop or bank to see real money and consumer practice in action; using the $ 50 as a stimulus, exploring the life of Indigenous entrepreneur and inventor David Unaipon; setting up a classroom economy such as a shop, showcasing learning through planning and creating a market or small enterprise; and planning, budgeting and managing an event, such as the school fete or an Elders lunch.

The Bathing Women follows the lives of four women - Tiao, a children's book editor; Fan, her sister, who thinks escaping to America might solve her problems; Fei, a hedonistic and self - destructive young woman; and Youyou, a chef - from childhood during the Cultural Revolution to adulthood in the new market economy.

Europe wants an interoperable e-book market (Teleread) I keep asking this question: Do we live in a global economy or not?

In today's economy and job market most of us are living paycheck to paycheck.

Today, New York Life holds more than $ 425 billion in assets under management — and it has set many financial records throughout the past several years — even given the state of the volatile stock market and unsettled economy.

You have a great blog and are clearly very bright and above many of your peers in the finance industry.As you know, when the market goes down, it pretty much takes everything down with it and small caps have been hit even harder.Everyone feels dumb when the prices of their stocks decline and feels smart and vindicated when prices turnaround and shoot up.We are living in challenging times and the macro is likely to affect future stockmarket performance affecting 80 % of all stocks for a long time to come.Stocks as part ownership of businesses are affected by the global economy.In the meantime, most stock prices have been gyrating based more on Mr Market's emotions of how various economies will emerge than anythingmarket goes down, it pretty much takes everything down with it and small caps have been hit even harder.Everyone feels dumb when the prices of their stocks decline and feels smart and vindicated when prices turnaround and shoot up.We are living in challenging times and the macro is likely to affect future stockmarket performance affecting 80 % of all stocks for a long time to come.Stocks as part ownership of businesses are affected by the global economy.In the meantime, most stock prices have been gyrating based more on Mr Market's emotions of how various economies will emerge than anythingMarket's emotions of how various economies will emerge than anything else.

Fort Erie's real estate market is known to be among the most stable in Canada and this coupled with a healthy economy make Fort Erie, Ontario highly rated in quality of life ratings.

I asked him... so if you lost your job how long could you live without another job with all your bills including that mortgage and what you have in savings before you have to start tapping into that money invested in the market at a loss that would have paid off our house probably because the economy is in the toilet and that was the reason you lost your job.

We live in a country with a major part of the world economy and investing in the US market gives us international corporations that benefit from the success of the rest of the world.

«In today's challenging economy, supporting the communities where we live and work is more important than ever,» said Cliff Cook, chief marketing officer for U.S. Bank Retail Payment Solutions.

Though this surge is propelled mainly by the public's trust in stable employment, the positivity is, in contrast, conveyed with hesitancy in sectors such as quality of life, the stock market and the economy.

That could inform how far artists such as Sammy Baloji and Ibrahim Mahama can aspire to create and sell works that echo the living conditions of the people and the physical environment in which they live, within a growing and at times, brutal global market economy.

And if you are right and all that extra CO2 has no negative effects, and life in the future is wonderful, and life on earth becomes even more diverse and many species are added rather than become extinct, and the the fiat economy is booming based on the Keyensian model, and the long purported idea of a free market as promulgated on MSNBC by Larry Kudlow makes the economy safer and more productive than ever (and we get rid of all those silly regulations regarding safety and pollution that limit the profit potential of corporations), you can eat me (though in the world you imagine, you probably would prefer a nice ribeye).

As changes in technology, markets, and business models rock the energy business, I think of our work in Buffalo as a living example of what a just transition to a sustainable energy economy might look like — and an example Midwest cities can learn from.

This brief highlights that the cooperative model can considerably enhance the lives and livelihoods of indigenous peoples, assist in securing their rights and give them a greater opportunity to be part of the formal labour market and economy at large in an environmentally sustainable way.

«What the commodity markets are telling us is that we're living in a finite world, in which the rapid growth of emerging economies is placing pressure on limited supplies of raw materials, pushing up their prices....

Others we've met at a Green Festival, the MREA's Energy and Sustainable Living Fair, or a farmer's market are finding creative ways to solve our problems today with renewable energy, energy conservation, and sustainable food systems, all while thriving in a local economy.

There's also the question as to how REDD abets underwrite carbon spewing in developed countries, through carbon markets (it does, but it also protects forests, and is a short - term solution before lower - carbon economies come to life).

From learning to love your stuff, to establishing a personal green stimulus plan, as long as we live in a market - based economy, I see more promise in using our money and our purchases as a tool for change than I do in rejecting the evils of money all together.

The benefits of a market economy in China have created wealth that has allowed the Chinese government to initiate many social programs that have generally elevated the standard of living of the Chinese people.

The cash value in a whole life plan has a guaranteed rate of interest — so it grows each and every year, regardless of what is occurring in the stock market, or even in the economy overall.

With the upward growth in Indian economy Sahara India Life Insurance Company provides specially crafted insurance product linked with capital market so as the insures should also earn straight profit from the great potential provided by these markets.