Sentences with phrase «longer boom years»

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AFTER 30 years of designing products such as kettles, bike racks and even bra holders, Perth - based industrial designer Edward Khoury has decided the lure of the mining boom can be ignored no longer.

DURING the sustained economic boom that came to a screeching halt one year ago, business leaders were unanimous in advocating a long - term approach to dealing with the big strategic issues.

Guggenheim fellow and Detroit native Clemens was there for much of the year - long decommissioning process, as workers stripped the plant's salvageable parts and carefully disassembled its press lines for shipping to booming factories in Mexico and Brazil.

While builders are selling more units than in the last several years, we're still a long way from the boom years.

A year - long construction boom has helped boost prices for building materials and resources from steel and copper to iron ore, helping to create a reflationary pulse worldwide in commodities markets and manufacturing.

As Millennials enter their peak consumption years and Baby Boomers live longer, the two groups will provide a double barreled boost to consumption, bringing with them increased U.S. GDP.13

Speaking on Day 2 of the conference, Dr Lawrence Yun, (pictured), Chief Economist for the National Association of Realtors, predicted that United States housing demand would continue to boom over next five years, as long as job growth continued.

With the youngest boomer age 50 and most of the generation retiring over the next 16 years, making the right investment decision has become more crucial than ever before, as the risk of making speculative gambles can no longer be entertained.

The run - up in credit growth and the associated boom in house prices in recent years presented two implications for the economy: they tended to boost growth in the short term, but carried the risk of a damaging correction if they continued too long.

Still, experts say, most nations failed to take advantage of the boom years to carry out long - term changes to their economies.

Making the problem more acute: Those years may well last much longer, with many Boomers expected to live well into their 80s and 90s.

It wasn't long ago that economists were worrying about the threat of a populist takeover in the Europe and predicting an investment led boom in the U.S.. However, since the start of the year, ratings agencies have upgraded their growth forecasts for Europe's largest economies and slashed its predictions for the U.S. Moody's is expecting...

According to one of my boomer elders, one year (1965, or 1966, depending on the American locale) it was scandalous for an unmarried woman to have been known to have «done it,» and by the next year, it no longer was!

But when the religion boom of the post — World War II years was over, it could no longer be ignored.

Likewise in the year 2000 a book came out called «The Long Boom» predicting that we were halfway through a 40 year period of unprecedented economic growth that would last until 2020.

New York City's economy is booming, with 702,200 jobs added between 2009 and 2017 — the longest economic expansion in more than 70 years, according to state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli...

But, once released from its constraints, we flooded over the planet and, in 2000 years, we peeled the land of large game species (with the exception of Africa, where those species had time to co-evolve with us) and fueled a population boom that we could no longer feed by hunting.

Investment in the semiconductor industry was flat in Q2, and investment in networking companies, a favorite during the Internet - boom years, showed another drop in a long string of investment declines.

For the booming moose population of Isle Royale, a key species in the world's longest running predator - prey study on the island, skulls have shrunk by about 16 percent over a 40 - year period.

University of Louisville's Robinson takes a longer view and expects it will take another 20 or years or so, when baby boomers are in their 80s, for the robots to be widely accepted in seniors» homes.

It's not clear whether the boom's anchors — which are cheaper than those usually used for permanent structures at sea — will keep it in place over the year - long trial.

The population of Americans age 65 years or older is expected to double during the next 25 years to about 72 million, as baby boomers age and people live longer.

Long life span, enjoyed as never before by America's baby boomer generation, is expected to increase another 10 years worldwide by 2050.

His proposal for an anchored network of floating booms and processing platforms received a lot of criticism — but now, just over a year later, Boyan is back with the results of a year - long investigation that shows his invention does offer a feasible method to rid the world's oceans of plastic pollution.

Dating services for seniors are booming as more and more people are living longer and looking to enhance their golden years.

I've worked for more start ups than I care to mention and I've had my fair share of successes and failures and have been through the dotcom boom of the late 90's as well as the telecommunications boom that lasted about a year or so longer.

BUSINESS WIRE - June 8 - For many baby boomers with seemingly stable long - term marriages, the notion of separating or divorcing after surviving so many years together remains almost unthinkable.

Even so, it should be obvious, and I tried this out on a 9 year old this week, new generations, those whose eyesight will not deteriorate for a long time to come, those people can read prints I can't even read with my reading glasses, thus they could care less about the size of the font available in a Kindle, leaving the Kindle sadly to the declining Boomers, who are spending $ 500 on the average when they buy a Kindle, while an entirely new computer generation is buying this new crop of Netbooks that are full computers in pretty much all senses, but are even smaller in size than the Kindles, and smaller in price.

Now Boomers are faced with possible shortfalls in social security and 401 (k) s, longer years in the workforce, and... divorce?

While once a popular loan option during the real estate boom years of 2001 to 2007, interest only loans, for the most part, no longer exisit, or are super hard to find.

So if you're going into a hyper - growth period for a long period of time... buying companies with high growth and paying for that growth versus paying for assets would obviously outperform if the next few years the economy was booming.

I'd guess many baby boomers will be in a similar situation by the end of their long lives: 90 or 95 years of relatively strong mental health, followed by a year or two of this type of loss of mental acuity.

That's because for a wide swath of boomers, the financial crisis has left them without adequate assets and savings to survive for long without a paycheck — tarnishing the gleam of their golden years.

We had boom years in the»90s, and most DB pension plans were overfunded for a while, but the boom gave the illusion that returns would be stupendous for a long time, and companies stopped contributing as much or at all to their DB plans.

In another 5 - 10 years, it won't matter anymore, because foreigners will no longer fund the gaping needs of the US Government as the Baby Boomers retire.

And recently, we advised our Boom & Bust subscribers to buy long - term Treasurys at around 2.99 % on the 10 - year.

In the real estate boom years from 2000 to 2007, these long held niche programs became highly abused — resulting in law changes that all but essentially made them illegal to offer.

Expecting a long and happy retirement, three Boomers each invest $ 200,000 with a fifteen year time horizon.

Hundreds of Greater Toronto Area residents were caught when the housing market took an abrupt dive last year after a long run of booming activity.

While years ago, people might have stuck with the same job for the long haul (and in fact, more than 40 % of Baby Boomers stayed with their employer for 20 + years), today's economy is much more fluid, with millennials more willing to act on job opportunities and move from company to company.

While the humanization trend and the empty nests of Baby Boomers often get the lion's share of credit for fueling the success that the pet care market has enjoyed in recent years, that success ultimately may not have been possible without the handful of product manufacturers that have long served as the bedrock upon which the retail pet industry was built.

As China races towards modernity, no one can say how long these areas will be preserved: «downtown» Shangri - La is already under construction, the rapids in the Great Bend may be gone in a few years, and Beijing, as a result of the Olympics boom, is fraught with traffic and pollution.

Jomtien is by far the most popular alternative to Pattaya, this beach is more than 3 times as long and it's really booming with many bars, restaurants and hotels popping up there every year.

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Long - time art collector Michel Cox Witmer, who also serves as the official US ambassador to the annual TEFAF fair in Maastricht in the Netherlands, told artnet News that a key difference in the current iteration of the fair, as compared with earlier years, is that «business is booming, but there is a lack of a frenzy.»

Ali Ağaoğlu, a billionaire developer in Turkey, caused a stir last year when he admitted that his family's company — and most other developers — routinely used inappropriate materials during a building boom in Istanbul in recent decades, creating enormous vulnerability because of the long history of powerful earthquakes in the sprawling city.

The first signs of a fossil - fuel bust emerged early last year with growing evidence that the decade - long boom in global coal demand was peaking.

Clean energy has boomed in recent years, but to guarantee its continued growth investors need stable, long - term policy support, three of the Bay Area's leading energy journalists told a Climate One audience on February 3.

Last year might well be looked back on as the occasion that really kick started China's DG solar boom — a boom that has been long overdue.

These middle firms also expanded rapidly in the boom years, making good profits often without using analytics to look at profitability and their human capitol long term needs.