Sentences with phrase «make economic sense of»

We can argue the virtues of conventional versus paddle - shift transmissions until we're blue in the face, but the truth is that once Ferrari began offering F1 - style transmissions in its cars, buyers spec'd so few manual - equipped cars that Ferrari couldn't make economic sense of offering a choice any longer.

Not exact matches

If one member of the household makes a good enough living, a cost - benefit analysis will often conclude that it makes economic sense for the second earner to stay at home or work part - time.

Apart from the obvious environmental benefits, this made a lot of economic sense pre-2008 when natural gas was expensive and looking to get more so.

Of course, those refineries could be re-tooled, but that wouldn't make much economic sense.

First, assess whether the cost of your degree makes economic sense with the starting salary for your chosen career.

«With the mini-bond program, for the first time since IDBs were created, I can show a potential borrower an IDB financial analysis that makes a lot more sense than a traditional commercial loan,» says Rick Palank, director of the St. Louis County Economic Authority in Missouri, one of the first offices to implement a mini-bond program.

University of Alberta business professor Andrew Leach says that even absent new pipelines, a long - term differential greater than the cost of moving barrels by rail «doesn't make economic sense.»

In principle, a free trade area across Africa «makes perfect economic sense,» Ben Payton, head of Africa at risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft, told CNBC via email.

As a result of the new plan, the solar industry says selling solar in Nevada no longer makes economic sense.

Your current misery makes economic sense according to professor Angus Deaton, one of the study's co-author.

However, the 7 kWh battery does make economic sense in certain markets overseas, particularly in Germany and Australia because of tariffs and the electricity - rate structures in those countries, said Tesla co-founder and Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel.

Four years on, the F1 boss appears to be frustrated again as he tries to keep one of the most glamorous races on the calendar after the contract expires in 2017, at a time when the city - state is weighing whether the event makes economic sense anymore.

But flex policies for older workers can make sound economic sense when you consider all the costs related to not retaining older workers, including recruitment, training and development of their replacements, says Barbara Jaworski, chief executive officer of the Workplace Institute, which helps organizations develop older - workforce strategies.

As a result, if you hurry, you can jump ahead of them and deliver valuable and truly differentiated products and services to a marketplace that is ready, willing, and able to buy anything that makes economic sense — and that makes common sense out of the tsunami of meaningless data that they're swimming in right now.

Despite plenty of populist opposition, road tolls actually make good economic sense when it comes to building and maintaining roads and controlling congestion.

But the Gawker founder remains devoted to the idea of reader comments, and to the necessity of reader interaction in general for media — both because of the principle involved and because he says it makes economic sense.

Mr Kenny said the outcome from the discussions «has to be one that is fair, one that makes economic sense and one that is sustainable from a financial point of view».

To make sense of what's really behind the fluctuations in the market, we are joined by economist Michael Hudson, president of the Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends, a Wall Street financial analyst and author...

This mania for income trusts has me wondering how the rash of conversions from corporate entities to income trusts can make good economic sense.

This statement is in sharp contrast to the statements of analysts at IHS Markit and GTM Research that new cell and module factories in the United States do not make economic sense despite the imposition of tariffs on imported modules.

In that sense, the Fed has the potential to make a huge structural difference in the economic lives of blacks and other minorities by heavily weighting the full employment part of the their mandate relative to the inflation part, especially since there's still considerable slack in the job market, with lower - wage, minority workers facing the brunt of it, and — importantly — little evidence of inflationary pressure (if anything, the Fed has missed their inflation target on the low side for a few years running now).

Steve Ketchum, executive director of Sound Point, told Bloomberg that in Puerto Rico, «there are no obvious great economic difficult situations... We are comparing Puerto Rico with some of the worst situations of sovereign debt in history and it simply does not make sense to us, especially since Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States.»

Moore has oft repeated his mantra that supporting the arts makes good economic sense, in a statement perceived by some as criticism of the B.C. Liberal government's cuts to arts funding.

The interest rate decision is also important, but sometimes the press conference after the bank meeting can make more sense because it reveals the sentiment and the insider atmosphere, which is very important for an objective assessment of the economic health.

«It makes all kinds of accounting sense,» says Camposano, since Halo is beyond worrying about survival; the company has achieved steady revenues that are unaffected by economic cycles or seasonality.

Much of the money has been squandered in money - losing industrial projects and vanity infrastructure spending that make no economic sense beyond supplying temporary bump - ups in GDP growth.

If you currently have a student loan with a very low fixed interest rate, it makes more economic sense to pay only the minimum payments because of the low fixes rate and because of inflation.

This makes sense considering the global economic and financial - market backdrop of the period, but it was a bad time to be long gold and a very bad time to be long gold stocks.

So with that caveat let me try to make sense of global economic forces.

But if the main reason you're investing in gold is for protection of your financial assets during an economic downturn or «Black Swan» type event, it hardly makes sense to place your trust in the banking system.

Similarly, if the Series A is participating with a cap, there will be a range of merger consideration values where the holders of Series A will be indifferent because the cap has been met, but it still does not make economic sense for the Series A to convert.

For any given individual, migrating to the mainland makes a lot of sense given the economic conditions on the island.

And if that's the case it makes little economic or ecological sense to spend billions of dollars building new fossil fuel infrastructure and increasing capacity, particularly when that infrastructure has a working life span and expected financial return that well exceeds thirty years.

The concept of a license can also be used in another sense — in an economic one; the system attempts to make each participant into a concessionaire of the monopoly that develops his films or plays back his cassettes.

While the Muslims lost in the economic, political, and educational spheres, the Hindus made corresponding gains all around due to their realistic acceptance of the new order and their freedom from a false sense of pride.

It makes all the logical sense in the world that Time, Inc., had to put the movement on its cover and co-opt it, for Time's investment in the «In God we trust» capitalism and institutions of our political - economic - mythical lives is not inconsiderable.

Oh, and from a totally nonreligious standpoint, helping our citizenry get a strong education and stay healthy so they can continue to be productive members of society instead of winding up on disability or on unemployment due to limited job skills happens to make economic sense as well.

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 fields.

Now it would seem to make more sense to subtract the economic costs of dealing with pollution and its consequences from the gains that have been made in the act of producing that pollution.

In time it came to involve art forms of all kinds, (heiroglyphics, drawings and carvings, images, tools, etc.) and for all purposes (ranging from what we would call economic (making a living) to what we could call religious (giving him a sense of meaning in life)-RRB-.

President of Berom Youth Movement, Choji Chuwang, told a local newspaper: «As we gleefully wallow in the false sense of peace on the Plateau, know it today that a deliberate economic terrorism and land - grabbing strategy is being launched on Christians of Riyom and Barkin Ladi on a daily basis with the sole aim of making them poor, weak and destitute in their own land.»

JED has been described as «an ecumenical sharing of abilities and expertise» and a partnership which makes «good, economic sense in these days of decreasing financial resources for the work of the church.»

These religious issues — personal formation and making sense of life — are often disguised by our relative affluence and the apparent assumption that getting everyone to middle - class economic status will solve all problems.

Comprehensive reform would provide documentation for most of the 11 million undocumented people currently in the U.S.. From an economic standpoint, this seems to make sense, given employment standing at 95 percent.

It makes culture fluid, redoubling the sense of vulnerability brought about by an economic system of «disruptive innovation» and expanded competition.

The most staggering news coming out of the soft drink giant's disappointing first - half result was confirmation the company had been cutting back on service and promotional activity in its Australian beverages business at a time when it made absolutely no economic sense.

He made three broad observations: (1)»... competition is not a myth in the sense that Australia has achieved a great deal since 1974...»; (2) «while much has been achieved, more needs to be done» (in this he agreed with recent comments made by Fred Hilmer) and (3) «where competition is clearly a myth, especially in the areas of infrastructure provision where there are monopoly providers, economic regulation is the complement to competition.

As far as the club's financials show, the man has only respected the club's tradition / philosophy of self sustainability and that's his offense as we all have been spoilt by other clubs» billionaire / State - aid owners distorting the finances with decisions which don't make economic sense and which create unfair competition.

While we on the matter... what a total farce on contract renewal, even the spuds seem to have got that sorted out — renewing long before time, and not paying out hefty wages either — I believe Kane is their top earner on # 125k, and for someone with an economic degree, how does Wenger not understand that having someone with a long contract makes not only financial sense, but sense in terms of the teams stability as well?

I know it doesn't make any economic sense, but I would say this to the Ox: either you go to the team with the highest bid — at this moment Chelsea — or we keep you at Arsenal as a benched squad player in the under - 23s and bury your chances of playing for England in the next World Cup, and explain to him that when he does go for free, it'll be to a club like West Brom on a quarter of the wage Chelsea are prepared to play.