Sentences with phrase «middle of a recession»

Raj Peter Bhakta launched WhistlePig whiskey in the middle of a recession, and there were some cold, lonely nights where he felt alone in his mission.
It was the middle of a recession, and the recent engineering graduate, a Cleveland boy, was happy just to have the job with the motion controls company in his hometown.
But the unemployment rate for African - Americans was 8.8 percent in April, as high as the white unemployment rate was in the middle of the recession.
(I'm certainly not inclined to give the U.K. Conservatives extra credit because they followed their instincts and imposed austerity in the middle of a recession.)
A long - term decline of a large sector is one thing; a catastrophic collapse in the middle of a recession is quite another.
Oil might be less expensive in the middle of a recession, but it will never be cheap again.
We were making a big investment in something with double - digit year returns, in the middle of a recession.
It's the middle of a recession and you're having a tough time job - hunting.
«I «m doing two redevelopment projects simultaneously in the middle of a recession, «said Kapp, president of Renaissance Realty Group.
Following on from the Stern review, we are imposing on our economy and manufacturers acknowledged costs that outweigh the environmental benefits, and we are doing that in the middle of a recession.
«He's had six years to get something done to improve the quality of life in Central New York, including the last two as part of the Senate Democratic leadership team, but all he's done is raise taxes by $ 14 billion, increase spending by 14 percent in the middle of a recession and look the other way while his Democrat colleagues were investigated for corruption.»
The public aren't exactly enamoured with the political class at the best of times, and proposing to extend it at taxpayers» expense in the middle of a recession and the Eurozone crisis is a decision that Sir Humphrey, were he still with us, would describe as «courageous».
Many economists believe cutting in the middle of a recession is a tragic mistake, whatever the deficit.
«And that's why they are now holding middle class Americans hostage in pursuit of their foolish desire to tax America's job creators in the middle of a recession
Editorial: The lure of the East — JAPAN is supposed to be in the middle of a recession.
It was in the middle of the recession and people were losing their jobs like crazy.
Smart and funny, this breezy and bittersweet drama carries dark resonance for a society caught in the middle of both recession and downsizing.
In the middle of a recession that was not of his making, a recession that was handed to him when he took office as president, Obama made education a priority.
It had a quirky dash, and it was launched in the middle of a recession in the early»90s.
Publishing a whole ton of manga volumes in the same month in the middle of a recession is just asking for trouble.
One word of caution, however — as of this writing Amazon will charge the Kindle account holder fifteen cents per document emailed, up from ten cents a year ago (can you say 50 % rate increase in the middle of a recession?).
I was terrified of the stock market after graduating in the middle of the recession.
Graduating in the middle of the recession cut my salary in half.
In the middle of the recession in 2008, the default rate was approximately 5 percent, which is lower than it is today.
Where the average investor gets these short - term gains in the middle of a recession stays a mystery.
I should also hit on, briefly, the fact that despite the allure of promising super-low gas prices to Americans who are smack dab in the middle of the recession, getting rid of the paltry tax we have on it would be disastrous.
The House bill's rent - seeking and tax - raising provisions in the middle of a recession all but goaded Republicans to take increasingly radical opposing positions on climate change out of sheer political opportunism, with among other consequences climate denial emerging as a central plank in the rise of the Tea Party in the summer of» 09.
After graduating from law school in the middle of a recession I went to a firm with a bankruptcy and restructuring practice and found it very interesting.
When I graduated, it was in the middle of a recession and there were very few jobs.
I too started my career in the middle of a recession.
We're in the middle of a recession that's been called «the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.»
You would think that launching a new hotel concept in the middle of a recession, using a brand not well - known in Canada, would be a risk that most real estate investors would avoid.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z