Sentences with phrase «most economic history»

The book that I am reviewing tonight is different because unlike most economic history books, it is mainly empirical rather than mainly anecdotal.

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The US entered the Great Depression — one of history's great financial calamities — in the late 1920s, and the country spent most of the 1930s mired in a debilitating economic malaise.

As I begin another chapter in my life, I leave feeling fulfilled with what we have accomplished as a government and a country during one of the most challenging economic periods in our country's history.

Dr. Michael Hudson joins Double Down to talk about the economic reality behind the Trump voter and about whether or not, as it is claimed, Hillary Clinton is the «most progressive» candidate in Democratic history.

Unlike past episodes in recent history, the crisis began in the world's most sophisticated financial systems, causing widespread economic devastation.

This seems very counterintuitive at first, even if the history behind it is quite abundant, and very few economists seem aware of the problem (which is why most economic forecasts mistakenly focus on the pace with which reforms are likely to be implemented, and are always disappointed), but in fact the reasons are not so hard to understand.

Bernanke has led the institution through one of the most perilous times in economic history, and Obama acknowledged that he has «stayed a lot longer than he wanted or he was supposed to.»

Vince was previously with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, where he led MEDC's in state business development initiatives including the Pure Michigan Business Connect program, the most successful business connection program in Michigan history.

The gap between dismal productivity and the most productive economic environment in U.S. history is only about 2.5 % annually.

With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of history.

It is wishful thinking to imagine that the most extreme economic, debt and investment bubble in history was corrected by a mild economic downturn, a market decline that leaves stocks at 21 times peak earnings (higher than at the 1929 and 1987 peaks), and just a few large - scale defaults from a corporate debt position which continues to claim a record share of operating earnings to finance.

I think most investors could benefit from the book, mainly because I believe that economic history is valuable.

Most investors don't benefit from an understanding of economic history, which gives a broader skill set for analyzing current problems.

The short version is that the most destructive war in human history created the greatest economic engine that the world has ever seen.

Sheila C. Bair served as Chairman of the FDIC from 2006 - 2011, during one of the most turbulent economic eras in history, and was among TIME magazine's 100 most influential people.

We are living in the most troubled economic times in our history.

The market is the most creative economic force in human history.

Adam Smith believed the joint - stock company — the precursor of the most successful form of economic organization in the planet's history, the modern corporation — couldn't possibly work.

Once in office, Trump appointed the most disproportionately enplaned administration in history: According to Forbes, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has a Dassault Falcon; Linda McMahon, the Small Business Administration administrator, has a Bombardier Global; Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her family maintain a fleet of 12 private jets, including a Boeing and six Gulfstreams, as well as four helicopters; Gary Cohn, the chairman of the National Economic Council, and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross each retain private - jet shares in a fractional - ownership arrangement.

Different organizations will highlight different issues: Some Jewish leaders will be most concerned with anti-Semitism, Vatican relations with Israel, and the Israeli - Palestinian conflict; others will focus on interfaith dialogue on theology and history; others will discuss social and economic policy, and the place of religion in politics and the public square.

The most impressive economic growth in U.S. history coincided with the middle - class interregnum, the post-World War II generation, when incomes were most evenly distributed.

But most educated people believe that the gains to income from capitalism's triumph have been modest, that the poor have been left behind, that the Third World has been made miserable in aid of the enrichment of the First, that population growth must be controlled, that diminishing returns on the whole has been the main force in world economic history since 1800.

Niebuhr's prophetic politics, steeped in biblical theology, Greek classics, Western history and philosophy, depth psychology, and shrewd economic analysis, was the intellectual salvation of some of the most secular of statesmen and scholars.

The principle of just intent (or «right reasons,» as Bush invoked it) has been degraded as U.S. actions have escalated from defense of Saudi Arabia and economic sanctions to a massive offensive deployment; to the initiation of history's most devastating air assault, which has severely disrupted civilian life; to the imprudent demand for unconditional surrender.

Throughout most of human history, growth in economic activity has been very low.

Currently the most influential version, of course, is associated with movements shaped by liberation theologies: We come to understand God as we are a part of a community that is united by a common history of oppression and struggles for liberation by radically changing the arrangements of economic and social power that have made the oppression systemic in our society.

Over the last 30 years we have seen an ever - increasing concentration in the Australian supermarket sector, where the market share of our two largest retailers has increased from around 30 per cent of the market to where it stands today at around 80 per cent, leaving Australia with one of the most concentrated markets in world economic history outside that of former Eastern Bloc countries.

The global financial and economic crisis of 2008 was the second most devastating in the long history of capitalism.

Despite seeing the most fruitful period of economic development in recent history, many residents and areas in the City of Buffalo continue to struggle with poverty.

The $ 41 billion Housing New York: A Five - Borough, Ten - Year Plan is the most expansive and ambitious affordable housing agenda of its kind in the nation's history, and Mayor de Blasio pledged it would reach New Yorkers ranging from those with very low incomes at the bottom of the economic ladder, all the way to those in the middle class facing ever - rising rents in their neighborhoods.

In his address, Scott - Childress called the resolution «one of the most important items in our recent history» and linked its passage to the economic growth of the city.

[NYDN] • The Sun pooh - poohed the idea that our economic situation was worth «Paterson's panic»: «It sounded as if New York was in the midst of a Great Depression rather than a mere slowdown in what is, after all, one of the most prosperous states in one of the most prosperous economies in the history of the world.»

In U.S. history, the two most notable efforts to develop religious communities that served much of the role of the welfare state to its members that most developed countries provided through government to its citizens, have been the Roman Catholic Church, which has developed a large parallel education and health care system, and the Church of the Latter Day Saints, which uses tithes to finance a wide variety of services and economic supports for members of the Mormon community.

Leonard's most striking message was that the party he leads exists not just to «secure a fairer distribution of wealth» from the status quo but «to fundamentally change the existing economic system» via «the biggest programme of social and economic reform in the history of the Scottish parliament».

With a history in the economic development field, including a stint in Democratic Mayor Stephanie Miner's administration, he's raised the most of all candidates in the four - way race.

Under his leadership, said the governor, the region has seen the most direct investment in the state's history, some $ 25 billion, including nearly a third of a billion to the North Country through the regional economic development council program.

It is extremely difficult trying to balance a state budget at a time when the country as a whole is going through some of its most difficult economic hurdles in recent history.

However, the relative significance of farming has dropped steadily since the beginning of industrialization, and in 2006 — for the first time in history — the services sector overtook agriculture as the economic sector employing the most people worldwide.

Most of the ground covered should be familiar to history buffs: Hitler's failed efforts to become a great artist, his frustration at watching his adopted country fall apart at the seams during World War I, his resolve to put Germany back on its feet by exploiting the nation's horrendous postwar economic woes and its ingrained anti-Semitism, his 1923 arrest, the publication of Hitler's virulent screed + Mein Kampf, the growing popularity of National Socialism, and the fatal error made by senile German chancellor Von Hindbenburg (Peter O'Toole) to «neutralize» Hitler by giving him a relatively unimportant political post in 1933.

Findings have revealed that some of the most important causes of the Greek economic crisis (among others) were: the country's long history of budget deficits (particularly since 1973), the extensive dimensions of tax evasion, bribery, political corruption, falsified data and political interfering in the country's deficit and debt statistics (European Commission, 2010).

It almost feels like a sin to take delivery of a shiny new Aston Martin DB9 in the midst of one of the worst economic disasters in the history of the country, but it seems even more ludicrous to turn down time behind the wheel of one of the most gorgeous cars on the road, so we spent a weekend cruis

It's true there have been times of great economic hardship during the industry's history, but nothing as widespread as this most recent economic downturn.

You can credit the shift to baby boomers who have lived through some of the most prosperous economic times in history.

BESIDES SHOWERING RICHES ON THE AVERAGE man in the Street and fueling perhaps the most satisfying economic expansion in history - a boom without tears - this greatest of all bull markets has completely reformulated truisms that investors have lived - and sometimes died - by, ever since the Buttonwood Tree was a spindly sapling.

As discussed in our post discussing the history of whole life insurance, whole life has stood the test of time and offered consistent returns and even continuing whole life insurance dividends through the most difficult economic environments, such as the Great Depression.

His economic and social reforms through his New Deal program were some of the most monumental in the history of the United States, affording citizens new consumer and welfare protections.

This was one of the most trying economic periods in our history.

I think most investors could benefit from the book, mainly because I believe that economic history is valuable.

Most investors don't benefit from an understanding of economic history, which gives a broader skill set for analyzing current problems.

The most reliable stocks to invest in have a history of success and dividends that have increased over time The most reliable stocks to invest in pay sustainable dividends that have been maintained or raised during economic or stock - market downturns.