So Philip, when you previously argued for ultra low interest rates because interest was the big problem caused by debt, were you thinking economies could be maintained without
much growth if interest were under control and everything would stay in balance over long period of time?
Not exact matches
«Employees are
much more likely to work hard
if they understand how their individual efforts affect overall revenue
growth, profits, and other measures of success.
If you're serious about your future success and the
growth of your business, you have to focus just as
much on service as on sales.
Exactly how
much global
growth is slowing —
if at all — is hotly debated, but the bears have the upper hand for the moment.
Fortune ran numbers to calculate how
much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade,
if it lowered the rate of
growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below
growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).
It's got all this stuff in the news, with ghost cities and real estate markets crashing, but when we think about it,
if the U.S. economy is forecast to grow somewhere between 2.75 % and 3 % for 2015, and China is growing at 6.5 % or 7 %, we're still looking at essentially twice the U.S. [
growth rate] on a
much bigger base than 10 years ago,» she says.
In January the International Monetary Fund said China's economic
growth would top 6.6 percent in 2018, but it could now drop by as
much as 0.5 percent
if these tariffs are imposed — and it could slow even further
if a global trade war truly heats up.
Fed officials have already warned that the economy doesn't need stimulus per se as
much as it needs
growth - enhancing structural reforms, so there is a risk is that it will tighten monetary policy aggressively
if Trump loosens it aggressively.
The White House has yet to spell out how
much of a hole the tax cuts could create in the federal budget, maintaining that the resulting economic
growth would reduce —
if not eliminate — the risk of a soaring deficit.
Some investors and analysts believe, based on the revenue
growth and earnings power of that division, that
if AWS was a standalone business it would be worth as
much as $ 30 billion.
«Growing companies have got to look for every possible way to squeeze dollars out of cash flow,» emphasizes Jaskol, «especially
if they need to fund
growth without
much help from bankers.»
«We believe strongly that we should back our winners with as
much capital as we have available
if they are experiencing explosive
growth in to huge markets with strong management teams that have a proven track record of success,» explains Foundation partner and AdRoll board member Charles Moldow.
That is, Uber's propensity for risk has caused it to target a rate of
growth much faster than what would be sustainable
if it were to seek profitability in the short run (and, arguably, in the long run), and has also led both to oversights and deliberate missteps in areas that have led to the controversies that plague it today.
«I looked around, did some reading, and the men's accessories market seemed like the obvious place to invest because there has just been so
much of
growth,» says Barclay, joking, «I remember when
if you wore a pink shirt, everyone assumed you were gay.»
and a generally crummy outlook for global
growth — it's as
if the collective weight of all that negative news finally became too
much.
If we have a lost decade like the 2000 — 2010 period it will be very hard to achieve that rate of
growth... savings along won't create that
much growth.
yields will hit the highs on close end of the day... equity markets setting up to be slammed tomorrow maybe but today they have run over weak shorts in the face of rates... the federal reserve see's this and again will wonder
if they are behind on hikes, strong data, major expansion in credit, lack of wage
growth rising bond yields and ballooning debt... rates will go
much higher and equities will have revelations as to what that means for valuations
But mostly
if you raise $ 15 — 20 million and so do 4 — 5 of your competitors there is that
much more incentive for «bad behavior,» which is where the «winner - take - all» mentality forces
growth over margins.
If, as I have indicated, the U.S.
growth and inflation outlooks have not changed notably, then why have expectations about U.S. monetary policy shifted so
much?
Now, exactly how
much global
growth is really slowing
if it «s slowing at all, it «s very hotly debated.
If you're a company that's committed to serious
growth, a sales development function is pretty
much table stakes.
Check Point could be left behind
if it focuses too
much on bottom - line
growth instead of selling its services.
We suspect that
much of the projected
growth benefit from corporate tax reform comes from enacting expensing of equipment, which reduces the entity - level effective tax rate to zero on equity - financed investment and makes it negative
if financed in part with debt.
If the global economy were to recover much more quickly than most of us expect, and, much more importantly, if Beijing were to initiate a far more aggressive program of privatization and wealth transfer than I think politically possible, perhaps transferring in the first few years the equivalent of as much as 2 - 5 % of GDP, the surge in household income could unleash much stronger consumption growth than we have seen in the pas
If the global economy were to recover
much more quickly than most of us expect, and,
much more importantly,
if Beijing were to initiate a far more aggressive program of privatization and wealth transfer than I think politically possible, perhaps transferring in the first few years the equivalent of as much as 2 - 5 % of GDP, the surge in household income could unleash much stronger consumption growth than we have seen in the pas
if Beijing were to initiate a far more aggressive program of privatization and wealth transfer than I think politically possible, perhaps transferring in the first few years the equivalent of as
much as 2 - 5 % of GDP, the surge in household income could unleash
much stronger consumption
growth than we have seen in the past.
«Even
if you have another two or three years of pretty good
growth, how
much are the averages really going to move up?»
This means that in China,
if you can figure out how the
growth model works and how the model generates imbalances and debt, you can pretty
much figure out logically, albeit fairly broadly, the various paths that the country must follow in order the reverse the imbalances.
The astonishing ability of the China bulls, both foreign and Chinese, to celebrate every unexpected decline in
growth and every new surge in debt as
if they somehow justified nearly a decade's worth of denials of the urgency of China's rebalancing has done so
much damage to China that the sooner Beijing's leaders finally turn against the bulls, as I believe they might finally have done, the better for the Chinese people and the Chinese economy.
At any rate as far as I can understand, most analysts claim that
if growth in China fell
much below 6 %, we would be likely to suffer the following:
However,
growth could be
much lower
if either of the two critical policy assumptions is not satisfied.»
How
much,
if any,
growth is left in iPhone sales?
If the authorities are willing to engage in loss - making activities to achieve the GDP
growth target, there are two relevant characteristics of an economy like China's that change the nature of the GDP measure: first, economic activity is
much less affected by hard - budget constraints than it is in most other economies; and second, bad debt is
much less likely to be written down.
There is, in other words, actually quite a lot that we know and understand about the model, even
if many of us seem to have forgotten
much of it — including its typical weaknesses, one of the most obvious of which is the tendency for over-investment in the late stages of the miracle -
growth period leading to an unsustainable increase in debt.
If GDP
growth levels come in
much below 6 or 7 %, there is a chance that debt
growth is not excessive.
In that case GDP
growth will drop sharply in line with the drop in credit
growth, but
if Beijing simultaneously implements wealth redistribution policies from local governments to households, ordinary China won't feel the pain because the steep drop in GDP
growth will be accompanied by a
much smaller drop in household income
growth.
If these inflows however are counterbalanced by rising private inflows from Chinese businesses and wealthy individuals taking money out of China, either because of weaker domestic
growth prospects of because of rising nervousness and uncertainty, asset prices might not fall as
much as we would have expected, but Australia will be caught in a vice a little like that of, for example, Spain, in which export weakness can not be partially counterbalanced by a weaker currency.
But
if that doesn't lead to a higher investment rate and productivity
growth, we could expect
growth to roll over and lead to what potentially could be a recession, something I haven't seen discussed as
much before,» said Matt Toms, chief investment officer for Voya Investment Management.
Listen, and you go back years and think about
if you got this sort of
growth, this sort of wage acceleration, that the rate of inflation would be
much higher.
If he could have redone things, he admits, he would've invested
much earlier in better products and tried to manage
growth expectations more effectively.
Caveats:
If markets and investors overreact, financial conditions could tighten too
much and choke economic
growth.
If you back out currency impacts, year - over-year drug revenue growth drops to 15.1 % in the quarter, and if you remove the sales associated with Actelion's drugs, then J&J's biopharma sales growth falls to a much tamer 4.3
If you back out currency impacts, year - over-year drug revenue
growth drops to 15.1 % in the quarter, and
if you remove the sales associated with Actelion's drugs, then J&J's biopharma sales growth falls to a much tamer 4.3
if you remove the sales associated with Actelion's drugs, then J&J's biopharma sales
growth falls to a
much tamer 4.3 %.
Iliad investors, who don't get
much of a dividend, may get worried
if growth slows.
If you are eager to buy a franchise and have dreams of expanding and owning multiple establishments, it is important to find out how much room there is for growth from the franchise company, if there are plans for expansion into new territories, and how long it takes a franchisor to get to the point where opening another franchise becomes a viable optio
If you are eager to buy a franchise and have dreams of expanding and owning multiple establishments, it is important to find out how
much room there is for
growth from the franchise company,
if there are plans for expansion into new territories, and how long it takes a franchisor to get to the point where opening another franchise becomes a viable optio
if there are plans for expansion into new territories, and how long it takes a franchisor to get to the point where opening another franchise becomes a viable option.
Otherwise stated,
if Japan can not implement the 2017 tax hike with confidence, having achieved a robust few quarters of
growth, with a tighter job market and reflation well along its way, the fiscal consequences look
much,
much worse.
And
if you can buy some business that earns high returns on equity and has even got mild
growth prospects, you know, at
much lower multiple earnings, you are going to do better than buying ten - year bonds at 2.30 or 30 - year bonds at three, or something of the sort.»
I have enough passive income to give me peace of mind that
if I lose my job my world won't get thrown upside down; I feel like I don't want
much more than that runtil I retire or slow down at work, and I should be more
growth focused and less income focused.
You can always take out more than the RMD amount
if you need to; however, it's usually advisable to leave the assets you don't immediately need in the Inherited IRA, to take advantage of as
much tax - deferred
growth as possible.
If this acquisition is approved, I think CVS will be a benefit in the long - term as this is a
much - needed move to fend off competition in the space and restore
growth within the company.
Consequently, even
if the GDP
growth figures reported by China's government bore some resemblance to reality (they don't), the reported
growth wouldn't be a reason to be optimistic because so
much of it is associated with wasteful spending.
One saving grace for the United States:
If the market swings really do undermine U.S.
growth, then the Fed, as Bernanke said repeatedly in his news conference, will move that
much more gingerly in removing its help for the economy.
After all, a dollar or two difference here and there in share price, usually does not make
much difference in your long term returns especially
if your focus is primarily passive income
growth.