Sentences with phrase «nearing a decade of»

If you start the clock in 2007, we are nearing a decade of talking about the U.S. economy as either being on the verge of disaster, in the throes of the worst recession since the Great Depression, or stuck in an endless and disappointing recovery.

In my near decade of watching Pistons basketball I've seen one winning season.

I've had near a decade of pain already so 2 more years is NOTHING in the bigger picture.

After a near decade of following the spread of Transhumanism, I finally began a PhD project to find out some...

Thanks to the Fed, a near decade of zero - interest rate policies (ZIRP) and three rounds of Quantitative Easing (which totaled over $ 3.8 trillion in printed money)-- the consumers became hooked on cheap auto loan financings...

Jacob's near decade of programming with the Spoleto Festival involved ambitious project commissions with countless artists (including David Hammons, Christian Boltanski, J. Morgan Puett, and Lorna Simpson) in addition to curatorial collaborations including a recurring project with South African curator Tumelo Mosaka.

We continue to build a near decade of success and unmatched grow

Not exact matches

DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Michigan regulators on Friday cleared DTE Energy's request to build a near - $ 1 billion natural gas power plant, the first approval of such a large facility for a regulated utility in decades and a move that coincides with the retirement of coal - fired plants.

And just as the elevator's effects were amplified by the near - simultaneous introduction of other key tools and practices — from reinforced concrete to new methods of producing steel and framing buildings to modern ventilation systems — so, too, the most transformative of effects over the next decade or two are sure to be found in the confluence of new technologies and ideas.

Your legacies of deregulation, a financialized US economy and the Greenspan put have spoken for themselves by helping to cause the world's largest and most productive economy to suffer more than a decade of malaise, 10 ′ s of millions unemployed and a near collapse of the entire system.

Now, though, an improving economy and increasing emerging - market demand for new airplanes have pushed orders back to near decade highs — in 2011 Airbus received 1,419 orders for its planes — and Boeing and Airbus are trying to get through a backlog of about 4,000 aircraft apiece.

At the end of 2015, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade after they'd previously been near zero.

It's a for - profit company that talks like a non-profit, consistently declines opportunities to make tons of cash, and yet somehow has managed to disrupt an industry that for decades enjoyed near - monopoly status and double digit profit margins.

EDC is nearing the end of a review of its powers and mandate that's conducted every decade.

Outside of a few brief years a decade earlier, the band had never been anywhere near the cultural mainstream.

It was late 1997, corporate earnings had surged to heights unseen in over a decade, and the Wall Street crowd was predicting years of near - double - digit gains to come.

Overall, the percentage of Americans 18 or older who are in the labor force increased to 63 % in February, still near a four - decade low.

As a result, the yield curve flattened and by the end of December was near inversion for the first time in a decade.

The most reliable measures we identify in market cycles across history are consistent with the expectation of near zero total returns in the S&P 500 Index over the coming decade, and the likelihood that the market will fall by half over the completion of the current cycle.

Higher growth rates are not impossible, of course, but to get the arithmetic to work for me it would take some fairly implausible assumptions — mainly that Beijing engineers the transfer of 2 - 3 % of GDP every year from the state sector to the household sector — for China to achieve growth rates anywhere near 6 % for the next decade.

The company's net debt increased to about 12.5 billion euros ($ 15.6 billion) by the end of March, nearing the level reached a decade ago when former CEO Jean - Marie Messier's acquisition binge left the company close to bankruptcy.

Within a decade, a near - majority of the 145 million employed Americans will be impacted.

While I continue to believe that the dollar faces substantial risk of further erosion in its exchange value, as well as a near doubling of the CPI over the coming decade or so (both reflecting the massive increase in U.S. government liabilities in recent years), those prospects are not likely to emerge until risk - aversion about credit default materially abates.

As the U.S. military approaches two decades of persistent campaigns against terrorists and militants, there has become concern that American troops are increasingly ill - prepared to fight a more capable «near - peer» foe, such as Russia.

It has been over two decades since the popping of Japan's economic bubble and the country is still actively battling with deflationary forces that are so powerful that near - zero interest rates (zero - interest rate policy or ZIRP), repeated bouts of quantitative easing (some call it «money printing») and constant Yen - weakening currency interventions have barely made a dent.

So we'll next look at what the company has done over the last decade (a good proxy for the long haul) in terms of top - line and bottom - line growth, before comparing that to a near - term forecast for profit growth.

For decades he bought suits from the everyman outfitter nearest his office, and his biography frequently mentions (and has photographic evidence of) his favourite threadbare jumper.

BHP Billiton VP Huw McKay explains that, despite recent weakness, owing to slowing demand, and against most predictions, to date, the price of the steelmaking raw material is still up 31 %, having retreated from a surge of 52 %, after near - decade lows, in December last year.

At the annual shareholders meeting this year, Buffett explained that he thought Berkshire Hathaway's intrinsic value grew at an average annual rate of about 10 % over the last decade, but he warned that future returns would be lower if interest rates remained near generational lows.

Home construction per household a decade after the bust remains near the lowest level in 60 years of record - keeping, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

Based on the valuation measures most strongly correlated with actual subsequent total returns (and those correlations are near or above 90 %), we continue to estimate that the S&P 500 will achieve zero or negative nominal total returns over horizons of 8 years or less, and only about 2 % annually over the coming decade.

For the most part, the Justice Department leaves successful corporations alone near the end of bear markets and through 90 % -100 % of bull markets, even if it has to wait decades to do so.

Notwithstanding the slim layer of ES balances, the cash rate has been well behaved (Graph 4): since RTGS was introduced, the cash rate has tracked a steady path near its target, as it has for much of the past decade.

The ratio of income payments to exports remains near its average over the past two decades, at 17.9 per cent.

After a decade of being near zero, short - term interest rates have risen sharply in recent months.

The NAB survey of employment intentions for the quarter ahead is at its highest level in almost a decade, while the ACCI - Westpac survey is also near a decade high.

It turns out that Jeffs, 55 and serving a life - plus -20-year prison sentence, is likely to be replaced as head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) in the relative near term, even if he survives for decades to come.

Has the world of religion been rocked by the decades of near universal acceptance in the world of science of the Big Bang?

That experiment was repeated in the back - in to - nature communes of the 1960s and»70s, which were inspired in part by people like Scott and Helen Nearing who had pioneered the simple life of rural homesteading decades earlier.

The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged citizens.

But beginning in the last decades of the fifteenth century a vast expansion began, partly through attempts of minorities to bring «Christendom» to a nearer approximation to the standards seen in Christ and partly by explorations, conquests, and migrations which within the brief course of four centuries brought all the earth's surface under the control of «Christian» peoples.

Not withstanding that if it were true it would also be true that those left behind would be in for the worst near decade that the world has ever seen and then most likely committed to an eternity of torment.

In North America, through the Caribbean and North American Area Council of the Alliance, dialogue intended to establish a similar relationship of full communion between the Reformed and Lutheran churches has been ongoing for decades and now seems to be nearing completion.

For the record I do not hold Wenger in anywhere near the esteem as I do with Tony Adams and never will.Any respect I did have for this man has rapidly diminished over the last decade and the day he is out of this club can not come too soon for me.But of course he did win 35 FA Cups 49 Charity Shields blah blah blah

Gazidis has been at Arsenal for near a decade now and Gazidis 1st full season in charge seen our spending be spread over multiple possible players instead of spending on desired players.

So goodbye Wenger and thanks for the ancient history glory days but most of us, - pires and Ken, being dinosaur type exceptions on here and also the sweet, naive and ever water guzzling TY from Arsenal fan TV — prefer living in the here and now and looking forward to the near future, for we are all a long time dead, as our club has effectively been this last decade.

A few years down the line and the Arsenal squad held was nowhere near the amount of talent that it boasted just half a decade earlier.

Meanwhile, there are incredibly knowledgeable people, with decades of experience covering the game, who aren't allowed anywhere near a Hall of Fame ballot.

When we played Bama earlier in this decade they were in a completely different class and the scores were nowhere near indicative of how far apart the two programs were.

A win here would put UCF's perfect season near the very top of college football's pact two decades of underdog stories.