Sentences with phrase «not slow economic growth»

If Taylor is correct, then low short - term interest rates have not contributed to the economic expansion and raising them will not slow economic growth.

Wealthier Democrats («limousine liberals») have the luxury of being able to care passionately about solving the problem, whether or not it slows economic growth rates by a fraction.

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The Canadian policy statement also reiterated that the central bank expects economic growth has slowed in the fourth quarter, and that the economy won't regain altitude until sometime in 2016.

Also, while consumer debt is falling and corporate debt is not yet at crisis levels, keep in mind that government debt has skyrocketed — ironically, as a response to slow growth in the global economic system.

«There's no reason to think that the pace of economic growth today is excessive and needs to be slowed because of incipient inflation,» Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, said in calling on the Fed not economic growth today is excessive and needs to be slowed because of incipient inflation,» Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, said in calling on the Fed not Economic Policy Institute, said in calling on the Fed not to hike.

With gas prices rising and growth slowing, the general economic climate seems to reflect what our data has said all along — any recovery has not yet created action.

If oil prices do not escalate, the government's budget outlook will deteriorate in the billions of dollars, through a combination of slow economic growth and lower than anticipated inflation.

Federal spending cuts scheduled to begin next week would slow economic growth in the next year, though not nearly as much as going over the fiscal cliff might have, economists say.

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.

«We need to be persistent and patient and prudent, because we're not there yet,» Draghi said, referring to the fact that EU inflation and wage growth have been disappointingly slow, despite the bloc's economic recovery since the financial crisis.

«A lot of the ingredients that drive retail revenue... aren't there,» he said pointing to slow U.S. economic growth, low inflation and population growth.

It's not easy for income - seeking investors to find attractive yield in today's slow growth economic environment.

So, it's not surprising that amid slowing economic growth, central banks are scooping out even more stimulus on top of their years of quantitative easing (QE) programs and aggressive rate cuts.

Given that economic growth is languid at best and is likely slowing, the divergence between the stock market and economic reality can not be sustained.

In fact I suspect the reason credit growth in the past year or two has not slowed nearly as sharply as it should, or as sharply as required by the economic analysis implicit in the Third Plenum reform proposals, is precisely because of the expected impact of meaningful credit constraint on GDP growth.

Of course it matters to anyone who wants to understand the economic cost of the adjustment, but arguments about whether the reported data are overstated, and by how much, have become part of the bull vs bear debate about whether Chinese growth is merely slowing temporarily, and not as part of a major economic reversal of the growth model.

Economic growth has been slowing since 2010 and is not likely to exceed 1.6 per cent this year.

Indications of slowing growth are not yet strong enough to cause the European Central Bank to revise its timetable for winding down economic stimulus.

While, it's not clear whether the growth and deficit targets are achievable, it is clear that keeping the growth target the same as last year means the government is not interested in risking slower growth by advancing economic reforms more rapidly.

As a sidenote, statistically, periods of slower economic growth do tend to be correlated with higher, not lower, inflation (a result that follows from the «monetary exchange equation»).

«Amid slowing economic growth we must ensure that the state is not taking up unreasonably large role in the economy,» he said.

And if the economy is not entering a recession, then most certainly it is entering an extended period of slow economic growth, as a result of both external and internal economic developments.

While the economy is growing, the bad debt won't be so apparent, but it certainly will be when the economic growth slows.

Despite this, many observers expected tapering to start in September 2013, and the fact it didn't was blamed on weak economic data and the fear of growth being slowed by the oncoming government shutdown and debt ceiling discussion.

First, if growth did not recover and surprise on the upside (in which case high asset prices would be justified), eventually slow growth would dominate the levitational effects of liquidity and force asset prices lower, in line with weaker economic fundamentals.

Japan's Economic Growth Slows as Business Spending Slumps — GDP misses estimates and now there is even more evidence that the Abeonomics plan is not what it was cracked up to be.

At their most recent meeting, most members of the Fed's policy - making committee agreed that slow growth was not reason enough to expand the Fed's economic aid program.

However the Department of Finance interprets the lower deficit outcome for 2010 - 11, it would not be possible to offset the impact of slower economic growth now expected for this year and 2012, by the Bank of Canada, the IMF, the OECD and all private forecasters.

Even if China's debt and real estate bubbles don't pop, resulting in a global recession, slowing economic growth from China could have a detrimental effect on long - term energy prices and result in prolonged weakness in the entire energy sector, including oil services suppliers such as U.S. Silica.

While geopolitical uncertainty always has potential to shake economic confidence, Rhea Thomas, an economist with Wilmington Trust Co., said she did not think it would be enough to slow down global growth.

They also say that no international control regime will be permitted to slow their economic growth away from poverty, certainly not as long as their per capita emissions remain a fraction of the West's, especially that of the United States.

«Years of decreasing, stagnant or slow economic growth have led local governments to cut vital services and tap their rainy day funds to balance budgets, a practice that is not sustainable in the long term,» the comptroller said.

«Our economy is in solid position, but it won't last forever, as economic and job growth slow in the years to come,» said Stringer.

«National economic growth slowed in 2016 and New York is not immune,» Morris Peters, a Budget Division spokesman said, «but under this administration unemployment is down in every region of the state, median household income growth is outpacing the nation as a whole, taxes are down for every New Yorker, and upstate is benefiting from the largest economic development investment in history.»

A crucial mechanism at work is that the high R&D subsidy allows for a quicker transition to clean energy while not slowing down economic growth, as a carbon tax alone would.

«Social and economic equality empowers societies to engage in sustainable pathways, which includes, by the way, not only the sustainable use of natural resources but also slowing down population growth, to actively diminish the human footprint on the environment.»

So, if the market sentiment decides it doesn't like a few factors, such as a decision to follow a divergent monetary policy, continued slow global economic growth, a world - wide aging population, and the swearing in of Donald Trump as the next American President, we could be see a rise in bond rates, which will absolutely start to increase fixed - rate mortgage rates.

At their most recent meeting, most members of the Fed's policy - making committee agreed that slow growth was not reason enough to expand the Fed's economic aid program.

Describes a business cycle phase when economic growth slows sharply but does not turn negative, while inflation falls or remains low.

Bill Gross seems to think so, he is calling for economic growth and yields to remain slow and low, not returning to the levels seen prior to 2008.

Also, while consumer debt is falling and corporate debt is not yet at crisis levels, keep in mind that government debt has skyrocketed — ironically, as a response to slow growth in the global economic system.

I've been away for the past couple of months, but even if I hadn't been there wasn't much to write about; the equity markets have continued their slow climb despite lackluster US economic growth.

While a few years of outsized growth might sound nice after the years of slow expansion we've experienced, the economic hangover that might follow wouldn't be pleasant at all.

Seth Borenstein of The Associated Press has written a summary of the carbon dioxide findings, with some input from experts who express surprise that a slowing of economic growth in some places hasn't blunted the growth in CO2 output.

When they turn their attention to population, such authors are not concerned primarily by the fact that rapid population growth may slow economic progress in the third world, or that it may be inimicable to the interests of women, or even that it may give rise to environmental costs that are external to households» decisionmaking or may impede virtuous institutional responses to scarcity.

Maybe it's got something to do with the fact that economic growth across CQ has slowed since ahem MOG changes and massive cuts to investment in the region... hence demand has not grown as anticipated.

Peter, nice idea, BUT, it ain't going to happen... Economic policy is such that economies world wide are deliberately held to slower growth than what you are suggesting.

That general opinion may be summed up as follows: Restricting emissions would slow economic growth — but not by much.

China's slowing economic growth has played a key role in these figures as well, though, and with India and several other developing economies set to grow substantially over the next several years, it's not clear how long we can expect this «decoupling» trend to continue.

Not only will more home construction lead to a slower pace of rate hikes, it will also lead to faster economic growth.