Sentences with phrase «of free economies»

As a college student at North Carolina State University in 2006, Travis Fisher was enrolled in the school's program on Economic, Legal, and Political Foundations of Free Economies.

It is just one type of free economy and it does lend itself to the concentration of wealth and power into the hands of a select few.

It is surely no accident that renewed Catholic attention to the priesthood of the laity has in our century been followed by an unprecedented Catholic endorsement of the free economy.

The published benefits for Platinum are marginal compared to Gold, with the exception of free Economy Comfort on KLM and some Delta flights, but if you actually fly Air France / KLM, the crew will take remarkable care of you.

Well, as long as we have the kind of free economy that we've enjoyed since 2001, we will continue to be able to sustain this growth.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, May 1 - The S&P 500 edged higher on Tuesday after comments from a Trump administration official on trade with China and the Mexican economy minister on the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement provided cause for optimism.

Here are five cities that look particularly welcoming, based on the fastest - growing sectors of their economies and the cultural amenities they offer to a veteran professional who's looking forward to some free time.

Consider: a $ 2 - trillion economy; relatively rich households that don't mind shopping on credit; rule of law; «free» health care; and low corporate taxes.

Poloz said several forces were restraining Canada's economy, including new mortgage rules, uncertainty about U.S. trade policy and the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and a range of competitiveness challenges.

The London - based National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a non-partisan think - tank, said in May that the economy of a European Union — free U.K. could be as much as 3.2 % smaller by 2030.

The growth council reckons Canada would be better placed to play such a role, given its nearly completed free - trade agreement with the EU; ports on both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; a multi-ethnic entrepreneurial class; and preferential access to the world's largest economy (Trump willing, of course).

Arrow and Debreu were able to show the existence of an equilibrium between supply and demand in a free, competitive economy — but they also made clear that this could only exist if a given set of assumptions about the economy and consumer behavior were true.

It's the exact opposite of free trade and of the traditional economy.

«Zeihan examines how the hard rules of geography are eroding the American commitment to free trade; how much of the planet is aging into a mass retirement that will enervate markets and capital supplies; and how, against all odds, it is the ever - ravenous American economy that — alone among the developed nations — is rapidly approaching energy independence.»

Otherwise ardent free market capitalists, they remain strangely convinced that China's socialist brain trust is capable of correctly pulling all the levers of its massive economy to keep it on a path to prosperity.

«We have to recover the public sector, we have to scare the free market out of our pensions, education, health care, and culture, and let the cooperative social sector come in and combat the casino economy of capitalism and financial speculation.»

Getting rich in a free market economy is simply a matter of trading solutions for money.

«The official Opposition will call on the ethics commissioner to investigate a possible conflict of interest... after a document released to the media indicated Air Canada's CEO and executive vice-president Duncan Dee apparently upgraded Raitt's flight from economy to business class — almost a $ 550 value — for free on Sept. 25....

As it turns out, Pepsi Cola originally distributed Stolichnaya in the U.S. in the 1970s as part of a barter agreement with the Soviet Union, which lacked a free market economy at the time.

So the impact on our economy is going to be that journey and how pain - free we can make that and mitigate some of the disruptions around what happens.»

There's no new theme to it, just more riffs on the old one of a self - reinforcing spiral of slower growth in China crushing the economies of its raw material suppliers, while an appreciating dollar makes it ever harder for emerging market companies and governments to repay the debts they gleefully took on when the Federal Reserve was giving away dollars for free.

Finally, it means recognizing that the freer movement of people strengthens families, communities, and economies increasingly dependent on North American production.

The legal tussle may well divide the on - demand economy into two camps: the fundamentally sound companies — the ones that can figure out how to compete on any sort of playing field, as long as it's level, because they're selling a real innovation — and the companies that exist only because the current haze of legal and regulatory uncertainty paired with free - flowing venture capital has permitted them to flourish.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland arrived in Mexico City to close out the second round of talks to modernize the North American Free trade agreement on Tuesday along with Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo.

Eduardo Guardia, Brazil's finance minister, told CNBC that the country wants to open up its economy and therefore it is a supporter of global free trade.

«Free - trade agreements have become a scapegoat for a lot of other forces changing the economy,» says Cathleen Cimino - Isaacs, a research fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

«Given the size of its economy, population, and given its political clout, Nigeria's stance towards the African Continental Free Trade Area is key,» Imad Mesdoua, senior consultant for Africa at Control Risks, a global risk consultancy with offices in Lagos, told CNBC via email.

LaRocco is the author of «Opportunity Knocking» (Agate Publishing 2014), «Dynasties of the Sea: The Ships and Entrepreneurs Who Ushered in the Era of Free Trade» (Marine Money 2012) and «Thriving in the New Economy: Lessons from Today's Top Business Minds» (Wiley 2010).

If you bought a regular economy ticket, sometimes the airline, for the sake of an on - time departure, will allow volunteers to check their full - size carry - on bags, free of charge.

Still, Donohue insisted that, «Given the unprecedented challenges facing our economy, the Campaign for Free Enterprise is one of the most important and necessary initiatives in the Chamber's nearly 100 - year history.»

Since the economy went into free fall, prompting companies around the world to slash employees in a desperate bid to cut costs, the expectations of those who managed to hang onto their jobs has shot through the roof.

In addition to being a crucial part of Bellhops» mission of reducing the cost and pain of small - scale moving, he contends that a hassle - free payment process is critical to the success of any sharing - economy operation.

«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.

But Ryan disagreed, saying: «Our economy and our national security are strengthened by fostering free trade with our allies and promoting the rule of law.»

His remarks were instead a mashup of his campaign stump speech greatest hits, talking about criminal justice reform, a «broken economy,» free tuition at public colleges, the minimum wage and campaign finance reform.

But both groups share the same ultimate vision: to create the post-animal economy — a world free of consumer sacrifice, guilt, and compromise.

Freeing up much needed seed capital to make the economy grow instead of making nonproductive investments is the key to prosperity.

And — he said, «One of the reasons we were in favor of free trade was we knew the government couldn't manage an economy that had free trade.

In 1991, you went to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and you met people who truly believed that the American rule of law, independent judiciary, free market economy, and political system were to be admired.

«Bankism is the idea that big banks are in control of the economy and not the free markets, trade, product development or business,» says Gerald Celente, founder and director of TRI, a Kingston, N.Y., company that consults with governments and businesses.

The Internet has facilitated a number of services which are collectively known as the sharing economy, whereby assets or services are shared between private individuals, either for free or for a fee.

But the big prize for Canada, say government officials, is in the deal's potential and the sheer size and wealth of the European market — 500 million people and an economy approaching $ 17 trillion — that will now be open to Canadian manufacturers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers and even professionals, such as engineers, under improved conditions and mostly duty - free.

The focus of classical value and price theory was to free economies from economic rent, defined as unearned income simply resulting from privilege: absentee land rent, mineral and natural resource rent, monopoly rent, and financial interest.

But most economists believe such extraordinary intervention was necessary, particularly after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the nation's fourth largest investment bank, put the stock market in veritable free fall and took the U.S. economy along with it.

Michael Hudson: The missing item in today's economic reforms is what classical economics focused on, from the French Physiocrats through Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill to Marx and his contemporaries: freeing industrial economies from the rentier carry - overs of European feudalism.

Consider as a primer what freer trade accomplishes: In the post-war era, and especially with the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 — and with it the notion that governments could centrally direct an economy — a growing number of economies rejoined the normal human preference and practice of free enterprise.

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The pitfalls of this financial dynamic were not apparent in the early years after World War II, largely because economies emerged with their private sectors free of debt.

This study estimates the likely impact of terminating the North American Free Trade Agreement on the U.S. Economy, exports and jobs.

That freed up workers to move into job opportunities opening up elsewhere in the economy, while increasing the productivity and incomes of those who remained (Charts 4a and b).