From onshore to offshore — know when to make the leap There is a lot
of economic doom and gloom in SA (and in the...
The Obama Administration's recent announcement that it plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal - fired power plants evoked cries of protest and warnings
of economic doom from the political right, and praise from the center and the left.
I find the warnings
of economic doom and gloom one hears from the (predominantly AGW - contrarian) naysayers rather overblown and unbalanced; yet I have to admit that I really am not very well - informed either way.
Euromonitor International Head of Travel and Tourism Research Caroline Bremner said: «Against a backdrop
of economic doom and gloom, mystery trips help put the fun back into travel and also allow travel operators to provide greater levels of customisation.»
Of course, alarmist predictions
of economic doom are two - a-penny.
Not exact matches
China's growth is on track, but the reports are always tempered by warnings
of doom, or suspect
economic figures.
While no one outside
of the usual
doom and gloom crowd is saying a downturn is imminent, many
economic indicators do seem to suggest that the
economic recovery could be on its last legs.
But states at the bottom
of the ladder aren't
doomed to weak growth and a lack
of economic vitality.
Only through a fundamental shift to an environmental theology
of «earthism» and a rejection
of global
economic integration in favor
of more self - sufficient local economies can we avert this
doom.
Of course the likelihood of Brexit is that it won't all be doom and gloom or milk and honey, it'll be somewhere in between, but how far it lies from these extremes could be crucial to economic wellbein
Of course the likelihood
of Brexit is that it won't all be doom and gloom or milk and honey, it'll be somewhere in between, but how far it lies from these extremes could be crucial to economic wellbein
of Brexit is that it won't all be
doom and gloom or milk and honey, it'll be somewhere in between, but how far it lies from these extremes could be crucial to
economic wellbeing.
All these culminated in the present
economic situation and as a matter
of fact if Nigeria fails once again to revive its economy, certainly we are
doomed.
I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands
of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole
economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion
of its senate by thugs and seizure
of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't
doomed.
When Bill de Blasio was running for mayor on a starkly liberal platform in 2013, some
of New York's business leaders feared the city's
economic well - being was
doomed.
If these facts are true — and they are (see, for example, economist Max Roser's ourworldindata.org and the data at humanprogress.org aggregated from the World Bank, the United Nations, the Organization for
Economic Co-operation and Development, and Eurostat)-- then why the
doom and gloom heaped on us by politicians and pundits on both sides
of the political aisle?
-- but $ upercapitalist seems more
doomed than most, as an on - the - cheap attempt to update the moral drama
of Wall Street for the current
economic climate.
Proponents
of the current school reform agenda claim that because the US ranks at the middle
of the pack on international tests, that somehow proves that US students are not prepared for the world or that they will be less economically competitive and cause
economic doom for the country.
Snerdaperds: «Neon Brood is just another example
of the huge dumpster fire that is Steam, produced by a guy who just reskinned
doom, slapping a new paintjob over the top
of it, selling the game again and again on Steam... Steam can't be bothered to fix this problem because there's no
economic benefit to them stepping away from that hundred dollars per game being published, and as long as these devs make more money than it cost for them to put the game on Steam, they're gonna keep doing it.»
In the case
of Doomocracy, an immersive installation and performance in the form
of a house
of political horrors conceived by Mexico City — based artist Pedro Reyes,
doom is employed as part parable and part prophesy — a way to evoke certain political, social, and
economic realities as well as to project a potential future to come.
Radio Interview: «A growing group
of activists, ecologists, authors and scientists are saying only a serious
economic crash could save us from climate
doom.»
The «growing realization
of late» that without an
economic substitute for fossil fuels as an energy source, greenhouse gas control is
doomed is a no brainer moment.
When one examines all the gloom and
doom economic forecasts from those
of certain political persuasion, it becomes clear who the «alarmists» are.
Today's citizen - technologists possess a concrete common - sense appreciation
of the interlocking
economic, scientific, and moral reasons why Big Carbon is
doomed.
Now, I'm not sure what the Times» shift in thinking is with the article — and after more than a decade
of consistent gloom - and -
doom reporting and editorializing on global warming, I would imagine that the Green - leaning newspaper does not intend to rethink its position on the scare — but it's going to take more than the mere
economic exploitation
of a shrinking polar ice cap to establish human activity as the cause
of the melting.
But in a nutshell, it's that this Neo-Malthusian pessimism — as warped and wrongheaded today as it was in the era
of doom - monger Thomas Malthus (1766 to 1834)-- is based on fundamental misconceptions about the ingenuity
of the human species and about the nature
of economic growth.
Green central planning like
economic planning
of failed socialist regimes gone by is
doomed for failure.
You might disagree with me, fair enough, but either the world is
doomed to AGW disaster (because China and India etc are nt going away) or we are set to follow a course
of economic disaster while once again ignoring the real and present human suffering around the third world.
After weeks
of economic cut
doom and gloom (you can see our report on how the Chancellorâ $ ™ s cuts will affect...
After weeks
of economic cut
doom and gloom (you can see our report on how the Chancellorâ $ ™ s cuts will affect graduates here) the most current graduate forecast isnâ $ ™ t (surprise, surprise) looking any brighter.
Despite the
doom and gloom
of the media, the overall
economic outlook for the country and real estate market seems relatively positive, according to a recent Urban Land Institute webinar.
In these days
of hard
economic times, we hear mostly stories
of «gloom and
doom.»
This «Great Delay,» instead
of the forbearance
of impending
doom, may actually be a sign
of prudent
economic decision making from a generation coming
of age during turbulent
economic times.