Sentences with phrase «of stimuli which»

In these rituals, patrons are bombarded with symbolism, rites, gestures, and a variety of stimuli which are entirely out of context with any religious experience they have heretofore known.

Out of the mass of stimuli which comes to us, only those register in our awareness which can effectively enter into the constitution of such an organism as ours.

This is materially different from actually reducing the amount of stimulus which, in the case of the United States, is still expected by most observers to begin in the second half of 2015.

Dalio says the practice has been useful for him, both for generating creative thought, and in evaluating and responding to the huge overload of stimulus which presses upon a money manager every day.

Not exact matches

The human mind relies primarily on visual stimuli to successfully interact with the world around it, which is why it's only natural for marketers to build the vast majority of their strategies around visual media platforms, relying on high definition video playback devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to broaden their reach and bring the message across.

There's biochemical research that shows the release of dopamine when we perceive novel stimuli starts to drop past the age of twenty, which makes time appear to go by more quickly.

Furthermore, it is important that we not get too distracted by the stimulus debate and work together to promote an agenda for long - term economic growth for the country, which should include reform of a tax system that has grown out of control, finalizing trade agreements, kickstart a lagging regulatory harmonization agenda and ensuring young Canadians have the skills to compete in a global market place.

On Dec. 7, the Bank of Canada endorsed negative interest rates as a viable emergency stimulus measure, a significant shift that demonstrates the extent to which monetary policy has evolved since the Great Recession.

The policy may even provide a degree of stimulus, which would come as a surprise to those who assumed negative rates simply would cause a run on cash.

The difference, however, is «the amount of stimulus that's been provided, which has basically reflected the relative economic performances of the various economies,» Alexander said.

Buffer offers five suggestions all of which revolve around one central idea — to slow down time, feed your brain more new stimulus to chew over.

The selection of the new BOJ leadership comes at a crucial time for Japanese and global markets, which have been rattled in recent weeks on expectations major central banks will whittle down their crisis - mode stimulus.

«For the rest of the year, as the export situation may deteriorate, fiscal stimulus and further monetary easing will likely take place so as to protect the 6.5 percent growth target, which in turn will underpin growth for commodity demand,» Lau said in a note.

Verizon was spurred to make the purchase due to relatively low interest rates care of the Fed's stimulus program, which is slated to begin tapering in 2014.

The cliff is a combination of expiring tax breaks and automatic spending cuts that could remove up to $ 720 billion of government stimulus from the U.S. economy starting in January, all of which has prompted various doomsday scenarios.

The first one, which has a 57 percent probability of taking place, is Washington coming up with a framework that provides a «modest stimulus» to the U.S. deficit in favor of economic, and ultimately, earnings growth.

Net new loans surpassed the previous record of 2.51 trillion yuan in January 2016, which is likely to support growth not only in China but may underpin liquidity globally as major Western central banks begin to withdraw stimulus.

With the exception of the U.S., which recently extended Bush - era tax cuts and unemployment benefits under what has been dubbed «Stimulus II,» the push for deeply indebted countries to clean up their balance sheets has taken centre stage.

Delays in passing domestic legislation, including health care, are seen as likely to push back any new fiscal stimulus, which investors had anticipated would boost growth and possibly spur a quicker pace of interest - rate hikes.

The Fed bought $ 4.747 billion in longer - dated Treasuries as part of its stimulus program, which also supported the market, a trader noted.

He was also, however, one of the brains behind Obama's stimulus plan, which got mixed reviews from economists and might attract more partisan rancor than Yellen's San Francisco and Berkeley connections.

This is just another way in which the Fed is pumping monetary stimulus into the economy to offset the effect of fiscal restraint.

Stimulus help is coming by way of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's infrastructure program, which some analysts offer as a reason to avoid an interest - rate cut, or at least delay one.

As for recouping your investment — I am assuming since this is Mark Cubans Economic Stimulus plan and not Mark Cubans build my portfolio plan — a return on your investment over three years plus capitalized interest of that equal to that which would be earned in a money market fund should suffice.

Furthermore, we found that in people who intentionally mind wander, two main brain networks broadly overlap each other: the default - mode network, which is active when focusing on information from memory, and the fronto - parietal network, which stabilizes our focus and inhibits irrelevant stimuli as part of our cognitive control system.»

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All of which makes it hard to justify the recent eruption of demands for fiscal stimulus, largely from Bay Street economists.

No. 2 is the likelihood of a second stimulus plan, which will again work to hurt the dollar.

For one thing, further stimulus will continue to increase the amount of money in the economy, which is not causing inflation at the moment but could become inflationary when the economy does accelerate.

In the United States, for example, the Fed has introduced explicit thresholds and outlined the sequence in which the withdrawal of stimulus would likely proceed.

According to the Seventh Report to Canadians, about $ 14 billion of stimulus funding was earmarked for 2010 - 11, of which $ 12.8 billion is «voted» spending.

My guess is that as the problems of the real estate sector kick in, with lower prices causing a drop in real estate development, which matters for employment, we are likely to see additional stimulus spending aimed at managing the threat of unemployment and, perhaps more importantly, at managing the possibility of rising anger among provincial elites as the glorious prospect of easy money continues to retreat.

«Sequestration» is the result of irresponsible political posturing by the right against any new taxes, which is supposed to provide the stimulus to the economy.

In this scenario Canada would be required to contribute $ 41 billion of stimulus, which is only slightly less than what the federal government did under its Economic Action Plan.

The stimulus comes from the refinancing activity, which increases the amount of income that borrowers have available for other expenditures.

Which highlights the attractiveness of «value» as an investment strategy at a time when many equity markets have become, in our view, unsustainably expensive as a result of monetary stimulus and the success — so far — of «Smart Beta» and «growth» strategies.

While a tight labor market provides definite advantages — such as employment opportunities for workers who have struggled to find a job — nonetheless, providing too much stimulus from either monetary or fiscal policy at this stage of the economic cycle could threaten to create a so - called «boom and bust» economy, which policymakers certainly want to avoid.

First, the Canadian dollar has declined significantly since October, which means that the non-resource sectors of our economy are receiving considerably more stimulus than we projected then.

It remains, to me, a tough sell that non-resource export growth and investment, along with any possible associated stimulus for the consumer (which I remain skeptical of, but again, have been wrong about), will prove to be larger than the investment hit in the oil patch.

If the Bank doesn't see the output gap closing in eight quarters (by mid-2017), at which point it would assume that inflation is neatly around 2 %, then that's tantamount to admitting that the current degree of monetary stimulus is not sufficient to accomplish its mandate.

They are also predicting some volatility in long - term interest rates when the Federal Reserve changes its stimulus policy, which could occur in the fall of 2015.

It will be aided by the fiscal stimulus now in the pipeline, and by the recent depreciation of the $ A which, in TWI terms, is about 12 per cent below its September 1991 peak.

They've kept the funds rate (which banks use when transferring money among themselves) near zero for years, as part of an economic stimulus policy.

Now, a once - in - a-decade leadership shift is getting in the way of the stimulus - happy policies to which investors became accustomed.

In addition, these countries, which effectively form part of a «dollar bloc», are receiving considerable stimulus from low interest rates and from the lower US dollar.

There remains substantial overcapacity throughout China's heavy industry, which, together with a large build - up in private - sector borrowing, may make the Chinese authorities reticent about over-generous amounts of stimulus to boost growth again.

«Any further stimulus only increases the long - term risk of inflation, which we already view as high.»

Downward adjustments were made to the various components of direct program expenses, notably transfer payments (down ($ 1.8 billion of which $ 0.5 billion was attributable to a reprofile of stimulus funding from 2010 - 11 to 2011 - 12), other operating expenses (down $ 0.9 billion) and operating expenses subject to freeze (down $ 1.7 billion).

And although fiscal stimulus package «leaked» in the Nikkei Wednesday (JPY20trn, with JPY6trn of «real water») appears to have had a supportive impact upon stocks by weakening the yen, even at its most generous, the supplementary budget for this fiscal year is likely to total only JPY2trn, with additional stimulus spaced out over the coming years, and most of this dedicated to public works (which, many fear, runs the risk of turning into wasteful spending rather than a monetary - plus - fiscal stimulus powerhouse).

If we compare operating spending by municipalities to GDP, which is a broad measure of ability to pay, it remains within historical averages of close to 3 % of GDP.  In 2012, operating spending by all municipalities in Canada amounted to just 3.1 % of GDP, the same that it was twenty years ago, and down from the 3.3 % reached in 2009 during the depths of the recession.  This ratio was higher during the recession because GDP had dropped and governments sensibly embarked on stimulus spending to prevent a depression. This was before their misguided adventures in austerity (which presumably the CFIB supports, but have caused devastation to small businesses in countries elsewhere).