Sentences with phrase «of the worst economies in»

I think it's interesting that consistently the areas with the most mines and power plants on these map have some of the worst economies in America.

We «hit the road» in 2008 in the midst of the worst economy in years.

Indeed, her resume more closely resembled the just graduated from college, rather than the polished, professional look of a resume you'd expect from a 42 - year - old sales - operations professional with 15 - plus years of experience at exceeding goals and closing deals in the midst of the worst economy in decades.

Because of our strong focus on quality, customer service and price, Natural Essentials has maintained outstanding growth in one of the worst economies in U.S. history.

Not exact matches

At a time when debate about a potential outer harbour project south of Perth is building momentum, a look at the history of development in Kwinana's industrial zone provides an illustration of the impact of government intervention in the state's economy, for better or worse.

Dental hygiene Unfortunately for dentists — and happily for thousands of anti-dentites — in a bad economy, a visit to the dentist's chair is likely to be written off as a luxury.

The BRIC's worst economic performer thus far in 2009, Russia is overly reliant on energy, has a declining and aging population with Third World mortality rates and an authoritarian government too willing to intervene in its economy to the detriment of investors.

The Treasury report concluded that all types of Brexit — from membership of the European Economic Area to crashing out without a deal — would be worse for the economy than staying in the bloc.

«Whenever interest rates go up, most likely we see some softening of prices, but we don't think it will be bad enough to hurt the economy in a meaningful way.»

In checks on the financial strength of the country's four main banks - National Bank of Greece, Piraeus, Alpha Bank and Eurobank - the ECB determined that even if the economy performs as forecast, the banks would need almost 4.4 billion euros ($ 4.8 billion) and more than 14 billion if it performs worse than expected, in a so - called «adverse scenario»In checks on the financial strength of the country's four main banks - National Bank of Greece, Piraeus, Alpha Bank and Eurobank - the ECB determined that even if the economy performs as forecast, the banks would need almost 4.4 billion euros ($ 4.8 billion) and more than 14 billion if it performs worse than expected, in a so - called «adverse scenario»in a so - called «adverse scenario».

Even worse, 3 % of our retail economy takes place online — less than half of that of the United States and one - eighth of the levels in the United Kingdom.

What is making the situation worse in terms of growth, says Poloz, is that boomers in the developed world have been putting their money into real estate rather than investments that can stimulate the economy.

«You know I think the way we deal with the tax bill is by being honest about it, saying across time the very significant tax reductions for groups and parts of our economy that really weren't needed will hurt the fiscal condition of the country and put us in a bad position as it relates to other priorities we have,» Delaney said.

Many learned to weather the worst of the economic storm, and have built strong businesses that they believe can succeed in the the new economy.

It often means that they are forced into even worse options that are less regulated, sit on the fringes of the economy, or unravel stability in other parts of their lives.

LONDON, Oct 24 - The euro fell to a one - week low against the dollar on Wednesday after worse - than - expected German business activity and sentiment data fuelled concerns of weakness in the euro zone's largest economy.

Andrew Policano, dean of The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine, shares his thoughts on news — good and bad — in the economy.

After devoting a solid 15 pages of his letter on how the U.S. should slash regulations, Dimon made a point to single out a single area of government oversight that has undeniable value: «Some regulations quite clearly create a common good (e.g., clean air and water),» Dimon noted, in a sentence that went on to catalog the ways regulation is otherwise bad for the economy — making it all the more striking that he chose to highlight environmental issues.

All of their meddling is resulting in bad vibrations for the global economy.

While the U.S. economy shrank a surprisingly sharp 2.9 % in the first quarter of 2014, the worst quarterly performance since the first quarter of 2009, the economy is expected to improve drastically in the second quarter helped by better weather conditions, some pent - up demand after a harsh winter, and job growth.

But underneath the bad headline is the real story of what's going on in the economy right now, and the story is pretty simple: Consumers are winning.

«Often in the hands of entrepreneurs or families, small businesses with up to 99 employees are typically more flexible when economic shifts occur but can lack the deep pockets to survive a major decline in the economy,» notes the Index besides a graph showing a sharp decline in wages during the worst years of the economic crisis and a steep increase over the last three quarters of last year.

The bad economy is only underscoring what savvy business owners already know about IT, says Michael Kraner, CEO of Primary Support, a 10 - person IT consulting firm in New York City.

«They have talked about trying to rebalance the economy for 5 or 10 years now, but the imbalances got even worse, so you simply fall back on the model that got you into the difficulty in the first place,» said Peter Elston, head of Asia - Pacific strategy and asset allocation at Aberdeen Asset Management.

Connecticut, which comes in 46th, has the fourth - highest cost of doing business, the third - highest cost of living and the nation's second - worst economy; only Alaska's is worse.

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.

There's a lot of talk these days about how bad the economy is and how we seem to be in a state of permanently low growth.

The Southeast Asian economy expanded 4.9 percent on - year over the April - June period amid uncertainties in global growth, persistent weakness in oil prices and the spreading of what is being called the country's worst - ever political crisis.

The Swiss National Bank said in its statement that, essentially, it felt the worst of the danger was past and that the Swiss economy had had enough time to adjust to a strong franc.

Is the weakness in the stock price or underlying financial performance a result of forces across the entire sector, industry, or economy, or is it caused by firm - specific bad news?

The so - called policies of fiscal stabilization dictated by the Bundestag will only make the situation in the eurozone's fourth - largest economy worse, not better.

The next best 5 - year period began in July 1982, amid an economy in the midst of one of the worst recessions in the postwar period, featuring double - digit levels of unemployment and interest rates.

If lower oil prices are as bad for Canada's economy as rate - cutting Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz insists, the central bank might consider assessing the risks to the economy in a world where constraining carbon emissions becomes less of an abstract notion and more of a daily reality.

The result is that instead of running the banking system for the economy, Latvia and other post-Soviet economies are managing their economies to maintain bank solvency — as if the indebted population is really expected to spend the rest of their lives paying off the deep negative equity left in the wake of bad loans.

Nationally, 1 in 7 young people are disconnected from the economy, a challenge that is exponentially worse in low - income communities, particularly among people of color.

Eight years after the beginning of the last recession, the economy is in much worse shape than was expected — at least judging from the forecasts that the Congressional Budget Office published back in August 2007.

Beijing is trying to boost domestic liquidity in the hopes that this will generate stronger domestic demand, but expanding liquidity fuels capital outflows, and these put downward pressure on the currency, while increasing PBoC concerns about the monetary impact of money leaving the economy which, as an article in last week's FT argues, might be worse than we think.

(On the flip side, this situation leads to a special type of investment operation that actually causes people to seek out ownership of bad businesses when they think the economy is likely to recover given that they experience bigger upswings as the operating leverage effect happens in reverse.)

Much like the buildup of plaque deposits in human veins and arteries, an accumulation of debt gained momentum exponentially until the economy crashed, wiping out bad debts — along with savings on the other side of the balance sheet.

Insolvent homeowners in Europe face a lifetime of literal debt peonage to make the banks (even foreign banks, which dominate Central Europe's post-Soviet economies) whole on their bad debts as the continent's real estate prices are plunging even more steeply than those in the United States — some 70 percent in Iceland and Latvia.

In fact, the Federal Reserve ran a stress test this year that found that, if the economy took a sharp turn for the worse, some 13.7 percent of credit card debt would go into default.

As a result of all this, economic growth in France is among the worst for major EU economies.

The system threatens to collapse in such a way that will leave a legacy of financial cleanup costs for the bad debts that form the counterpart to the economy's «bad savings», that is, savings lent to speculators who use the money simply to buy existing properties rather than to create new assets.

In fact, while many international economies are stalling or worse, Panama's remains one of the fastest - growing in the worlIn fact, while many international economies are stalling or worse, Panama's remains one of the fastest - growing in the worlin the world.

In a poll conducted the Forum Research Inc. 36 % of the respondents said the budget was bad for the economy.

If the authorities are willing to engage in loss - making activities to achieve the GDP growth target, there are two relevant characteristics of an economy like China's that change the nature of the GDP measure: first, economic activity is much less affected by hard - budget constraints than it is in most other economies; and second, bad debt is much less likely to be written down.

Second, assume that the bad debt generated by the system (by which I mean the excess portion of any debt used to fund projects that add less value to the economy than the cost of the project) is not written down within the reporting period in which it was extended.

I hoped that this wouldn't happen, because the longer reported GDP growth remained high, the worse for China's economy over the medium to long term, but in the end the pace of adjustment was always going to be driven by political variables, not economic variables, and this made it very hard to project with much confidence.

I would argue that the mechanism that forced up the savings rates in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact economies seems to have been the scarcity of consumer goods: income levels among workers were generally not too bad, but these workers could only convert income into consumption with great difficulty, if they got in the right line at the right store early enough.

This uncertainty should gradually decline — for better or for worse — over the coming months, as the sequester's impact takes hold and more economic data come in, giving us a clearer picture of the forward momentum of the economy.