Sentences with phrase «on economic troubles»

[UPDATE, 12:15 p.m.: Here are Herman Daly's views on economic troubles.]

Scientists and campaigners are pressing with ever stronger language to convince the public, fixated on economic troubles, that efforts to curb heat - trapping gases can not be delayed.

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What that means is that you are in an environment that is going to have further trouble in terms of investment returns that are in areas that are based on economic growth and areas that do relatively well like bonds... Broadly speaking, I think that investors should be looking for lower prices on most risk assets in these developed countries with the exception of Japan.»

A good part of Putin's political success has been based on his record of improving people's welfare, but with no relief in sight for Russia's economic troubles, it may only be a matter a time before the general populace begins to feel the pinch more sharply.

So, while American companies are turning out home assistants focused on entertainment and efficiency, a holographic wife may be a needed balm for Japan's troubled socio - economic landscape.

Ongoing economic trouble in Europe, including a «bank jog» on Greek banks, this week could signal a third round of quantitative easing on this side of the Atlantic.

And we are not talking just about the recent rise in lipstick sales at Estée Lauder, which is considered by some to be a hot - red indicator of economic trouble (at least on slow news days) on the horizon because consumers tend to turn to less expensive indulgences when losing confidence in the future.

U.S. stocks took their biggest loss in five months Tuesday as a health care bill backed by President Donald Trump ran into trouble in Congress, which raised some questions about his agenda of faster economic growth spurred on by lower taxes and cuts in regulations.

On the prospect of recession, I'm reasonably well - known as one of the only economists who correctly warned in real - time of oncoming recessions in October 2000 and again in November 2007 — both points where the consensus of economic forecasters indicated no expectation of oncoming trouble at all.

If Canadians become more focused on economic risks, the thinking goes, they will pay less attention to the Duffy scandal, and they will be more cautious when casting their ballot. In this world - view, it actually helps the Conservatives to talk up bad economic news. This marks a U-turn from earlier messaging, when Conservatives first tried (futilely) to deny the economy was in any trouble at all. With the negative numbers piling up around them, the Tory spin machine has decided to throw in the towel, and try to make a silk purse from this sow's ear. They now want to emphasize the gloomy economic outlook (while simultaneously, of course, evading blame for contributing to it at all).

Not all of their troubles can be blamed on the nation's economic crisis, say critics of the name - it - and - claim - it theology found in some charismatic churches.

Without the political and economic structures that are in place today, travel beyond one's homeland was difficult and dangerous; there were no rules that one could count on and no embassy to call if one got into trouble.

«Murray Goulburn (MG) is still in a heap of trouble — my assessment is that if MG was running on their traditional economic profile, the value would be between $ 5.50 and $ 6 kg / MS,» Mr Hauser said.

But when I asked this question yesterday at our Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, I learned that not only does stigma remain a real issue at some schools, there's now a troubling, modern - day twist on the problem: on some campuses, hapless kids standing in the federally reimbursable meal line are having their pictures taken by other students» cell phones, with the photos then uploaded to Facebook and / or texted around the school along with disparaging messages about the child's economic status.

The state budget includes no significant new controls or oversight on how the Cuomo administration spends money on economic development projects, and that troubles many lawmakers after federal prosecutors accused eight men of bid - rigging schemes in earlier development projects.

Nick Clegg's demands today for an emergency tax on Britain's wealthiest — in order to rescue Britain from its economic troubles — was effectively slammed shut by the Chancellor this morning.

YouGov President Peter Kellner on why the Conservative party's trouble with northerners may have less than to do with economic, ideological or social factors... (Comments: 0)

Obamacare is in trouble because it was based on a flawed economic model, as the skyrocketing premiums indicate.

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.

Projects range from economic development aid for troubled regions, to funding the $ 4 billion dollar new Tappan Zee Bridge on the New York State Thruway over the Hudson River.

Wilson has experience in turning around troubled companies and served on the task force created by Democratic President Barack Obama to save the auto industry following the economic downturn.

Astorino, in his address, went through a litany of complaints he's often cited on the campaign trail: New York's high tax and regulator climate as well as historic economic troubles in upstate regions like the Southern Tier.

The trouble with a VAT system (or benefit, depending upon your economic and policy preferences), however, is that unlike an income tax, a VAT does not tax investment income that is not spent on VAT taxable goods or services.

He's expected to focus on reforming the state's public schools and criminal justice system, and economic development in troubled upstate regions.

Legislators grilled Zemsky on the troubled tax free Start - Up New York program, which Cuomo subsumed into another economic development program in his new budget, after a report showed the program created just 408 jobs so far.

Legislators grilled Zemsky on the troubled tax - free Start - Up NY program, which Cuomo subsumed into another economic development program in his new budget after a report showed the program created just 408 jobs so far.

Cuomo adds that though he is against tax increases, especially in New York, the burden of the economic troubles the U.S. faces can't be put on the middles class entirely.

Lawmakers had more trouble getting agreements on ethics reforms, in a year that's seen the two former legislative leaders sentenced to prison and state and federal probes of Governor Cuomo's economic development programs.

YouGov President, Peter Kellner, discusses some of the findings from YouGov research for the Resolution Foundation about the economic troubles which have left a deep mark on the public opinion.

From a US political standpoint, though, I find it troubling that for the US to «do» something about global warming, such as joining the Kyoto Protocol, would require potentially serious negative economic impacts on the US economy.

It appears in flashes: the family's economic troubles (and the toll it takes on their relationships), the tensions created by wealth disparity, the widespread social and psychological problems produced by such conditions.

The fact that the Euro is in such trouble and creating such political and economic turmoil ought to scare us away from trying to impose a centralized solution on too much diversity.

Despite the nation's troubled economic times, voters across the country approved several state and local ballot measures Nov. 5 that call for billions of dollars in new spending on school programs for students of all ages.

On the other hand, there are many non profit financial institutions providing personal loans for people in financial troubles to help them go through a temporary complex economic situation.

«The stress is moving from residential mortgages that are still in deep trouble, to commercial real estate, where they are just starting to recognize that they're going to have massive, massive losses,» Mr. Roubini of RGE Global Monitor told reporters after a presentation for a World Economic Forum report on the global financial system.

Trump's other economic policies, at least on their face, are no less troubling.

If you were two (or more) random people sharing a condo purely for economic reasons, i.e. you are not a family in any sense but each of you would have trouble affording a place on your own, it's common for all the room mates to share the rent or mortgage, utilities, etc, but for one person to collect all the money and write one check to the landlord, etc..

But if the theory behind the Valuation - Informed Indexing model is on the mark, it is not economic conditions that are causing our troubles — it is the largely ignored reality that we borrowed $ 12 trillion from future investors to pay for the bull markets of the late 1990s and that we now need to pay that money back.

His most recent works bear on the troubling complexity of international matters including economic dependency and refugee flows.

Running between 30 August 2017 and 26 November 2017, Soundtrack for a troubled time and notes on humiliation puts on «absurdist replays of the political, economic and media rhetoric of our time;» [5] testifying, once again, the artist's commitment to a performance orchestrated in the pace of a continuing conversation.

When one examines the troubling contradictions — astonishing cruelty, environmental and health risks, economic imbalances — involved with the business behind and mass consumption of meat, vegetarianism takes on the urgency of much larger debates in which the survival of the human race is at stake.

[UPDATE, 4/11: President Obama is showing signs of shifting climate down a notch or two on his to - do list, according to John Broder's latest article, which is unsurprising considering the ongoing economic troubles and recent administration signals that health care is next in line behind the economy.

Given persistent debt troubles, the deep divisions between haves and have nots, and wear and tear on the planet's living systems, there's much talk these days of new ways to define, gauge and nurture economic progress.

In an ideal world you might think that a serious bunch of people who really believed that is was absolutely necessary to make major changes to our current economic structures would at least take the time and trouble to become world experts on their case.

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The Spanish government is obviously dealing with lots of economic and social problems at home, and has trouble justifying the money that would need to be spent on the project.

clean energy innovation improving consumer choice and affordability more efficient use of energy deeper penetration of renewable energy resources wider deployment of «distributed» energy resources micro grids roof - top solar on - site power supplies and storage promote markets advanced energy management enhance demand elasticity and efficiencies empower customers more choice 50 % of its electricity from renewable resources by 2030 business as usual bad public policy clean energy's economic and environmental potential the power industry was headed for trouble rising utility bills growing customer dissatisfaction socially unjust clean energy economy haves - and - have - nots change in culture business model for the whole system moves the electric industry away from a monopoly, top - down and incentive driven system governed by the market emphasizes distributed energy a distributed system platform market exchange microgrids solar energy efficiency distributed energy resources compete to serve the grid pro-consumer pro-innovation markets - based more affordable resilient capital efficiencies encouraging more distributed energy demand response energy efficiency

«Our global civilization today is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, a path that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse,» says Lester Brown in Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble.

3: Betty White's If You Ask Me, Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner's Reckless Endangerment, about our economic crisis, and Christine O'Donnell's Trouble Maker (I have an interview scheduled with her and I read all the books of authors who appear on our news show).