Living ecologically in the present moment may mean investigating one's own watershed, learning where one's food is grown, understanding one's dependence
on economic use of trees and oil.
Not exact matches
It would be unfortunate if this were the case, as this data is reported
on with the assumption it is reliable and local policy makers and
economic development agencies
use the data when making policy.
Using figures provided by the U.S. Bureau of
Economic Analysis, Canada's embassy in Washington provides detailed state - by - state data
on the number of U.S. jobs that depend
on Canada-U.S. trade.
For more than a year, Finland has been testing the proposition that the best way to lift
economic fortunes may be the simplest: Hand out money without rules or restrictions
on how people
use it.
Though Kashkari begins with a broad attack
on monetary rules, it quickly devolves into a focused attack
on the Taylor Rule which he argues «effectively turn [s] monetary policy over to a computer, rather than continue to let Fed policy makers
use their best judgment to consider a wide range of data and
economic trends.»
Its work shows that marginal tax increases have little effect
on economic growth, provided the revenue is
used to pay for things such as education and healthcare.
Last year, median household income in the United States was $ 59,039 — lower than the $ 59,992 median in 2007 or the $ 60,399 median income in 2000 — based
on calculations by the
Economic Policy Institute
using Census data.
Based
on that increase, I'd say more small business owners are getting
used to the new
economic norm, which includes getting a whole lot more done with a whole lot less resources.
Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of
economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and
uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU,
on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted
on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition
on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger
on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or
on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.
The CD Howe Business Cycle Council (of which I'm a member) is based
on a collective consensus, which is also the technique
used by the U.S. National Bureau of
Economic Research.
Where
economic elites in previous centuries may have
used social Darwinism and even religion to explain away
economic inequality, from the 1950s
on economic elites have intentionally and strategically spread the gospel of Economics 101 throughout American political and popular culture in a similar way.
We assign a point weighting to each category based
on how frequently it is
used as a selling point in state
economic development marketing materials.
John Canally, chief
economic strategist for LPL Financial, said the language may continue to be
used in coming months «as transition words» until «it becomes clear to FOMC members that the overall economy, the labor market, and inflation are well
on their way toward hitting the FOMC's targets.»
Then we separate those metrics into 10 broad categories, weighted based
on how frequently each is
used as a selling point in state
economic development marketing materials.
The head of tax at the Organization for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which advises developed nations
on policy, said the UK could
use its freedom from EU rules to slash corporate tax but the political price would be high.
Russia's energy minister has said sanctions
on his country are obviously being
used to gain
economic advantage.
The yield curve - the plot of all of the yields
on Treasury securities of maturities from four weeks to 30 years - is
used as a signal of
economic health of the economy.
The other major facet of the Chinese censorship enterprise is the
use of
economic benefits or repercussions for businesses and publications, based
on their coverage.
Levine, a former member of President Obama's
economic policy team, notes that almost all political candidates are
on her service these days and
using it in interesting ways to campaign and connect with potential voters.
Hong Kong media reported that all were in talks with Shenzhen's city government
on land
use in the new Qianhai special
economic zone, traders said.
Speaking before the Senate Intelligence Committee alongside the heads of other US intelligence agencies, Wray said that to undermine the US's military,
economic, cultural, and informational power across the globe, China was
using methods relying
on more than just its state institutions.
Using our tried - and - true methodology, we assign a weight to each category based
on how frequently the states
use them as selling points in their
economic development marketing pitches.
BERLIN — Despite bitter opposition in many quarters to the austerity - first policies Germany has imposed
on Europe's poorer nations, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has hung
on to its role as champion of integration
on the Continent through deft
use of diplomacy and the country's
economic clout.
In addition, interest rates
on U.S. Treasury bonds are
used as barometers for determining global
economic health [9], and as pegs for many other interest rates, including American mortgage and student loan rates [10, 11].
NRF's holiday sales forecast is based
on an
economic model
using several indicators including, consumer credit, disposable personal income and previous monthly retail sales releases.
Some researchers argue that it is impossible to determine when a contractor is truly working for a company during the times when the worker is waiting to pick up a ride, because the driver could be
using two applications at once or attending to personal business.100 However, as noted in a 2016 report by the
Economic Policy Institute, both Uber and Lyft already have guaranteed pay plans that they
use in some markets during certain hours that pay workers guaranteed minimum earnings per hour based
on their entire time logged into the system, including waiting times.101
The company focuses
on cancer drug research and has a platform for so - called «real - world» data, which can be
used to assess the
economic value of medicines and is sought after by drug makers looking to justify their prices to health insurers.
The
economic forecast he
uses for this Update should be based
on the «realistic» assumption that the two critical assumptions will not be fulfilled.
JBSS»
use of
economic earnings to measure performance also earns it a spot
on October's Exec Comp Aligned with ROIC Model Portfolio.
Although PBO surveys private sector economists
on a regular basis, the
economic forecasts
used for their updates, since June 2011, are based
on PBO's assessment of future
economic developments and not those of the private sector economists.
By conducting research
on the flow of capital into off - grid energy systems in Canada, they will
use these findings to propose strategies for diverting funds towards long - term
economic and clean power in these regions.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and
economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end -
use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; delays in the completion of project sales; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report
on Form 20 - F filed
on April 27, 2017.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and
economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end -
use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report
on Form 20 - F filed
on April 20, 2016.
Based
on a dynamic factor model (DFM) methodology, we
use a broad range of international
economic indicators (close to 300) to estimate external demand for Canadian exports.
The principle doesn't work when people
use their income to pay mortgages
on increasingly expensive homes and pay credit card debts and other loans they have had to take out just to break even as the
economic screws have been tightened.
«
On the other hand,
using the same essential measures of valuation and market action, but including periods of major
economic dislocation into the dataset, produces average return / risk inferences that are substantially less favorable.
The full version is
on - line
on CUPE's website at http://cupe.ca/economics/missing-action-federal-budget-2014 together with CUPE's press release at: http://cupe.ca/economics/federal-budget-2014-help-hurt-canadian Missing In Action: Federal Budget 2014 CUPE Federal Budget 2014 Summary and Response  Conservatives ignore pressing
economic needs with a Do - little budget
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Factors that could cause actual results to differ include general business and
economic conditions and the state of the solar industry; governmental support for the deployment of solar power; future available supplies of high - purity silicon; demand for end -
use products by consumers and inventory levels of such products in the supply chain; changes in demand from significant customers; changes in demand from major markets such as Japan, the U.S., India and China; changes in customer order patterns; changes in product mix; capacity utilization; level of competition; pricing pressure and declines in average selling prices; delays in new product introduction; delays in utility - scale project approval process; delays in utility - scale project construction; cancelation of utility - scale feed - in - tariff contracts in Japan; continued success in technological innovations and delivery of products with the features customers demand; shortage in supply of materials or capacity requirements; availability of financing; exchange rate fluctuations; litigation and other risks as described in the Company's SEC filings, including its annual report
on Form 20 - F filed
on April 27, 2017.
Our top - down approach is
used to identify attractive areas to invest in based
on business and
economic trends.
In the Australian experience, notwithstanding some significant transitional difficulties, the move away from
using direct controls to implement monetary policy to a system based
on market operations ultimately gave the authorities greater scope to manage the economy, and helped pave the way for a return to
economic stability.
The former, which consists only of the five Arctic states with direct borders
on the Arctic Ocean — Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Norway, Russia, and the United States — primarily deals with oceanic issues.74 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu even complained in 2015 about non-Arctic states
using their military and
economic power to «strive for greater roles in the Arctic,» 75 which likely was an implicit reference to China.
As a proxy for political uncertainty I
used the popular
Economic Policy Uncertainty indexes, measures based
on real - time news flow.
A portion of the commentary above is an excerpt from the latest Short Seller's Journal, a weekly newsletter that provides insight
on the latest
economic data and provides short - sell ideas, including strategies for
using options.
The Trump administration has largely shunned the highly structured discussions of past administrations, which were
used to try to reach agreement
on economic and security issues.
Finance Canada will also
use its Twitter account to chronicle Flaherty's budget day and link to web pages featuring details
on the budget, dubbed
Economic Action Plan 2013.
Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures;
economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company
uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments
on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations; pricing actions; and other factors.
The PBO
used the
economic projections from the Department of Finance's December 2010 survey of private sector forecasters [2], released
on February 1, 2011.
«The market will have to get
used to the fact that in order to prevent an
economic overheating interest rates in the U.S. will continue to rise,» Commerzbank analysts said, predicting that rate differentials between countries would have a greater bearing
on currencies and could cement euro / dollar around $ 1.20.
For example, many day traders are focused
on trading e-minis with a focus
on either
economic event - driven moves — such as GDP releases or FOMC minutes — or purely technical trading
using chart setups or indicators.
Long before James Tobin assigned the letter «Q» to this asset - price ratio, financial analysts were
using it as a means to judge how much capacity an
economic sector had to take
on more loans.