Sentences with phrase «over inflation of»

President George W. Bush presided over the inflation of a housing bubble so big that its collapse is still causing economic stagnation today.

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Of course that initial $ 2.04 per week, after inflation and other escalators, works out to $ 44 billion spent on affordable housing over the next 10 years.
E-1 wages were not increased between 1952 and 1958, so Korean War and Vietnam War troops made the same amount of money at the lower ranks — except inflation over the years drove the real value of the wages down.
When citizens feel the loss of wealth due to these transfers to Germany's neighbors and due to rising inflation, domestic demand for consumer goods would «shrivel over the medium term.»
However, although the BCC believes the country will manage to avoid recession, it does anticipate slowing economic momentum over the next two years given higher inflation trends and a continued lack of clarity about the process by which the U.K. leaves the EU.
¦ Save a little more each year Over the 20 years before you retire, you would need to stash away an extra $ 500 a year, plus inflation adjustments, to compensate for a two - year delay in OAS (assuming a conservative 5 % return, and inflation of 2.5 %).
«If they do target aggressively the 2 percent inflation target, and undertake a significant amount of QE, that may have an impact on underlying JGB (Japanese government bond) yields as investors become concerned over Japan's debt,» he said.
Prices for gold bullion and other precious metals have climbed over the past decade to new heights as investors sought protection against the erosion of incomes and wealth by inflation.
Hence the question: Is it reasonable to expect that marginally looser policies would now lead to more than tripling of the growth rate (to 1.5 - 2 percent) over the next two years, while raising the inflation rate from -0.3 percent to 2 percent — as the Bank of Japan is promising?
Yet long - term plans like CPP calculate their benefits on the basis of earnings over the course of a worker's career, indexed for inflation, which may be quite a bit lower.
But other economists argue that if inflation is a monetary issue, and a helicopter drop of cash is fundamentally fiscal, then the worry over sparking inflation is misplaced.
If the bulls are right, EPS would grow 8.5 points faster than the economy (assuming 2.5 % real annual GDP growth plus 2 % inflation) for the next ten years, hitting over 16 % of national income by 2028.
A more reasonable level for Carney to reach over the next two years is closer to 3 %, Koeppl says, to keep ahead of inflation and reduce the negative effects of low rates.
When you purchase a broad swath of equities, say an S&P 500 index fund, the returns you can expect over the next decade or so comprise four building blocks: the starting dividend yield, projected growth in real earnings per share, expected inflation, and the expected change in «valuation» — that is, the expansion or contraction in the price / earnings (P / E) multiple.
GIC said that over the 20 years through the end of March, its annualized real rate of return, or the return excluding the global inflation rate, was 3.7 percent a year.
A 25 - year - old earning a starting salary of $ 40,456 (adjusted annually for inflation) and saving 15 % each year has over a 99 % chance of maintaining at least their initial investment — the same as a traditional savings account — over 40 years.
Other important assumptions not specified above are a $ 0.99 US / Cdn FX rate, a $ 4 / bbl diluent premium over light oil and a $ CDN 15 difference between the $ CDN - equivalent WTI price and WCS prices at Hardisty, both increasing with inflation, and transportation charges of $ 1 / bbl for diluent and $ 1.50 / bbl for dilbit to / from Hardisty.
At the Federal Reserve's target rate of 2 percent, inflation could erode more than $ 73,000 of a retiree's purchasing power over 20 years if that person were receiving the monthly average Social Security retirement payment of $ 1,341.
«Overall we think the increase in core CPI inflation in January is a sign of things to come over the rest of the year,» said Michael Pearce, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics.
Without increasing the tax share of output, 1 per cent real growth over the next 40 years will yield an inflation - adjusted increase in tax revenue per capita of about 50 per cent.
Details of the meeting showed that policymakers were worried over the fate of currently low inflation and saw the recent tax changes as providing a boost to the economy.
That puts core inflation at a pace of 1.8 percent year over year.
Further, over 60 per cent of the «core» Consumer Price Index that excludes more volatile items is posting gains of 1.5 per cent or more and one - third of the basket exceeds the Bank of Canada's 2 per cent inflation target.
Since each board naturally believes their CEO is of above - average ability, the result is inflation over time.
But if average inflation were to more than double to 4 % over the next 30 years, a renter who put in the equivalent of a downpayment as well as annual principal payments into the stock market instead of toward a house would end up a little more than $ 415,000 richer 30 years later than someone who bought, even after factoring in the cost of renting.
Protectionism tops the list of worries on Wall Street, the survey shows, far outpacing concerns over inflation, terrorism and even the Fed itself.
«Now, even if inflation does accelerate over the remainder of the year, there's still reason for the bank to be cautious on future rate hikes.»
Normally a 6 % growth rate in M2 would be highly inflationary (and Canada did experience periods of over 3 % inflation in mid-2001 and late 2002 - early 2003).
«We expect the economy will continue to perform well, with the job market strengthening further and inflation rising to 2 percent over the next couple of years,» Fed Chair Janet Yellen said.
The Fed for example fought a difficult battle with inflation in the 1970s, hiking interest rates to recession - provoking levels and eventually winning a war of credibility over its ability to rein in price increases.
And as Canadian home values ballooned over the past decade well ahead of inflation, being a realtor became all the more lucrative.
Because PE is a measure of earnings over time, you can think of it as representing the number of years required to pay back a stock's purchase price (ignoring inflation, earnings growth and the time value of money).
This week, Germany's business pages have been full of little warnings about the Return of Inflation, the biggest bogeyman in the Teutonic economic lexicon, all because the annual consumer price index rose to its highest level in over three years in December, a shocking 1.7 %.
«We have been falling short of our inflation objective not just in the past year, but over a longer period as well.
Unfortunately, over the years, more and more middle income taxpayers have been subject to the AMT and have consequently owed additional taxes, because the AMT exemption — the amount of income which isn't subject to additional taxes — isn't indexed to inflation.
Doubling down on his stance, he said the fact that the United States has historically had a tighter inflation range and broader unemployment range than that of the euro zone, Britain and Sweden suggests the Fed could have been even more stimulative over the past five years.
Perhaps it's due to the experience over the last decade of low inflation.
Stovall's also found that when inflation is between 1.5 % and 2.5 % — around where it is now — the market has risen, over the next four quarters, 80 % of the time and, on average, by 10 %.
I think the transmission of the monetary policy may be improving... But the question is over the missing inflation,» he said.
To illustrate the issue, over the past 20 years, the cost of a new drug per year of a patient's life has risen from $ 50,000 to $ 250,000 after adjusting for inflation, according to Peter Bach, director of the Center for Health Policy and Outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering, who also spoke at the conference.
The long - term +6 % CAGR (over inflation) of the equity markets simply can not be beat.
The solution then is inflation, in our arguments over the last week Nick and I disagreed about the various transmission mechanisms from monetary policy to the real economy (we also argued over the basic causes of the trap, the last sentance was my version).
Inflation averaged just 1.6 per cent last year, and the economy entered a soft spot in the second half that spilled over into the early part of 2018.
Inflation measures how much more expensive a set of goods and services has become over a certain period, usually a year
The U.S. inflation rate has averaged about 1.7 per cent over the past year, compared with the Fed's target of 2 per cent.
Central banks approach this challenge of capturing underlying inflation differently, but ultimately we are all judged by what happens to overall inflation over time.
CPI inflation has recorded its lowest outcome in a decade, of 1 1/2 per cent over the year to June.
But none of globalization's effects on inflation, not even the potential reduction in inflationary bias, diminish the importance of the principal objective of central banks: setting policy to achieve low and stable rates of inflation over time.
On Wednesday a board member of the Bank of Japan said that the central bank should stick with its ultra-easy monetary policy, despite recent signs of economic recovery, because uncertainty remains over how fast inflation will rise.
That is, would expectations of outsized demand growth — of, say, 4 percent per year over the next four years in inflation - adjusted terms — generate undue inflationary pressures that would require the Federal Reserve to respond by raising interest rates, essentially killing off any actual growth that those expectations could generate?
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