Sentences with phrase «past economic downturn»

Now in light of this past economic downturn, states want to join the parade of municipalities who have recently filed.

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Hyundai and Kia both increased their shares of the U.S. new - vehicle market in the past decade, particularly during the economic downturn of 2008 to 2010 when consumers sought out fuel - efficient and relatively low - priced vehicles.

It appears the global economy may be moving ever closer to the the dreaded double - dip recession.The premier leading economic indicator in the U.S., the ECRI Weekly Leading Indicator (WLI), now stands at a level that foreshadowed the past 7 downturns, observes David Rosenberg, chief economist with Glushkin Sheff + Associates.

[2] These jobs tend to provide higher pay and better benefits, and they have been more resilient to economic downturns than other private sector industries over the past decade.

To conclude, over the past decade and in a very volatile world, Australia has achieved the inflation target, avoided a major economic downturn, seen remarkably little variability in real economic activity in the face of enormous shocks, experienced a fairly low average rate of unemployment, and had a stable financial system as well.

An economic upswing is hiding fault lines but Merkel's past inactivity will exact a high price in the next downturn.

He said the current recession was as a result of cumulative effects of worldwide economic downturn and failure in the past to plan and save for difficult times.

This New Year, while unique in the challenges that we face in the aftermath of an economic downturn, is not unlike years past when we set goals and hope that it is better... Read more

This New Year, while unique in the challenges that we face in the aftermath of an economic downturn, is not unlike years past when we set goals and hope that it is better than the year we leave.

«However, as we have learned in the past, the good times sometimes hit a bump in the road, the market has a possible downturn and an economic recession looms in the future.»

The Governor, who was represented as the Special Guest at the forum by the Commissioner for Economic Planning & Budget, Mr. Akinyemi Ashade, expressed confidence in the regime of President Buhari to combat the fiscal failures of the past administration, which, he said, was responsible for the economy downturn we are experiencing following the crash in the price of crude oil — our major source of revenue.

A brief analysis of 10 European countries published today — the first to use government data on suicide rates from the past few years — suggests that the ongoing economic downturn may have had a larger impact on suicide rates than expected.

Over the past year, the American Association of School Administrators has monitored the impact of the economic downturn on public schools from the ground level.

Though the economic downturn has affected some of the expansion, districts, philanthropists, and teachers» unions have poured funding into a variety of new teacher home - visit projects over the past five years.

Fictionwise has seen 50 % year - to - year revenue growth each year in the past several years, and Pendergrast said he expects the same in 2009, despite the economic downturn.

The economic downturn, the layoffs, the explosion of new writers trying to get a foothold — all of that has made getting a traditional deal MUCH more difficult than in the past, especially for debut authors.

Still, I think there's long term strength in the sector as well as a lot of insulation and protection against economic downturns, which is usually what killed the domestic automakers in past economic cycles.

But it is worth noting that when the credit crisis of the past several years caused private - sector lenders to begin backing away from the student loan market, the government already found itself having to step in to fill the void and the percentage of direct loans grew considerably during the recent economic downturn.

During the economic downturn of the past few years, card offers aimed at low - and middle - income consumers had slowed.

Graham Cooke, President, World Travel Awards commented: «The past 12 months have brought several challenges, namely the economic downturn and the outbreak of swine flu, which has impacted travel and tourism worldwide; today's winners have remained focused on their long term objectives, and continued to deliver above and beyond the call of duty, setting an industry example.»

According to Nielsen research statistics, American TV - viewing has sharply increased over the past two years, as the economic downturn has forced people to spend more of their free time at home.

In the past 25 years it has been rare for emissions not to grow, except in years of severe economic downturn such as 2009.

The main factor in the past few years, though, is the economic downturn, not new energy efficiency requirements.

World carbon markets have been on the ropes over the past several years, as the global economic downturn prompted prices of EU allowances to fall 90 % from their pre-recession peak, while the value of UN-backed offsets that finance low carbon projects in developing countries became almost worthless.

Largely avoiding the pitfalls encountered by many large law firms amid the economic downturn, Kansas City — based Shook, Hardy & Bacon has instead continued a slow, steady climb over the past few years — and continued that trend into 2011, according to The American Lawyer's reporting.

In fact, there are many today who are still trying to recover the substantial portfolio losses they have endured over the past few years with the market and economic downturn.

Even during the recent economic downturn, Hoffman Estates has enjoyed significant office and retail growth over the past years and has continued to benefit from new restaurants, retailers, and business offices.

Temping may have been seen as a less attractive option than permanent work in the past, but the economic downturn of the last two years has re-shaped the job market landscape; while we continue to see growth in new jobs, companies are remaining cautious and temp jobs have started to overtake permanent roles in terms of popularity.

Today's home sales slide is something of an anomaly, since past housing downturns have been fueled by big hikes in mortgage rates and economic slowdowns.

Spurred by rising equity and property prices, household net worth as a percentage of disposable personal income has topped the highs seen before the past two economic downturns.

For example, I personally believe that we'll have another recession in the US in the next 1 - 5 years (based solely on typical economic cyclicality and past history) and, given that I'm currently a longer - term investor, I'm focusing on asset classes that I think will sustain well during downturns (ie.

Unlike past housing downturns, which were precipitated by slowing local economies, U.S. economic fundamentals remained solid, with 3.3 percent growth in the gross domestic product, job gains averaging about 150,000 a month, and interest rates remaining historically low during 2006.