Sentences with phrase «periods of recession»

I read somewhere that economists no longer speak in terms other than «growth,» that our society's obsession with growth has led them to characterize periods of recession as «negative growth.»

Emissions scenarios compatible with 1.5 C could also require very high maximum rates of decarbonisation, comparable only with those seen for past emissions during short periods of recession or war.

The outlook again becomes even less compelling when you isolate the analysis to just periods of recession.

The Permanent Portfolio Holdings include 25 % stocks for periods of prosperity and inflation, 25 % long - term bonds for periods of deflation and recession, 25 % gold bullion for periods of inflation and 25 % cash for periods of recession and inflation.

Organize students into groups and have them make predictions about what would happen if different scenarios of fiscal and monetary policy were implemented during inflationary periods and periods of recession / depression.

The second distinctive characteristic of the human level is that, despite periods of recession, successive generations add something to the diversity and range of meanings which language and other symbols can carry.

-- I do not want to worry about making payroll when we have periods of a recession or slowed giving.

P&G's competitive advantages allow the company to remain profitable, even during periods of recession.

This means that historically, gold will more often than not move in the opposite direction of stocks during periods of recession.

It isn't that the central banks were wrong to do what they could, it is that what they could do was not enough, and never could be enough, fully to restore demand after a period of recession associated with a very substantial debt build - up.

They were not so much employed as instruments of the secular arm as they had been by the princes of the period of recession which preceded the Middle Ages.

The PDP leader said that the clarification would boost the confidence of Nigerians on the management of their resources, especially in this period of recession, and was necessary before thinking of engaging in external borrowing.

Michael Elmendorf, State Director of the National Federation of Independent Business in New York, said: «It is no secret that New York's small businesses have felt the enormous credit crunch and limited access to credit during this period of recession.

Wilkinson also discovered, however, that both initial financial strain and increasing strain over the period of the Recession exacted a toll on mental health.

There have been nine recessions in the United States since 1955, but before the current period of recession followed by slow growth, public education employees were significantly impacted by layoffs in only one economic downturn, in 1982 - 83.

This paper examines the influence of teacher assistants and other personnel on student outcomes in elementary schools during a period of recession...

This paper examines the influence of teacher assistants and other personnel on student outcomes in elementary schools during a period of recession - induced cutbacks in teachers and teacher assistants.

The Middle East is in turmoil and the resulting spike in oil prices has tipped an already fragile global financial system into a lengthy period of recession.

Revised strategies and policies brought more business to the company in the period of recession.

Not exact matches

According to 34 - nation Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Canada would place fifth during the recovery period according to the percentage of the working age population that held a job at the end of 2013, compared to the situation prior to the 2008 - 09 recession.

The September 1 Gross Domestic Product release will be the one that will let us know whether or not we are in a recession, at least by the semi-official definition of «a period of at least two consecutive quarters of negative growth in real gross domestic product for Canada, as reported by Statistics Canada under the Statistics Act.»

In general, however, a recession ends when the economy starts to grow for a period of time, usually two or more business quarters.

The result is Canada is at «some risk» of a balance sheet recession — a period of slow growth or decline caused by consumers saving and paying down debt rather than spending.

The 20 - year period from 1977 to 1997, as this encompasses a variety of macro-economic conditions: five years of stagflation and two back - to - back recessions (1977 - 1982), strong growth from 1983 to 1990, a mild recession in 1991, and growth from 1993 to 1997.

«In 2017, we enter a period of geopolitical recession.»

«Our base case forecast is that the macroeconomic cost of keeping the Euro - zone going will be a recession across most of Europe through at least the first half of 2012 and a prolonged period of subdued growth after that....»

In the period leading up to the 2008 global recession, KingFisher established a war chest that allowed it not only to ride out the downturn but also finance its subsequent purchase of two Washington - based manufacturers: Renaissance Marine Group and Hells Canyon Marine (KingFisher also employs approximately 200 people at its U.S. facility).

In fact, we could already be in a recession (as numbers get revised downward in later periods this would become apparent) or, if not now, than most certainly by Q1 of next year.

Many economists may be speculating about this being a W - shaped recession, or double dip recession, but I firmly believe we're at the trough of an L - shaped recession, with expected prolonged periods of underperformance.

«It doesn't only matter how big GDP is in the future, but also how it gets there, such as by slow steady growth, or by periods of rapid growth mixed with recession,» he said.

And it doesn't take a genius to recognize that a prolonged period of low interest rates can lead to a build - up of vulnerabilities which could derail an expansion and deepen a subsequent recession.

The disappointing trends of the Great Recession and its aftermath come on the heels of the weak labor market from 2000 - 2007, during which the median income of non-elderly households fell significantly from $ 68,941 to $ 66,575, the first time in the post-war period that incomes failed to grow over a business cycle.

Indeed, over the period of time when Italy was in recession, the country's political scene has been nothing short of a mess, having gone from the scandal - hit tenure of billionaire businessman Silvio Berlusconi, to a technocratic government and two general elections in the space of a year.

One of the few escape clauses is a recession, which the statute defines as «a period of at least two consecutive quarters of negative growth in real gross domestic product as reported by Statistics Canada under the Statistics Act.»

«With the Canadian economy in recession, it is of no surprise the period characterized by consumerism has ended,» wrote Diana Petramala, an economist at TD Financial Group, in a May 2009 report that conveyed the spirit of the time.

It seems to imply that if I have a good idea and it is well thought out, etc., it is equally OK to launch it during a recession or during periods of growth.

After past recessions, wage increases have averaged 9.2 % during similar periods of recovery.

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.

These decades happened to coincide with The Great Depression and The Great Recession so you can see that in periods of very poor economic activity, bonds can act as stabilizer for your portfolio.

For the time period in question, the federal funds rate was low (by historic standards), leading the Fed to dismiss the yield curve's «prediction» of recession.

Political Calculations offers a tool for finding the likelihood of a recession occurring in the U.S. within a future twelve month period based upon Wright's work.

In a nutshell, Wright finds that the two factors of yield curve inversion and the federal funds rate may be used together to better predict the likelihood of a recession occurring within a future twelve - month period.

They are the maximum and minimum effective federal funds rates in any given month spanning from 6 months before the recession began to 6 months after the recession ended, with only one exception: the end period extends to only the official end of the 1980 recession in July of 1980, and not 6 months afterwards, because rates began rising afterwards and including those months would have made the drop appear larger than it actually was.

The fact is the global economy has never recovered from the 2008 - 2009 recession and, as predicted by the IMF, is now entering a period of «mediocre» or «stagnant» growth.

The graph shows that international markets typically trail the US market during periods where that market's economy is in recession and the US economy is expanding (across the nine countries these periods make up roughly 15 percent of the data).

The next graph shows the same mix of correlation and net performance but only looks at the periods where both the US and each country have been in recession.

This data implies that the benefits of international investing and diversification come predominantly during periods of global expansion, and not during bear markets induced by recessions.

In other words after almost six years the global economy has not only not recovered from the so - called great recession it appears to be entering a potentially long period of stagnating growth.

The way the story goes is that an extended period of calm with steady growth and no recessions, nothing to make you nervous, makes investors less risk - averse, so more risk taking, and not just investors, but their financial intermediaries.

The expansionary period that followed the recession in 1960 - 61, which was a result of high unemployment and a shift to foreign - made cars, was met with another sharp decline as the Fed began to tighten monetary policy.