Sentences with phrase «points of crisis in»

From there, he sought to dissect this characterization and, as Iftikhar Dadi has written in his essay «Calligraphic Abstraction: Anwar Jalal Shemza,» he brought «the dangerous question of ornament and its relation to modernism» to a point of crisis in his work.

Not exact matches

In the face of crisis or danger or even gross incompetence, they remain steely - eyed, focused, and on point.

That would be the biggest one - day slump in stock market history, by more than double, besting the 777 point plunge that happened on October 29, 2008, at the high of the panic surrounding the financial crisis.

In the years ahead of the financial crisis, Alan Greenspan, the former Fed chairman, systematically raised the benchmark rate a quarter point every time he gathered the Federal Open Market Committee.

As the New York Times pointed out on Tuesday, there have been seven events since the economic crisis of 2009 where the S&P 500 has fallen five percent in the course of a week.

You might be surprised to know that the business world was strongly in favor of profit sharing at many points in American history, typically when the concentration of wealth was a major public worry or the country was trying to come together after a crisis.

From the point of view of society, Japan is going to come out ahead in the next crisis.

So let me just point out that the growth of the population of companies slowed dramatically in a number of countries in the wake of the global financial crisis.

He pointed out that the failure of two or three such institutions would put us in «Lehman Brothers territory,» referring to the investment bank that filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, precipitating the financial crisis.

In fact there is a regular pattern that we see when debt levels rise in a country to the point at which either we suffer from a debt crisis or from a lost decade of difficult adjustmenIn fact there is a regular pattern that we see when debt levels rise in a country to the point at which either we suffer from a debt crisis or from a lost decade of difficult adjustmenin a country to the point at which either we suffer from a debt crisis or from a lost decade of difficult adjustment.

My argument is that a significant part of the strong productivity performance in the two decades before the crisis was due to globalization, and that the globalization process may have brought trade in the global economy to a new balancing point.

Quick answer: no, as the European Central Bank, which has an inate fear of inflation, felt compelled on Thursday by the economic crisis in Europe to cut its benchmark interest rates by 0.25 percentage points, bringing the refinancing rate to a record low of 0.75 % and the overnight deposit rate to zero.

Bill Gross thinks conditions are ripe for a significant liquidity crisis in the markets, and he points a finger at his old firm for its potential to be at the center of the storm.

The problem of tax evasion in Greece has been pointed out many times during the debt crisis: Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, got into hot water over the summer with her comments that she felt more sympathy with children in Africa than tax evaders in Greece.

You can see at the moment we're sitting at around $ 2 billion but at one point in time we were up at over $ 16 billion and that was in the middle of the financial crisis.

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company's life cycle.

The case has a David and Goliath element, pointing to controversy involving big banks and their role in an ongoing home foreclosure crisis and a stalled recovery of the feeble real estate market.

It's important to point out that successful management of the debt crisis in Europe and the avoidance of significant tax increases next year in the U.S. are important assumptions in our forecast.

Michael Hewson, Senior Market Analyst at CMC Markets in London, says Carney has gained a lot of «brownie points» for his handling of the financial crisis, given that Canada was the only G7 country that did not have to receive a banking bailout during the financial crisis that started in 2008.

In recent months, the yield on US corporate bonds, especially investment - grade securities, is a little more than 100 basis points compared to the yield on government debt, dropping within striking distance of the lows seen post the 2008 financial crisis.

To explain, I point out that if the Fed had done nothing in response to the bust of 2000 - 2002 then there would have been a severe recession, but the economy would probably have made a full recovery by 2004 and there would have been no mortgage - credit / housing - investment bubble and therefore no 2007 - 2008 crisis.

The 10 - year swap spread in the United States, for example, has increased in 2000 by about 50 basis points, to a level higher than at the time of disruptions in markets during the LTCM crisis in 1998.

This is obviously a large simplification, but we are merely trying to make the point that changes in fears over the PIIGS and the subsequent «Eurozone debt crisis premium» is more like changing the intercept of the gold bull market trend than the gradient.

Finally, I feel it would be irresponsible for me not to point out that there are schools of thought (ones that are becoming somewhat more prominent in light of the financial crisis) that do not accept a lot of the limits and boundaries of neoclassical economics.

This is a percentage point lower than average potential growth in the decade prior to the crisis... We estimate that the real neutral policy rate is currently in the range of 1 to 2 per cent... This translates into a nominal neutral policy rate of 3 to 4 per cent, down from a range of 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 per cent in the period prior to the crisis.»

Currently, in the Euro Zone ex UK, the equity risk premium is already above levels seen in the European debt crisis in 2011 and closing in on the 2009 highs of close to 900 basis points.

Then on Tuesday, at press briefing in San Juan, he again pointed to the figure of 16 deaths to downplay the crisis on the island.

Before the 2008 crisis, the spread began to rise in August 2007, when it jumped from 10 basis points to 100 basis points by the end of September.

The bankruptcy was a turning point in the 2008 crisis, which was precipitated by the collapse of the housing bubble.

Since March 2009, the S&P 500 Index has had a total return of approximately 250 %, driven by two primary factors: First, super-easy global monetary policy in the wake of the banking crisis, which drove down returns on safe assets to the point where risky assets became a much more compelling proposition than is typical.

The study shows a steady decline since 1997 when it was at 13 percent and, predictably, it dropped to its lowest point of 6 percent in 2008 at the beginning of the financial crisis.

The critical point of behavior control, in effect, is sneaking up on mankind without his self - conscious realization that a crisis is at hand.

Just as the emergence of reflection was a crucial moment, a breaking point in the world of instinct, so religious belief is a unique event of ultimate import, a breaking point and crisis in human rational experience and history, both individually and collectively.

The other side of this is whether Milbank can do justice to the particularities of history, such as the practice and teaching of Jesus in its Jewish context, and the complexity of crises, conflicts and points of tension.

Rites of passage arise around various transition points in the life cycle that, if unaddressed, may lead to crises for individuals and the group of which they are a part.

As evangelicalism in the U.S. has been working its way through something of an identity crisis over the past few years, and as many young evangelicals like myself have reconnected with the spiritual disciplines, this seems to be a recurring point of contention, and therefore one that should be addressed.

And it tells me that, not only has their myopia caused them to have missed the point of Jesus entirely, it's also regularly causing them to miss real crises in the Church.

Matters came to crisis point a year ago when the last government's Children, Schools & Family Bill sought to impose a statutory sex and relationship education (SRE) curriculum on all schools from the primary stage (currently SRE is only compulsory in secondary schools and the content can be determined by each school) and to remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from inappropriate SRE lessons from the age of 15.

But in point of fact Bultmann's theology helped to keep many individuals within the great tradition of faith in the eternal God, the God revealed in the crisis of the gospel of Christ; for in the jargon, although his work was to «demythologize,» he refused to «dekerygmatize.»

The genius of Britain, discovered both in the internal relations of the home country and in the various parts of its actual Empire, is a curiously flexible method for the changing of the status quo — a method which prevented crises from reaching the desperation point, ensured the gradual development of liberty, and provided a model of the kind of change which is just in time to anticipate the resort to violence.

Every American is implicated in the environmental crisis — there are plenty of other indulgences we could point at in our own lives, from living in oversized houses to boarding jets on a whim.

At least, it is in a mood of anguish that I shall try to point to a few failures of nerve — some of them my own — in the crisis of our day.

Although it has rightly been pointed out that the emerging period was a period of crisis in mission, it was also a period of creative thinking.

As Christopher Lasch also points out, new therapies» solutions are tautological, self - defeating to the extent that they advise people «not to make too large an investment in love and friendship, to avoid excessive independence on others, and to live for the moment — the very conditions that created the crisis of personal relations in the first place» (New York Review of Books [September 30, 1976]-RRB-.

Something like that is the point of Lewis's sermon «Learning in War - Time,» a sermon preached in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin on the evening of Sunday, October 22, 1939 — when people in England had a genuine crisis, very much out of the ordinary, on their hands.

But this is precisely the central point of the current crisis in narrative vision.

We're in an energy crisis, stupid religions are fighting each other, men are so afraid of women in other countries having any kind of personal freedom, people are starving, the world is becoming over-populated to the point where it simply can not support itself, and you prefer to sit around and argue this stuff instead.

As pointed out in Chapter 3, a key factor in the successful resolution of the intimacy crisis is the possession of a firm sense of personal identity as a foundation for intimate relationships.

Those who are doubtful point to the deepening misery of the poor, the loss of traditional values and community relationships, the looming ecological crises, and the structural dependence of prosperity on decisions made in financial centers in other parts of the world.

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.