Sentences with phrase «policy crisis for»

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The end of the money - for - nothing policy that the world's central banks put in place after the 2008 financial crisis is nearly in sight.

Valdis Dombrovskis, vice-president of the European Commission, said that the EU should not wait for another crisis to deepen economic and monetary policies to strengthen the resilience of the euro area.

With unemployment falling steadily through the year, there has been less justification for crisis - era policy, and a sense among policymakers that they could balance the higher rates sought by «hawks» with a slow pace of subsequent increases.

Eight years after a devastating recession opened an era of loose U.S. monetary policy, the Federal Reserve was set on Wednesday to raise rates for the first time since 2006, in a sign the world's largest economy had overcome most of the wounds of the global financial crisis.

«Thanks in part to the forceful response to the crisis and policies throughout the eight years of the Obama administration to promote robust, shared growth, the US economy is stronger, more resilient, and better positioned for the twenty - first century than ever before,» the White House said in an email after the jobs report.

«It only buys time for policy - makers to implement the tough measures needed to resolve the crisis.»

«Historians will look at the president's handling of the financial crisis, and he will get stellar marks,» says Jim Kessler, senior vice president for policy and co-founder of Third Way, a think tank.

Emerging markets also account for over 50 % of world GDP, and have been responsible for the lion's share of global growth ever since the 2008 financial crisis, but capital has flooded out of them as the Federal Reserve has tightened its monetary policy and the limits of China's economic model have become apparent.

He comes to the position amid a critical time for the Fed, which is normalizing policy after years of extraordinary accommodation triggered by the financial crisis.

One factor keeping premiums down is the financial crisis, which reduced overall demand for health care policies, Meyerhoefer says.

«Perhaps most salient for monetary policy, it appears increasingly clear that the neutral rate of interest remains considerably and persistently lower than it was before the crisis.»

«Perhaps most salient for monetary policy, it appears increasingly clear that the neutral rate of interest remains considerably and persistently lower than it was before the crisis,» she said.

To help educate the masses and push for regulatory acceptance, Airbnb recently hired Chris Lehane, a former White House crisis manager, as its global policy chief.

Richard J. Reddick, associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas, writes for Fortune that some people of color might be cynical about Starbucks» response to the crisis that was precipitated by a store manager calling the cops on two black men sitting at a table (after a mere couple of minutes of them not buying anything.)

Part of what has supported this recovery since the crisis has been fiscal policy, so we have much higher government debt than we had before, where is the room for governments to do fiscal expansion in a renewed downturn?

The housing bubble in the United States, which triggered the financial crisis in 2008, had highlighted the danger of using the financial system to make up for the failures in social policies.

This book is the best treatment we have of the historical dimensions of our current health care crisis and will prove to be an indispensable resource for historians and policy makers.»

In the post-financial crisis world, however, new realities pose significant challenges for the conduct of monetary policy.

After this brutal wakeup call, economists went back and re-examined the possible role monetary policy plays in setting the stage for crises.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers attacked the policy proposals of Donald Trump on several fronts Sunday, saying the president - elect's plans for deregulation were setting the stage for the next financial crisis.

The financial crisis of 2008 - 09 and the recession it caused didn't do much for the reputations of many policy makers around the world, but they've been quite good for the careers of Stephen Harper and Mark Carney:

Alan Greenspan was known as adept at gaining consensus among Fed board members on policy issues and for serving during one of the most severe economic crises of the late 20th century, the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1987.

Concerns about global trade tensions between China and the U.S. and the fear that the stellar earnings could be as good as it gets for stocks are all combining to undermine the sort of confidence that was in abundance during last year's run of repeated records for equity benchmarks, as the U.S. economy enters it ninth year of expansion and as the Federal Reserve moves to normalize monetary policy from crisis - era levels.

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The Bank of Canada is applying lessons from the global financial crisis as it updates its framework for the use of unconventional monetary policy measures, Governor Stephen S. Poloz said.

By the same token, an immediate rise in our policy rate back to, for example, the 4.25 per cent that prevailed before the financial crisis would represent an extreme tightening of policy and would have significant consequences.

For example, during the first flare - up of the European sovereign crisis back in 2011 (when Greece really did hold systemic risk potential) and when U.S. political discord led to significant fiscal tightening, the Fed offset both of these with even greater policy accommodation.

Monetary policy — which has been a boon for stocks since the financial crisis — also remains loose compared with historical standards.

The IMF says the reason for the debt build - up is the economic collapse during the 2008 financial crisis, and the policy response to that crisis.

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While base rates kept at or close to zero for almost seven years and three massive asset - buying programs by the Fed have undoubtedly helped stabilize the US (and world) economy during and after the recession that followed the global financial crisis, the continuation of expansionary monetary policies is now supporting a growing excess of global liquidity that has been distorting the market signals sent by stock and bond prices and thus contributing to the growing volatility seen in recent weeks.

For three - straight years — between 2014 and 2016 — the greenback surged higher as the Fed ended «QE3,» the stimulus program that had the U.S. central bank buying as much as $ 85 billion worth of government bonds per month, and did away with the zero - interest - rate policy that was in place since the financial crisis.

The minutes from the Federal Reserve's January meeting showed that policy makers argued for keeping interest rates near record lows for longer due to both the stronger dollar and the crisis in Greece.

But even if the ECB does bend to the will of the bond markets this year, and begins to buy sovereign debt directly, the single currency is left with all of the same weaknesses that existed prior to the crisis: the inability to tailor interest rate policy for each individual economy, the lack of foreign currency adjustment needed to offset differences in competitiveness, and growth - limiting trade dynamics throughout the area.

Option (e) remains extremely risky given the massive levels of outstanding government debt (and potential for fiscal crisis) and therefore low in probability in our view, but the idea came to the fore in investor consciousness after the BOJ held meetings with former FOMC Chairman Bernanke, credited for applying the idea of «helicopter money» to deflation - fighting in central bank policy.

The Federal Reserve has pursued a zero interest rate policy as a mechanism for pulling the US out of the financial crisis.

To the extent that the policy may be up for a rethink, pension schemes in crisis seems a likely motivation.

He says it was then that it was becoming clearer to more and more investors that the world's central banks» responses to the 2007 — 08 global financial crisis were not effective in improving economic activity and that their policies should be ultimately positive for gold prices.

The Financial Repression Authority (FRA) educates investors, funds and retirees on the adverse risks resulting from good - intentioned macroprudential central bank and government policies and regulations focused on controlling excessive government debt, attempting to stimulate economic growth, and minimizing the potential for financial and economic crises.

And he explains how he and other policy makers such as Treasury Secretaries Henry Paulson and Tim Geithner groped for approaches that would first stop the crisis, and eventually push the US economy back to growth.

There is still a tendency, as there was prior to the crisis, for financial stability and monetary policy work in central banks to be organised in separate silos.

In a dramatic policy turnaround for the IMF, Strauss - Kahn told the Davos audience, «I don't think we would get rid of the crisis with just monetary tools,» adding «a new fiscal policy is probably an accurate way to answer the question.»

The lack of holdovers, amid a pivotal shift away from crisis - era policies, could make for a bumpy transition.

argues that the lessons of the crash have still not been learned by the economic policy mainstream, and that a new crisis looms for some highly indebted countries, including Canada.

He also offered a similar warning in July, citing the potential for a policy mistake by the Federal Reserve as it looks to normalize interest rates from ultralow levels in the wake of the 2007 - 09 financial crisis.

For starters, China is about to experience a massive crisis in caring for its elderly — a task traditionally undertaken in Chinese culture by one's children, but impossible when there aren't enough children to do the job, Moreover, the pampered survivors of the one - child policy, often referred to as the «little emperor generation,» aren't going to easily forget that it's all about me as they face the challenge of inter-generational responsibiliFor starters, China is about to experience a massive crisis in caring for its elderly — a task traditionally undertaken in Chinese culture by one's children, but impossible when there aren't enough children to do the job, Moreover, the pampered survivors of the one - child policy, often referred to as the «little emperor generation,» aren't going to easily forget that it's all about me as they face the challenge of inter-generational responsibilifor its elderly — a task traditionally undertaken in Chinese culture by one's children, but impossible when there aren't enough children to do the job, Moreover, the pampered survivors of the one - child policy, often referred to as the «little emperor generation,» aren't going to easily forget that it's all about me as they face the challenge of inter-generational responsibility.

Conservative candidate for Aylesbury, David Lidington, said: «Whether you look at Ebola and our response to that, whether you look at the # 2.3 billion that was allocated to humanitarian relief in the Syrian refugee crisis, I think the Conservative Party can say that we've got a good track record on delivering practical policies with that clear ethical foundation.»

She has been arrested 30 times for intentionally creating crises, i.e., situations that force the powers that are — transnational corporations, the media, security forces, consumers — to cease doing business as usual, examine the inequities that they may be perpetuating, and change policies.

The Right has no worry as to what devastation their policies will cause... their money insulates them from crisis, from illness (need of healthcare),,,, as one blogger who went to the convention said... their lives will not change at all, they will go to the same country clubs, their children will attend the same ivy league schools, they have money for all necessities, etc..

They were killed because they supported the liberating theology and dignity of the base Christian communities; they named social injustice, not communism or outside subversive influence, as the root cause of the crisis (revolution in their view was inevitable unless issues of poverty and social inequality were adequately addressed); they promoted a negotiated settlement to Salvador's civil war, including a significant role for the FMLN and other popular organizations; and, they named U.S. policy as a fundamental obstacle to peace in El Salvador.