Sentences with word «precrisis»

Given the low unemployment rate, anecdotal evidence from a variety of companies, and alternative measures such as the Atlanta Fed wage tracker showing stronger growth, wage growth may not be back at precrisis levels, but the trend over the past year shows wages are certainly headed in the right direction.

They will ask for research funding to go back to precrisis levels by 2020 and a relaxation of the accounting rules.

The crisis gave entrepreneurs with money the chance to buy assets and hire staff at a fraction of the precrisis cost.

But as of 2010, the mean and median net worth of Americans was still down 50 percent from the precrisis peak, mainly because of the decline in home values, according to Edward Wolff, an economics professor at New York University.

One of the arguments that I've made is that we had the mother of all housing bubbles, we had a vast erosion of credit standards, we had really easy money, we had the Bush tax cuts plus the Iraq war, and all that got us in the precrisis period was adequate growth.

Fed officials predicted in December that the Fed's benchmark rate would come to rest around 2.8 percent, well below its precrisis level.

«Although Bay Area home prices seem astronomical... if you adjust for inflation and mortgage rates, the «typical monthly payment» for new buyers is actually lower than it was in mid-2007, the precrisis peak in nominal home prices...»

This growth has helped bring the French economy to within 0.2 % of its precrisis peak reached in the first quarter of 2008.

Number of investors flipping homes returns to precrisis levels; big banks get back in the game Dec 28, 2016 By Kirsten Grind and Peter Rudegeair House flipping, a potent symbol of the real - estate market's excess in the run - up to the financial crisis, is once again becoming hot, fueled by a combination of skyrocketing home -LSB-...]

The housing market has made many strides in recent months with foreclosures that have fallen to precrisis levels, rising home prices that are making owners feel more confident, and existing - home sales that have risen to the pace of the early 2000s.

While this percentage has improved, it's still higher than precrisis levels, which hovered around 3 percent.