Sentences with phrase «president of the economic think»

Subsidy reform boosts revenue in India, Indonesia Phil Sharp, a former 10 - term congressman from Indiana and current president of the economic think tank Resources for the Future, said such critical examinations of energy subsidies and their broad societal effects are helpful in keeping the issue «out front» with policymakers.

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The entire trip is thought to be rankling the plans of Vice President Pence, who just remarked while in Tokyo that the U.S. is planning to implement «the toughest, most aggressive round of economic sanctions ever» on North Korea.

Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think tank, said this meeting is more serious than in past years largely because of the fallout from Brexit, which is raising concerns about Ireland's economic prospects and the future for Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.

Moody's economist Mark Zandi, who has been a big supporter of President Obama, as well as John McCain, has said he thinks Trump's economic policies would lead to a recession.

Combined with a decrease in personal income tax, a sales tax would lead to increased investment and economic diversification while capturing spending from out - of - province visitors, argued Dylan Jones, president of the Canada West Foundation, a Calgary - based think - tank.

One of President Donald Trump's top economic advisers and an architect of the GOP tax bill is thinking about leaving the White House soon, Politico reported Tuesday.

«I think they feel in Seattle they're the scapegoat every time there's an issue in the community and traffic,» said Sam Bailey, vice president of economic development at the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation, which is managing the area's bid for Amazon's second headqeconomic development at the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation, which is managing the area's bid for Amazon's second headqEconomic Development Corporation, which is managing the area's bid for Amazon's second headquarters.

«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president of research and policy at the liberal - leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.

Some economists see less potential for a trade war: «I don't think it will spiral out of control,» said Thea M. Lee, president of the Economic Policy Institute.

Phil Levy, a former senior official on President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, told me he thinks Navarro is «uniquely poorly suited» to that type of job.

«From an economic impact standpoint, I think that the future's very bright,» Geoff Freeman, the CEO and President of the American Gaming Association, said.

«I think of it as the anti- trickle down economics,» said Warner, referring to an economic theory popularized in the administration of former President Ronald Reagan.

«If we can take the asset and find good strategic partners, I think we'll better position that asset to have positive economic impact locally,» said Howard Zemsky, president and CEO of Empire State Development.

GOP strategists said they think their prospects continue to improve as voters digest the guilty verdict against former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, positive economic statistics and the prospect of Democrats taking control of one or both chambers of the legislative branch.

CROWLEY: Just to make clear before I move on, yes or no, does that mean you think the president ought to change the members of his economic team?

«It's a political argument,» said Robert Heise, president of the Minnesota Associated Builders and Contractors, an organization that represents primarily nonunion contractors and deals with PLA requirements in Duluth and St. Louis County, Minn. «I think we can win the economic argument, and maybe they think they can win the economic argument.

«At this point, I don't think anything should be off the table,» said Lourdes Zapata, senior vice president of SoBro, the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corp. [Crain's]

Elise Stefanik: At the national level, I think that what we're seeing is President Obama's failed economic policies, an overreach at the federal level in terms of regulations, higher taxes.

Added Brian McMahon, president of the New York State Economic Development Council: «I think Buffalo certainly can compete for a project like this.»

Think of these as the political equivalent of business start - ups: self - created micronations where anyone could be president of his own domain, setting up his own political and economic rules.

Its time for Congress, the president, and the new secretary of education to think boldly about the future and set new expectations for all of our nations schools using sound economic policy.

Therefore, for the next president of United States and any other country's national leaders has to think about this merging instead of dominating by force, military, economic, or any other kind of force.

«The opportunity today to visit with important thought leaders in the state legislature highlights the significance of wind in the economic development and job creation for rural America,» commented Tristan Grimbert, President & CEO, EDF Renewables.

In 1995, in what is thought to be the first conference promoting climate science denial in Britain, the CEI's then president Fred Smith joined another US guest from the Atlas Economic Research Foundation for a series of talks that undermined warnings about the impacts of fossil fuels on the climate.

As a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers in 2013 and 2014, it's something I've thought about.

«Climate change has already delivered severe economic damage and things will only get worse without more action,» said Andrew Steer, the president of the World Resources Institute, a Washington - based think tank, in a press statement.

The economy is still top - of - mind for small business owners — 53 percent think that keeping the economic recovery on track should be President Obama's top priority.

«I think retail is having the hardest time year - to - date,» says Randy Blankstein, president of Boulder Net Lease Funds in Northbrook, Ill. «There are a lot of negative factors related to the drop in consumer spending and some of the challenges for growth in that market due to the economic and housing downturn.»

It marked the first time since the end of World War II that workers made almost no progress on wages throughout an entire business cycle, says Larry Mishel, president of the liberal think tank Economic Policy Institute.