Sentences with phrase «pricing policies drive»

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While housing policy was crafted to ensure Canadians had equal opportunity to purchase a home, runaway prices are driving a wedge between those who can afford to and those who can't.

This fundamental shift will reshape urban transportation, and is being driven by changes in the regulation, pricing, and workforce policies of ride - hailing services.

Rudy Giuliani, for one, seems to think that given a tax deduction, a lot of people insured through their workplace will shift to private policies on principle, sucking up the extra cost at first, but ultimately driving the price down so the uninsured can eventually buy in.

Price structures are often influenced by two factors: cost - plus (maintaining prices at a level that exceeds product costs by a certain margin) or opting to follow the market leader's price structure and being completely driven by its poPrice structures are often influenced by two factors: cost - plus (maintaining prices at a level that exceeds product costs by a certain margin) or opting to follow the market leader's price structure and being completely driven by its poprice structure and being completely driven by its policy.

I notice that TAU's two official reasons are: 1) insufficient market for CO2, and 2) lack of a high enough policy - driven carbon price.

If the Dragon doesn't breathe fire into markets, it may be a shot of liquidity injected by policy easing that could drive stock prices higher.

It is certainly reasonable to believe that this source of UST selling will continue to keep USTS rallies «limp,» and still in front of a very pro-growth / reflationary Trump policy mix to come: lower corporate and individual taxes, industry deregulation, trade policy (tariffs will drive up domestic prices as cheaper international goods competition is removed) and a fiscal policy shift away from monetary policy will all conspire to take rates higher in the year + window ahead.

Lastly, as noted in BCA's 2014 outlook report: In a liquidity trap, where interest rates reach the zero boundary, the linkage between monetary policy and the real economy is asset markets: zero short rates act to subsidize corporate profits, drive up asset prices and encourage risk - taking.

Monetary policy can drive up asset prices and create a bubble, Mr. Stiglitz said in an interview, «but consumption isn't going to go up.

Monetary policy may have reached the limits of its effectiveness in driving asset prices.

In this new age of fiat money, credit growth drives economic growth, liquidity determines the direction of asset prices and the government controls both through aggressive policy intervention.

«Animal spirits» might be driving gold prices higher, but so might central bank policies that are contributing to (or at least failing to control) economic uncertainty and instability.

«It seems reasonable to assume that another year of extreme moves in US dollar (higher) and oil / commodity prices (lower) would likely continue to drive this negative feedback loop and make it very difficult for policy makers in emerging markets and developing markets to fight disinflationary forces and intercept downside risks,» the analysts add.

Newsflash: Farmers — no matter where they are from — do not benefit from policies like the TPP that encourage oversupply and drive milk prices down.

Until we change our game style, formation, players that are not good enough, spending policy so that we buy in all the positions we need, not just one, buy players with characters, driven by success with lots of titles behind them, change our ambition to titles, not fourth, reduce immense ticket prices, stop being a business rather than a football club, introduce younger members to the board or unbelievably somehow change the manager, I will not be convinced.

Commenting on the findings of this report, IAS Chief Executive Katherine Brown said: «The desire to support pubs has often been used as a reason to resist policies to reduce alcohol - related harm, including minimum unit pricing, increasing alcohol taxes and stricter drink - drive laws.

Many fail to realise that the UK has driven multiple progressive policies aimed at improving the health of the population, whether plain packaging for cigarettes, minimum pricing units for alcohol, or the most recent sugar tax.

«The private housing sector is being driven by recovery in the wider economy and the impacts of policies including Help to Buy, which have driven both house prices and house building.

The Lib Dem policy of introducing road pricing has been rejected, and replaced by reductions and freezes in fuel prices, driven by Rob Halfon.

Evidence shows that the most effective policies to reduce alcohol harms, including harms to others, are: - Raising the price of the cheapest alcohol, through taxation and minimum unit pricing - Regulating the density of outlets that can serve alcohol and restricting the permitted hours of sale - drink driving laws, including a lower legal blood alcohol limit and random roadside breath tests - Screening and brief advice for people who are at risk of drinking to a level that is harmful to themselves and others However, the most effective approach is a comprehensive, multi-sectorial set of measures that work together to reduce levels of harmful drinking.

Too - strict regulations might limit patient access to the drug by driving prices up, said Julie Netherland, deputy state director of the Drug Policy Alliance.

However, Labour's shadow housing secretary John Healey said the Government's policy on stamp duty would just drive up prices.

Incorporating a pricing mechanism into our climate policy would likely be more efficient at driving down greenhouse gas emissions at a lower cost than the current policy of regulating such emissions under the Clean Air Act.

For the past decade, Bach has immersed himself in health policy and economics to decipher and publicize what's driving these high prices.

There was also the optimism that policy would drive the technology, that there would be a price on carbon [a carbon tax], that there would be a logical path toward making these ideas happen.

or a used car and asked to get the final price over phone because they were 40 minutes drive from my place, the girl who answered was from the new cars department and she said its a company's policy not discuss or disclose any price over the phone and if I come there they will be happy to negotiate and see what we can agree on, after driving for 40 min I had one of their salesmen jumping to offer and work with me on the car, I told him I need to buy the car and am looking to get more discount on the price.

From our accommodating test drives to our innovative pre-owned exchange policy and value pricing on every vehicle and full day Saturday service to long - term automotive pampering you've always dreamed of, at McFarland Ford you'll be glad you chose THE REAL DEAL.Reviews: * Comfortable ride, simple controls, quiet cabin.

Thematic chapters focus on critical policy debates and on key driving forces, notably ebook bestsellers and pricing strategies across European markets, self - publishing, regulation, piracy, and the expanding activities of the leading global players such as Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google, and Kobo.

More data is always good, but, taken as a package, the message from the Conservatives has been: «Foreigners are to blame for driving up house prices, so vote for us and our other policies will drive up house prices.»

Essentially, it's the divergence between monetary policies that is driving the price action.

But as the Fed retreats from its loose monetary policy, interest rates could climb, driving down the price of existing bonds.

The Fed's policy of low interest rates has enabled such companies to refinance their debt more cheaply, often driving up their share prices.

Our forecasts and hence policy are becoming increasingly driven by asset price changes.

Telematics is a type of motor insurance policy which prices your premiums depending on how you drive.

This feature drives competitive pricing of various policies and therefore compared to cash value plans, these are cheaper.

Most whole life policies also have commissions and fees attached by the underwriter, which drives up the price of these types of policies.

Gains in the Carry strategy were driven by a long position in the New Zealand dollar which appreciated as commodity export prices recovered, and a short position in the Swedish krona which depreciated on account of a dovish policy stance by the central bank, despite a stream of positive economic data.

Grave concern about the deep - discounting strategies online retailers use to capture market share is driving a growing number of independent retailers to demand fair pricing policies from pet food manufacturers.

That's their bread and butter customer, and MAP and MRP policies on the part of manufacturers help to level the playing field and protect those retailers against the type of unfair price competitiveness that is largely driven by online sellers.

There are many advantages of leaving your booking for Sydney short term accommodation to the last minute but this policy can be fraught with danger for the visitor who may not know what drives hotel pricing... and therefore the availability of a bargain that may result from a last minute booking.

On the other hand, Mega Drive is way more popular than SFC there, mostly because of Nintendo's insane pricing policy.

There are hosts of experiments under way, some, like a Green Mobility Network around Miami, Florida, driven by communities, others by elected officials (e.g., London's congestion pricing and New York City's babysteps toward such a policy).

The goal of the paper I have just written is to «restart» the discussion of climate change, which, as I see it, is on the verge of disappearing from view, putting into cold storage both 1) the policy initiatives like carbon prices and regulations that could have short - term impact on wedge technologies like conventional renewables, efficiency, and CCS, and 2) commitments to the advancement of a climate - change - driven research frontier.

It turns out that for the past 3 decades, we've had a George Costanza Energy policy — every decision we have made as a country has worked to drive energy prices higher.

Second, federal energy innovation policy should be structured to drive down the price of clean energy technologies as quickly as possible, which this report doesn't address.

Gary Yohe, an environmental economist at Wesleyan University, is one of a large group of veteran students of the climate - energy challenge who say the persistent uncertainties surrounding human - driven warming are the reason to act, to act promptly, and to include a rising price on emissions of greenhouse gases in any policy mix.

There's been a lot of talk lately about the food crisis, and particularly linking it to growing crops for biofuels (a highly inefficient process which seems to drive prices up, particularly in US policy), but Frances More Lappe argued in her books several years ago that there is, in fact, enough food on the planet to feed us all, but localized political troubles (grain rotting in Haitian ports), increasing desertification, food waste, and problems with global supply chains are better explanations for why so many go hungry.

The electricity industry already is — and has been for years — in a rapid transition away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Clean Power Plan.

Power companies are well on their way to meet the Plan's targets, thanks to the fact that the electricity industry has already started rapidly moving away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Plan.

Every few years, New York University's Institute for Policy Integrity surveys economists who have expertise on climate change, and it always finds overwhelming support for putting a price on carbon to drive down emissions — support that ideologues on the right routinely dismiss, usually on unfounded «economic» grounds.