Sentences with phrase «race to the bottom for»

A key question for passive investors is whether the current race to the bottom for management fees eventually runs headlong into the old adage «you get what you pay for.»

The internet has reduced many of the traditional barriers to entry that protect companies from competition and created a race to the bottom for prices in a number of categories.

It is in corporate CEO interest to keep racing to the bottom for labor, so those jobs aren't coming back here until we're living a third - world lifestyle and will accept a dollar a day as a wage.

This GOP race to the bottom for them is just the lesser of two or three, if you're a change - up con artist Newt fan.

Many publishers in the U.S. live in fear of the commoditization of ebooks and view subscription as the catalyst in a price race to the bottom for their titles.

«It's a race to the bottom for pricing.

Lately, there has not only been a race to the bottom for airfares, but also how little luggage you are allowed to bring onboard without having to pay for it!

Not exact matches

Another reason you can't win a race to the bottom is that for many consumers, even «free» isn't cheap enough.

With so many U.S. corporations racing to the bottom — moving manufacturing to foreign countries for cheap labor and no environmental responsibility, taking advantage of the H1 - B Visa program to bring cheap workers in, lowering benefits and eliminating pension plans — it's refreshing to learn that some companies are taking the exact opposite approach.

At bottom, artificial intelligence is the creation of a race, after all — a race of living breathing tin men, or, more to the point, a creation that can later do the creation for us.

That's no longer the case, for two reasons: hardware has become commoditized, with high - volume, low - margin producers racing each other to the bottom; and features are increasingly coming from upgradeable software, which extends the life of devices.

«In a campaign cycle that has been nothing but a race to the bottom — at such a critical moment for our nation — and with so many who have tried to be respectful of a record primary vote, the time has come for Governor Pence to lead the ticket,» Huntsman told the Salt Lake Tribune.

The conundrum for retailers is that they can hardly stand idly by when the competition is trotting out bigger discounts than ever, earlier than ever, worsening a race to the bottom that has bedeviled retailers for years, and clearly continues to.

Race to the bottom: A term for dog - eat - dog competition by which countries compete by cutting wage levels so as to produce in the cheapest market, not by raising wages and labor productivity.

The absence of proper consumer protection was a major contributing factor to the present financial meltdown, for «it has now become clear that abrogating sound state laws, particularly regarding consumer protection, created opportunity for regulatory arbitrage that resulted in a regulatory «race - to - the - bottom.

But for the cities that made the cut, the race to the bottom may only be beginning.

«Secondly, we are not at all interested in participating in a race to the bottom in regards to competing with financial incentives that are not viable for this community.»

Just five months ago, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty publicly scolded both BMO and Manulife Financial for offering mortgages he deemed irresponsibly cheap, advising against a «race to the bottom,» as mortgage rates sank as low as 2.89 per cent.

Furthermore, if the table showed growth figures for the past 6 months it would reveal that the EZ is now leading by a wide margin in the race to inflate (a.k.a. the race to the bottom).

It seems likely that for several generations, indeed, for the foreseeable future, the global economy will continue the current «race to the bottom,» moving production to those places where labor is cheapest and most docile.

Globalization is the era of mega-competition, in other words, the competition among giant TNCs which accelerates the race for the bottom to make TNCs acquire more profit by further exploitation of labor including lowering the wages, cutting the welfare benefits, laying off employees, depriving workers of their labor rights, using cheap labor such as casual and even child labor, and also by further destruction of environment.

(CNN)-- Even though former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, one of two Catholics in the race for the GOP nomination, was helped by an evangelical bump in Iowa on Wednesday, his support among Catholic Republicans is near the bottom of the field, according to a new Gallup survey.

Another suggestion for how the rainbow flag originated is that at college campuses during the 1960s, some people demonstrated for world peace by carrying a Flag of the Races (also called the Flag of the Human Race) with five horizontal stripes (from top to bottom they were red, black, brown, yellow, and white).

When labor is plentiful, workers must compete for jobs in a race to the bottom.

I don't see how this homegenization of standards and «race to the bottom» offers any incentive for serious improvements to exceptional ecological sustainability.

Of course, our own Hammers are still well within the mix and so there is all to play for in yet another crucial race to the bottom clash this afternoon.

It has become a yearly occurrence for the bottom of Spain's premier division to take us until the final day to find out who has the privilege of hosting Real Madrid and Barcelona again in the next campaign, usually providing much greater excitement than the title race.

As Simeone's side pushed for a second goal, Giuseppe Rossi raced away to net a dramatic last minute winner for the league's bottom side.

The «right» to a public education in this country has made schools impotent to discipline young people who have turned the education system into a race for the bottom.

The New York Democratic Committee on Monday is deriding the shifting field for the Republican gubernatorial nomination as a «soap opera» and an «amazing race to the bottom.»

The row over cladding overshadowed Hackitt's ambitious proposals for reform of building safety which she said had become a «race to the bottom».

Countries which focus on purely national strategies will create a «race to the bottom», he warned, as he emphasised the need for American leadership on crafting the framework of rules to ensure global recovery from recession.

«For him the global free market equates to a race to the bottom with the gains being shared among a smaller and smaller group of people,» said Osborne in his 2013 Tory conference speech.

A race to the bottom, where rather than empathy for people who are living in conditions most people couldn't even imagine, we shrug our shoulders and just think tough luck.

«If there is a teachable moment here it might be this: look how quickly two relatively rational political players from opposite sides with an affinity for one another raced to the bottom during these uncertain times.

Alternatively, if you follow the download link at the very bottom of that page, you can find this google spreadsheet which has what appears to be every result for every race of either national or state - wide importance.

David Davis [Minister for Leaving the EU] said the UK wanted to lead a «global race to the top» in rights and standards not, as some feared, a «competitive race to the bottom».

For him the global free market equates to a race to the bottom with the gains being shared among a smaller and smaller group of people.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo chided Jeb Bush for tweeting a photo of a handgun, saying it represents a «race to the bottom» in political campaigning.

For a long time Greens have been rejecting the race to the bottom on immigration rhetoric, and it's a shame that the other parties waited so long to make a stand.

As far as «deflating» wages of workers to race China to the bottom, there's an old saying: «You get what you pay for».

The Tories have been talking about the «global race» for a few years now — but Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt's unguarded comments have revealed that it's a global race to the bottom.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo chided on Wednesday Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush for tweeting a photo of a handgun, saying it represents a «race to the bottom» in political campaigning.

«It is time for the race to the bottom to end,» he said.

Lewis, Labour MP for Norwich South — who won his seat off Liberal Democrat Simon Wright, but whose nearest challenger in 2015 was the Conservatives — said: «The Tories» plan for Brexit is a plan for a race to the bottom which we will all lose — with weakened human rights, rampant deregulation, and a diminished Britain.

«The bottom line is the United States does not want conflict in outer space,» says Frank Rose, assistant secretary of state for arms control, verification and compliance, who has led American diplomatic efforts to prevent a space arms race.

After the researchers adjusted for age, gender, race, and BMI, they found that women who scored in the top half for weight - bias internalization were three times more likely to have metabolic syndrome that those in the bottom half.

You'll be racing your boulder down the winding maze, avoiding the obstacles your opponent is building in real time, trying to smash into their castle gate at the bottom and returning to the strategic view to place your obstacles while you wait for your boulder to be prepared.

So here's the bottom line: Emma Stone has the edge to win her first Oscar for a starring role in a Best Picture frontrunner, where she is a breath of fresh air that will blow through the Oscar race.

Many of us are starting to look at outliers in previous Oscar winners Clint Eastwood (American Sniper) and James Marsh (The Theory of Everything) to shake up the race and feed off the dying hopes for the bottom - tier vote - getters here.