Sentences with phrase «rather than recessions»

However, given that cumulative abnormal returns increase with radicalness during an expansion but decrease with radicalness during a recession, he added, «Banks should time their launch of radical financial innovations to coincide with periods of expansion rather than recessions.»

Perhaps most striking was his suggestion that the drop in sales of video games in 2009 compared with 2008 (down 6.3 % worldwide, according to Screen Digest) might simply have been due to an inferior crop of games, rather than the recession.

Not exact matches

The result is Canada is at «some risk» of a balance sheet recession — a period of slow growth or decline caused by consumers saving and paying down debt rather than spending.

Although the industry suffered in the two years immediately following the recession, revenue began growing again in 2011 as business owners freed up capital by shifting to renting — rather than purchasing — heavy equipment.

As the nation's economy emerges from recession, many companies are adopting a more cautious bird - in - the - hand strategy - working to retain the customers they have rather than continually pursuing prospects.

She believes the current high unemployment levels are an effect of the recession, rather than of structural shifts in the economy, and that the Fed must fight joblessness before dislocated workers become permanently detached from the labour force.

It also mentioned that governments might be inclined to organise referenda to counteract the «perception that the EU is an «elite - driven» project,» as it notes that notion has been lingering since the start of the recession as «voters increasingly associat [e] the EU project with austerity, rather than a source of union and prosperity.»

In a deeper recession, marketers can benefit by cleaning up their product lines and so should seize the initiative early rather than waiting to be forced into making changes.

While it is tax free, I'd much rather buy a 4 % dividend yield over 30 diversified companies that should grow the dividend and appreciate over time than rely on California, Illinois, etc to pay their bills, especially in the next recession.

Declines in this measure have presaged recession half of the time and uniformly been followed by rate reductions rather than rate increases.

As Paul Krugman has written, the common models used to forecast potential GDP take it for granted that if an economy doesn't bounce back quickly from a recession, it's because something has been fundamentally damaged, rather than because the government offered up an insufficient policy response.

Or, will businesses be hampered by labor and skill shortages, resulting in a growth slowdown or even a recession sooner rather than later?

These results suggest that rather than lowering the opportunity cost of having children, recessions create the economic uncertainty that makes those about to undertake breeding much more skittish and therefore more likely to postpone childbearing.

Not only is that not true — as it is a reflection of Fed policy rather than economic fundamentals — certain sectors like capital spending and manufacturing are in recession already.

This could include setting targets for nominal GDP growth rather than inflation, investing in a wider range of risk assets, making plans to allow base rates to turn negative, and underscoring the importance of avoiding a new recession.

Absent this legislation, next year's budget deficit would total about $ 440 billion (2.1 percent of Gross Domestic Product)-- the lowest since before the Great Recession — rather than $ 981 billion (4.6 percent of GDP) as CBO projects.

For the next recession, I plan to attack it with a goal to benefit from the recession, rather than take it lying down.

Bank of America argues that the curve, using swaps rather than treasuries and adjusted for the zero - bound effect, is already inverted and therefore may already be signalling a recession in the United States.

-- Said the Fed needs to keep slowly raising rates, rather than waiting until inflation hits its 2 percent target, to avoid a «boom - bust» economy whereby it might eventually have to tighten so aggressively as to tip the economy into recession.

And the further the recession slips into the past, the more this change looks driven by demographics rather than just economic distress.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

that isn't because I necessarily totally buy into the Friedman ans Schwartz explanation for why the slowdown of 1929 turned into a Great Depression rather than a sharp recession.

Rather than giving way to a resumption of growth, the Great Recession shows every sign of turning instead into a Long Slump.

They might not even have grasped its significance, as the first reference (there were three) was about the recession faced by «much of Europe» rather than Britain by itself.

That way the election takes place in the glow of the improvement rather than the darkness of the recession.

In terms of our collective understanding of economics and how to fight recessions, I think there's actually a lot less here than meets the eye, and indeed a lot of rather meaningless talk.

The government claimed that the recession was a national phenomenon rather than a global one, and still it refuses to mention the banks at all in its analysis of what caused the financial crisis.

He concluded with a waspish idea: if so much money was available, why not cut basic rate income tax by 2p to reduce the burden of recession at home rather than giving away unmanageable amounts of aid abroad?

Citing a recent paper by Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, and Peter Orszag of the Brookings Institution, the groups reminded Governor Pataki that cutting state and local services during a recession will make the situation worse rather than better.

In the teeth of the worst recession in decades, more than one - third of the over 6,800 teachers hired in 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession with test prep rather than real education.

In contrast, Ed Balls» analysis was that Labour needed to focus exclusively on Tory responsibility for the recession rather than starting a political conversation about Labour's spending plans, and what it had got wrong in the past.

These changes were also seen to impact particularly on women and those less educated, with the authors suggesting that uncertainty and negative expectations generated by the recession rather than unemployment might explain the changes seen.

Wilkinson noted that her study — which included individuals from ages 51 to 96 — differs from many others on the Great Recession because «financial strain» is a subjective measure that was based on self - reporting rather than on economic indicators.

Luxury Brands Must Develop Their Customer Experience To Survive (Huffington Post) «Luxury retailers must focus on providing a rounded customer experience, rather than simply flogging goods, if they are to survive the ongoing recession.

Though it isn't the first time that the recession has been used as the backdrop of a movie, director J.C. Chandor at least makes his story unique by focusing on the cause of the crash rather than the aftereffects.

Because recessions may affect student outcomes through channels other than school budgets (such as parental employment or neighborhood crime), the Shores and Steinberg result likely reflects all ill - effects of the recession rather than those through reduced per - pupil spending per se.

States disproportionately relied on spending cuts to close their large budget shortfalls after the recession hit, rather than a more balanced mix of spending cuts and revenue increases.

New Jersey school districts» funding and expenditure were cut sharply following the recession and, rather than recovering, the gap between prerecession expectation and the reality has grown steadily.

He raised taxes at a time when the average family was near or in starvation mode, he confiscated all of the nation's privately - owned gold and then promptly devalued the dollar by 40 % (reducing the buying power of any saved dollars by almost half overnight), he raised bank reserve requirements numerous times (taking yet more cash out of the real economy so it could be hoarded in vaults), he actively supported a trade war with tariffs that created massive global imbalances (some would argue ushering in the rise to power of fascist regimes that would have had no chance in times of prosperity), and perhaps most damning, rather than plowing most of those raised tax dollars back into the stalled economy, he instead bought gold on the global markets for the government and sequestered it, keeping it from backing new dollars (monetary expansion, which most understand is required to turn a recession around) and instead further crushing the economy — and not just the US economy.

With this on - going recession and low bank interest rates, I would rather pay my house which I have rented out than put my money in risky investments.

At the time, a Chase spokesperson noted that after the recession borrowers were much more inclined to take out student loans from the federal government rather than private lenders.

The fact that oil prices represented a supply story rather than weak demand did not stop many from hitting the recession panic button.

Well, from the recession I've learned that investing in some sort of car REPAIR rather than manufacture of new cars can pay off big.

Auto parts stores have done well during the recession, as people keep their old cars running longer, rather than buying new.

If you want to better understand why the real estate bubble bust and the crash of the dollar will probably lead to a prolonged recession, you may want to read this book sooner rather than later.

Good, but your prior policies fostered debt - based finance, because recessions were never allowed to get too deep, and businessmen rationally chose to finance with cheaper tax - deductible debt, rather than expensive equity, because they concluded that the Fed would not allow big crises to happen.

The result is Canada is at «some risk» of a balance sheet recession — a period of slow growth or decline caused by consumers saving and paying down debt rather than spending.

A Recessionary Assist Although the Great Recession certainly gave them pause, rather than hunkering down, the owners of Pet Express looked at it as an opportunity for growth.

Considering the fact that some experts expect this recession to last for up to four years, we have a feeling news like these will increase rather than decrease.

This method, relying on email rather than a studio visit, just might constitute the sweetest glass of lemonade you could possibly squeeze from recession - time lemons.