(Because these measurement periods began in 1975, right after a major market decline, they include a few
robust recovery years.
Not exact matches
Even though the job market has been gaining steam — the unemployment rate has dropped to 6.2 % and job gains this
year have averaged a decent 230,000 each month — the
recovery isn't necessarily as
robust as it appears.
So, the statistics are unanimous: Not only was the Clinton presidency after the bill's passage a time of vigorous economic growth, but that growth was also demonstrably more
robust than what occurred during the first two and a half
years of the
recovery.
«For the last three
years, the consensus has been that the U.S. economy was on the verge of a
robust and self - sustaining
recovery that would restore above - potential growth,» Roubini wrote on Friday for the Project Syndicate website in a piece called «American Pie in the Sky.»
But 2012 was the
year he got serious about using the powers of the American central bank to engineer a
robust recovery, rather than just stave off an economic collapse.
In turn, this has allowed the Portuguese economy to become one of the biggest beneficiaries of the eurozone's
robust recovery, with the IMF forecasting 2017 could be the country's best
year of growth in more than 20
years.
The ability to stimulate more
robust neurogenesis could lead to faster healing times or perhaps even more complete
recovery of cognitive functions, a potentially life - changing prospect for the millions of people who suffer from traumatic brain injury every
year.
September 30, 2012 • Certain sectors of the state's economy are more
robust than they were four
years ago, but that doesn't mean everyone's happy with the
recovery.
The
recovery is expected to be more
robust next
year with absorption likely to double to 120 million sq. ft. in 2012.
Consumer spending has softened and there are few signs of a
robust economic
recovery this
year.
«While remodelers are continuing to struggle, we expect the rest of 2010 to be a period of stabilization for remodeling, with the first stages of
recovery emerging by the end of the
year, followed by a more
robust recovery beginning early next
year,» said NAHB Chief Economist David Crowe.
Over the past four
years, as the economic
recovery gradually took hold, the most positive view of real estate professionals — those who assessed the industry's well - being as «good to excellent» — rose from 55.9 percent (for 2013) to today's
robust 84.0 percent, while those on the fence dwindled from 41.8 percent to just 14.9 percent.
«This is not a
robust recovery, but I feel confident that we are not sitting here lingering,» says Zelman, who predicts that home prices will end the
year up about 1 percent.
«After back - to - back
years of a
robust housing
recovery, we are continuing to experience another
year of a shortage of inventory of homes for sale,» reports Phil McBride, COO of John L. Scott Real Estate in the Northwest.
Metro markets that were earliest to begin their
recoveries and that had been showing the most
robust home value appreciation throughout much of the
year, including Southern California and the Bay Area, largely cooled off in the fourth quarter.