Sentences with phrase «severe recession»

While the United States is still coming back from its most severe recession since the Great Depression, career opportunities for women are many and wide in scope.

«A default would likely lead to a renewed sharp economic downturn, pushing the economy back into severe recession and probably another serious banking crisis.»

Defaults always decrease during good times and skyrocket during severe recessions, so with the U.S. now at risk of falling into a recession, analysts are predicting that the default rate on junk bonds may climb to 5 % next year.

Severe recessions also struck.

If the Fed had done nothing when this new bubble inevitably burst in 2007 - 2008 then there would have been a more severe recession, but the US economy would probably have made a full recovery by 2010 or 2011.

The chart below shows just how severe that recession was when measured in U.S. dollars.

They focused on the years 1920 through 1940, a period that included the Great Depression (1930 to 1933), a couple of less severe recessions, and several years of strong economic growth.

For years they provided too much liquidity in an effort to keep severe recessions from occurring, and in the process they removed fear from the financial system, and too much leverage and bad underwriting built up.

Severe recessions do not noticeably dent the stock market's future earnings power.

«We have doubled the size of the business and more recently, delivered very resilient performance in one of the most severe recessions on record.

By Walter Starck The most critical problem we now confront is not global warming or how to tax emissions, but providing enough affordable fuel to avoid severe recession before alternative energy can become reality.

If Charles carries on with this preaching to a country experiencing perhaps its most severe recession ever, while sitting on top of a massive stack of cash, he is likely to become an inconvenient monarch.

Besides listing obvious information such as revenues and assets, Weiss also evaluates the riskiness of various types of insurer investments, then draws conclusions about the insurer's current level of financial strength as well as its ability to withstand a severe recession.

While the probability of a trigger, such as a severe recession, remains low, the bank said the severity of such an event has increased since its December assessment.

Growth might have accelerated a bit in the fourth quarter, says Bloom, but it was still at 2 % for the year, woefully below the 5 % pace you'd expect in an economy bouncing back from a severe recession.

Despite a severe recession and modest recovery, real wage growth has stayed relatively solid.

Although Fed officials took strong steps early in the year, including cutting the central bank's benchmark interest rate by more than half during the first four months, it took until the fall for them to realize that the economy had fallen into a severe recession.

Most of the eurozone remains mired in a severe recession — now spreading from the periphery to parts of the core.

Asian companies deriving significant sales revenue from exports slumped a day after the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned that euro countries are at risk of falling into a «severe recession.»

The tightening of monetary conditions eventually will expose the mal - investments of the last several years, which, in turn, will result in a severe recession, but the most obvious effect to date is the increase in interest rates across the entire curve.

So if we experience another severe recession your returns should still be pretty decent.

It will be a lobbyists» bonanza - which many in that industry would see as no bad thing, coming hot on the heels of a severe recession.

Several Member States are suffering from a severe recession.

Alice Mahon has left the Labour party because: «This Labour Government should hang its head in shame for inflicting this on the British public just as we face the most severe recession any of us have experienced in a lifetime.

He points out that over that period Britain experienced a severe recession and a significant squeeze on living standards and yet industrial relations in Britain were generally good and the number of strikes were and still are low by historical standards.

But then, he never had to deal with a severe recession.

To illustrate: being austere (raising taxes or cutting spending) during full employment is good and evokes a positive response, and cutting spending during a severe recession is just stupid as a way to stimulate.

Are you making the Keynesian argument that in the case of a severe recession we need a temporary stimulus of extra spending from some source to get economic activity back to its normal level?

«I think there's no country on Earth that is not concerned about balancing dealing with this issue on the environmental side and making sure that, in the midst of a severe recession, that it's not having too much of an adverse impact on economic growth and employment,» Obama said.

The Environmental Defense Fund started airing its ads more than a week ago, and Kreindler said he believes the message — that climate change legislation can create jobs — has begun to be accepted by the American public, particularly in manufacturing areas hit hard by a severe recession.

Argentina has experienced brain drains before — most recently in the early 2000s, when the country's economy was in a severe recession.

Obama's decisive victory and a severe recession have opened a way for the federal government to make a significant impact on schooling nationwide.

Washington's education establishment — meaning its lawmakers, school districts and teachers unions — is so resistant to reform that not even the prospect of $ 250 million in the middle of a severe recession could persuade it to accept the necessary painful changes.

But it was in the middle of a severe recession with massive teacher layoffs, particularly in the poorest communities.

But a severe recession in Japan steered Mazda into a sea of red ink, and the company canceled the Amati division.

A severe recession and a lower standard of living would follow.

As I like to say, stocks do well, absent war on your home soil, out - of - control socialism, and severe recession / depression.

Once we start doing that, we might be on the road to maturity, even if it means we get a severe recession, or even a depression.

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The investment horizon must take into account the possibility of a depression, or at least a severe recession or war, if you want to have an endowment that will truly last forever.

Yes, there were severe recessions, but the booms thereafter more than made up for it.

In a real crisis, where the Fed would face a call on cash, the result would either be inflation or severe recession.

During the extraordinary financial panic that occurred late in 2008, I never gave a thought to selling my farm or New York real estate, even though a severe recession was clearly brewing.