Sentences with phrase «something about our economy»

Speaking at a conference dubbed «Nana Akufo Addo speaks» at Osu Presbyterian Church hall in May 2009, Nana Akufo - Addo told a cheering party supporters that it was the responsibility of then President Mills and his administration to do something about the economy rather than constantly finding fault with members of the NPP administration.

Fourthly, during economic crises, voters want the government to appear to be doing something about the economy (even if it's government that screwed things up in the first place).

Not exact matches

If she were to write the Democrats» autopsy for 2016 - and she'll have a hand in it as one of the newly elected co-chairs of the House Democrats» policy and messaging arm - she says her message would be to «not only talk about jobs and the economy, but do something about it.»

There's something very prideful about wanting to build our own world - beating businesses and not wanting to be a simple branch - plant economy, but in a globalized era there are many roadblocks — such as access to the big bucks needed for expansion — to doing so.

A significant portion of the TSC hearing focused on Haldane's now famous Fish comment, as well as broader issues with economic forecasting — something that has come to the fore in the UK since economists were almost unanimously wrong in their predictions about the immediate impact of Brexit on the British economy.

Although the new economy was about to teach us all an expensive lesson, at least those guys with the sock puppets recognized you can't sell something original to people without first introducing yourself.

There is a persistent media approach that always finds something to criticize about China's economy.

For those who haven't heard the term, a rat hole is a discussion about something you can't do anything about (like the economy) or something that's inherently stupid (like «does our product really conform to Web 3.0?»).

«The shift in perceptions about the economy is something the government can trumpet,» Abacus Chief Executive Officer David Coletto said.

It was a direct signal to Canadians that the government was worried about a housing collapse that would damage the economy in a similar way to the US collapse in 2008; something the Bank of Canada is still worried about today.

I always enjoy reading the letters of investment managers with long term records of success; whether it's a new investment idea or perhaps a new ways of thinking about the economy, markets, psychology, risk or market history, there is always something to learn.

Then the economy will go into paralysis until we find the courage, focus and resolution to do something about it.

This was going to really damage the real economy and the Fed ought to do something about it,» Blinder said on CNBC's «Squawk Box» Wednesday.

«This isn't just a problem to do with illness; it's something that's going to affect every aspect of our economy and our lifestyle and everything in the years to come, unless we do something about it - now.

That this trajectory was unaffected by the victory of democracy and the free economy in the Revolution of 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Empire tells us something important about the post-Sixties phase of the story.

I have been asked to say something about the global economy from an East Asian perspective.

Somebody somewhere said something about Gay Marriage causes the Economy to collapse because of the gay polarity or whatever.

So let them have their opinion and you have yours... and then can we all just go back to worrying about something important... like getting the economy going, re-writing our tax code to make it fair, re-igniting the middle east peace process, etc..

Similar to a Mixed Economy like @NotMe linked, something else you can read about (but tends towards the left of the spectrum) is Market Socialism.

If somehow all these big words are about the future of Northern England's society and economy, about its transport and education and health system, about power and control vis - à - vis Whitehall bureaucracy and the whims of national government, about jobs and infrastructure and other areas where we are spending and raise tax money, then we should be talking about something else.

So finally a grudging mention that this decline in business investment might just have something to do with the huge, unprecedented change to our economy that we're about to make.

«Like his claims about New York's booming economy, just because the Governor says something over and over again doesn't make it true.

It is about something bigger and deeper about our economy, our society and kind of country we want to live in.

If it takes you this long to make up your mind about something so fundamental and you still have questions, then surely the right option is to stay with what you know, rather than risk our economy and security with a leap in the dark.

I want to finish by saying something about the long term reform of our economy and how that relates to the fiscal challenge.

The next question was something about jobs or getting the economy going.

The investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett unleashed a withering attack on Trump for refusing to release his tax returns, asserting he had something to hide, and for misleading voters about his success as a businessman and ability to improve the American economy.

«Now people removed all that I said about the poor management of the economy and then made it look like I started by talking about the resource locations of this thing and put it forward and changed certain things to make me look like I was being a tribalist and it was bad, this is where I find people very mischievous;... You take the whole thing out of context and make it look very tribalistic, so, I think, yes, it happened, newspapers reported something wrong and I think people should be ashamed of themselves when they do this kind of «cut and paste» to create that wrong impression in the system...» Mr Osafo Marfo clarified.

When it got to the turn of the Council of Elders, the regional chair spoke, Hon Hackman spoke, I spoke and I spoke on the economy, but you don't talk about the economy by starting with the resource location;... I started by talking about how poorly this economy has been managed that we have gone from GHS9.4 bn debt to GHS110bn debt at the time, and how growth, without oil, was 1.9 bn and had dwindled to about 4 % etc.,... And I said something which I've said in this room: that Ghana is not poor and that the resource base of this country is found in five regions and I mentioned the regions specifically because I was making a strong economic argument.

This approach also relieves pressure on politicians who want to do something about global warming but don't want to impose burdens on the public, a key consideration at a time when high fuel prices and the economy are explosive issues.

«On the positive side, you have demonstrations, you have marches, you have hundreds of thousands of people writing letters to complain about pollution and request that something get done about it,» says Economy.

From a US political standpoint, though, I find it troubling that for the US to «do» something about global warming, such as joining the Kyoto Protocol, would require potentially serious negative economic impacts on the US economy.

Schleicher, education director of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development, the group that runs the PISA ranking, told Tes: «The school system today is your economy tomorrow, and that is something I worry about when governments have an attitude of «oh well, lets cut some corners here».»

But if a school tells me that it's only interested in preparing my kids for the «global economy,» I'm walking straight out the door and into a place that wants them to live a good life, be good neighbors and citizens, know something about the arts, and care about their own families.

The people who say you should be looking for engine torque have something right, however: if shifting is inconvenient (due to e.g. driving a manual transmission) and you care about fuel economy, it is useful that the maximum power RPM is as close as possible to the cruising RPM.

China's economy is in the toilet and going down as we speak not to mention FCA's ship is beyond hope floundering in a sea of excess debt and about to find its way straight to Davey Jones Locker... So so much for ever seeing a Maserati that isn't a rebadged something else..

So it's delivering as - advertised fuel economy in my experience, which is something we can't say about the Ford and Hyundai hybrid vehicles that we've had come through here.

That falls significantly below the EPA's estimates of 28 city mpg and 40 highway, but if experience has taught me anything about three Car Tech editors sharing a car that claims a sporty pedigree, it's that our observed fuel economy is usually something of a worst - case scenario.

The car is something of a middleweight at 3,333 pounds, but it accelerates to 60 mph in about 10 seconds, and it posts average fuel economy of about 22 miles per gallon.

Low consumer confidence affects the economy negatively by changing our spending and really gives us something to feel bad about, higher taxes!

As I have said before, when the FOMC tightens without thinking about the financial economy, they keep tightening until something blows up, and then they loosen too much, starting the next cycle of over-borrowing.

Any small fluctuation in the markets / economies creates an urge in policy maker's mind to do something about it.

Of course, such a highly volatile market is not for everyone, but it is something that everyone should know about since it is such an important part of the world economy.

Rising foreclosures and the sagging economy are making it more difficult for families to properly care for their pets, and this week JAKKS Pets and the Petco Foundation are doing something about it — offering free dog and cat food to struggling families and pet rescue groups in Detroit, Chicago and Greater Cleveland.

Flying to HKG on business for four people, and flying back in Economy using miles and minimal fees over the busiest time of the year for Christmas isn't exactly something to complain about.

I could write for hours about how this game lacks the fine balance that makes modern RTS so compelling, how unit producing structures require manual selection each time you want to build something or about how the game mechanics of resource management make economy harassment impossible, but let's not waste each others time.

Hans Haacke's Gift Horse also aims to say something profound about the economy.

Yes, but there's something awful about that «economy of means.»

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

This debate is about your pocketbook, it's about your job, it's about whether you can still afford health care, whether we're going to do something about climate change or not, what kind of world your kids are going to be living in in ten or fifteen years, how are we going to respond to peak oil, where is the next transistor economy going to come from?