Sentences with phrase «than a great recession»

So we're in more than a Great Recession.

To what extent should a country impose austerity and even depression on itself — more than a great recession, an entire lost decade on itself — simply to pay interest to bondholders who've been financing a fiscal system that hasn't really taxed the rich in Greece?

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The U.S. economy is still struggling more than three years after the Great Recession ended.

The good news is that lenders have opened the spigot in the past few years, and more capital is flowing to companies than it did during the Great Recession.

No sector was hit harder than financials during the last recession, and now the great rotation back into banks has begun.

Bottom line: Janet Yellen wants to try to make up for the weakness of the recovery from the Great Recession by keeping the expansion going for longer than fatalists think is possible.

The urban population boom may finally be normalizing, but people are still being attracted to city centers more often than in the years leading up to the Great Recession.

But thanks to the Great Recession, Honderich is more open to cost cuts than he was as a publisher.

Since five years ago when it started, the Great Recession has hit the United States like a hurricane, erasing trillions of dollars of wealth, destroying more than 8 million jobs and eroding value from tens of thousands of homes.

Total sales for 2015 edged upward by 3 %, to more than $ 700 billion, and market research firm NPD Group forecasts that Americans will make 61.8 billion visits to restaurants and food - service outlets in 2016 — which would be the highest figure since before the Great Recession.

Still, the temptation now to use historically low - interest money from mortgages, personal credit lines and 401 (k) plans to invest in the stock market is great, especially as the Dow is reaching historic heights at more than 26,000 — a milestone unfathomable in 2009, during the Great Recesgreat, especially as the Dow is reaching historic heights at more than 26,000 — a milestone unfathomable in 2009, during the Great RecesGreat Recession.

But when the Great Recession hit, Penney's core customer — the middle - class mom — suffered more than most.

He started Stratos in 2008 on his own during the Great Recession, and it now has more than 180 financial advisors in 22 states across the country.

Even the financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession registered as little more than a blip.

The Great Recession resulted in the loss of more than 8 million jobs and left a trail of devastation in its wake, but for some, the downturn offered new opportunities.

Small - business owners remain much worse off financially than they were before the Great Recession because they suffered a particularly deep drop in income during the economic downturn.

The year is shaping up to be the sixth straight of worse - than - before - the - Great - Recession economic conditions for small companies.

After all, prior to the Great Recession, Alberta's industrial heartland looked poised to become an upgrading mecca, with new refinery projects expected to boost local production of oilsands crude by more than half a million barrels a day.

Moreover, CBO's latest baseline assumptions predict earnings to grow faster for high - income earners than for others in the next decade, [32] suggesting that the Great Recession and financial crisis may have had only a temporary impact on the rising trend of income gains at the top, much as the impact of the dot - com collapse in the early 2000s was only temporary.

So it seems to me the risk of the economy hitting the recession when monetary policy is not in a position to respond are much greater than they have been previously and therefore, we need to be very cautious about doing anything that would increase those risks.

In the aftermath of the Great Recession of 2008 - 2009, technology stocks traded at lower price - to - earnings ratios than many other types of businesses, such as consumer staples, because investors were frightened.

The gross domestic product grew by about 2.5 percent, which was slightly better than the nation has seen since the end of the Great Recession, and the number of jobs grew by about 200,000 a month.

More than five years after the Great Recession tore a giant hole in their budgets, most states have made big progress in stabilizing their finances.

The result of the vote is important for a number of reasons, but none more than the fact that global economic growth has been fragile since the «Great Recession» of 2008.

As a share of the economy, deficits are currently 3.1 percent of GDP and will reach 5.0 percent of GDP in 2027 and 9.0 percent of GDP within three decades — higher than any time except for 5 years during World War II and the Great Recession.

Astoundingly, per capita government spending in the first quarter of 2016 — 27 quarters into the recovery — was nearly 3.5 percent lower than it was at the trough of the Great Recession.

Through baby boom and baby bust, from tech bubble to housing bubble, from the depths of the Great Recession to recovery, New Strategist has been tracking trends for more than 25 years.

In fact, this next recession may could cause far greater change in U.K. and Europe than the last one did.

While leading measures and our Recession Warning Composite do not currently provide enough evidence to anticipate an oncoming recession with confidence, they do suggest much greater prospects for economic weakness than the Wall Street consensus Recession Warning Composite do not currently provide enough evidence to anticipate an oncoming recession with confidence, they do suggest much greater prospects for economic weakness than the Wall Street consensus recession with confidence, they do suggest much greater prospects for economic weakness than the Wall Street consensus suggests.

Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics» has shown an interesting trend in the years since the Great Recession: More Americans are quitting their jobs than ever.

The bursting of the last decade's housing bubble wiped out trillions in household wealth, cost more than 5 million Americans their homes and triggered the Great Recession.

As I mentioned earlier, business investment collapsed during the Great Recession, and its much - weaker - than - expected recovery since, despite historically low financing rates, has been a major source of disappointment in advanced economies.8

In the Great Recession and the previous recession, employee stock ownership firms had smaller employment cutbacks and higher survival rates than similRecession and the previous recession, employee stock ownership firms had smaller employment cutbacks and higher survival rates than similrecession, employee stock ownership firms had smaller employment cutbacks and higher survival rates than similar firms.

And after both the dot - com crash in 2000 - 2001 and the Great Recession of 2008 - 2009, investors in new, fledgling companies are exercising more due diligence than ever before.

The broader point is that stock indexes have recovered nicely since the Great Recession — the S&P 500 (a more comprehensive look at the stock market than the Dow) has more than tripled from its trough in 2009.

The U.S. economy, which was stuttering with a «fits - and - starts» recovery following the Great Recession of 2007 — 2008, has now reached a state of steady, stable growth, with the pace of growth centering around a new normal rate that is lower than its historical norm.

The market volatility is spectacular and we are seeing more gyrations in this recession than we did during the Great Depression.

For more than a brief moment during the Great Recession, it appeared the fate of the Big Three automakers was in jeopardy.

Before the dust settled, more than 8.7 million payroll jobs were lost in the United States as a result of the Great Recession.

According to the Euler Hermes Global Index of Business Failures, the rate of U.S. business insolvencies has somewhat recovered since 2008, but 2014 still saw 29,965 business failures, only marginally lower than the number reported at the height of the Great 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.

This number demonstrates that even though ESOPs were not immune to impacts of the Great Recession, leaders of ESOP companies still feel strongly that the company is better off than their non-ESOP counterparts.

And in his book, Children of the Great Depression, Glen Elder wrote that adolescents who experienced hardship in the 1930s became especially adaptable, family - oriented adults; perhaps, as a result of this recession, today's adolescents will be pampered less and counted on for more, and will grow into adults who feel less entitled than recent generations.

In the United States alone, just those companies in the S&P 500 have been hoarding more than $ 1.9 trillion in cash which began in response to jurisdictional tax disparities and global economic uncertainty following the Great Recession, then accelerated over the past decade as big U.S. corporations accumulated profits offshore in lieu of repatriating the funds and taking a tax hit.

Today his net worth is much higher than it was before the start of the Great Recession.

Reid says such workarounds are far more common today than even just a few years ago, during the Great Recession, because the economic pain is confined to a single region and bank balance sheets are generally in good shape.

Citing the 2010 General Social Survey evidencing that companies with employee stock ownership were four times less likely to lay off employees during the Great Recession than conventionally owned companies, ESOP Association President, J. Michael Keeling, urged the Congress to consider job sustainability when reforming the Federal tax code.

The latest flow - of - funds data from the Federal Reserve confirmed that home - equity wealth reached a new nominal high this year: $ 13.9 trillion at mid-2017, $ 0.5 trillion above the 2006 peak and more than double the $ 6.0 trillion amount at the trough of the Great Recession.

«As recent research has shown, employees with employee stock ownership have more sustainable employment and were four times less likely to be laid off during the Great Recession than employees without employee stock ownership.

Just look at Bank of America, which faced more than $ 60 billion in settlements tied to its mortgage practices following the Great Recession, and attempted to charge debit cardholders a monthly fee in 2011.