Sentences with phrase «times of crisis for»

It's a tactic he's used extensively as he took on the Treasury role during an unprecedented time of crisis for Britain's finances.

The visit comes at a time of crisis for these patients and their family members, he explains.

A set of poor GCSE results is a time of crisis for a school, when they need to evaluate their provision carefully and closely, and plan for a quick turnaround to deliver better outcomes for their next cohort.

Not exact matches

«A large debt also can compromise a country's national security by constraining military spending in times of international crisis or by limiting its ability to prepare for such a crisis.»

James Dean, an economist at Simon Fraser University who has studied sovereign - debt crises in Latin America, Asia and Europe over four decades, says one of the great paradoxes of sovereign debt is that countries can manage heavy burdens for a long time.

In 2009, for example, he bashed «fat cat» Wall Street bankers for accepting big pay packages in the aftermath of the 2007 - 2009 financial crisis at a time when many Americans were suffering hardship.

The selection of the new BOJ leadership comes at a crucial time for Japanese and global markets, which have been rattled in recent weeks on expectations major central banks will whittle down their crisis - mode stimulus.

Eight years after a devastating recession opened an era of loose U.S. monetary policy, the Federal Reserve was set on Wednesday to raise rates for the first time since 2006, in a sign the world's largest economy had overcome most of the wounds of the global financial crisis.

Rather, it means only that, in a crisis, for a limited period of time, the ability of the employee to do some essential functions is better than none.

years ago, but the financial crisis hit, and a deal didn't work for either of us at that time.

Abrams, who had the misfortune of taking over just before the financial crisis of 2008 crushed the sales of anything relating to houses, earned praise for running the company leanly during trying times.

In the aftermath of the call, Bombardier stock, which had traded above $ 7 a share as recently as the summer of 2011, dipped below $ 3 for the first time since the depths of the financial crisis.

In the aftermath of this crisis Jackson suffered with depression for the first time in his life and went searching for a better way.

This isn't the first time Zuckerberg has been criticized for mishandling bad press, so I for one was left to wonder, what are some of the best ways CEOs have handled publicity crises?

Unfortunately, the tech mishmash was also making it hard for MetLife to talk to policyholders, many of whom call the insurer during times of crisis.

He comes to the position amid a critical time for the Fed, which is normalizing policy after years of extraordinary accommodation triggered by the financial crisis.

Britain's biggest retailer Tesco said on Wednesday it would pay a dividend for the first time since the 2014 - 15 year when it was mired in crisis, signalling it has reached the next stage of its recovery.

For McNabb, a disciple of Collins and a close reader of his leadership bibles Good to Great and Built to Last, the calm after the financial crisis seemed like the perfect time «to challenge everything we were doing.»

There will always be room for maintaining higher profit margins during prosperous times, which helps companies to maneuver in times of crisis.

The Fed raised short - term rates last month for only the second time since the 2007 - 2009 financial crisis, when it slashed rates to near zero and began buying massive amounts of Treasuries and mortgage - backed securities to push down long - term borrowing costs.

Martin Wolf, the chief economic commentator for the Financial Times, explores the origins of the recent financial crisis, analyzes why we may still be in trouble and examines how the global economy has since changed.

A business that is there for its community in times of crisis is likely to reap rewards for a long time to come.

The bill raises the asset threshold at which banks must comply with stricter capital and planning requirements, including yearly stress tests and developing «living wills» for an orderly liquidation in times of crisis.

The peg, which was introduced in Sept. 2011, was an attempt to halt the rise of the franc — a traditional haven currency for investors — against the euro at a time when the eurozone debt crisis was at its height.

He's credited with one of the greatest investments of all time in his risky buyout of petrochemicals maker LyondellBasell, which he purchased out of bankruptcy amid the financial crisis for north of $ 2 billion.

It will require balanced budgets during normal economic times, and concrete timelines for returning to balance in the event of an economic crisis.

Beyond these concerns, of course, we still need to fix problems that have been with us for some time during the crisis: unacceptably high unemployment, especially among young people; high levels of debt in many countries; and the need to complete the financial reform agenda.

He joined The Times in 2006 and won the paper's Editor's Award in 2009 for coverage of the financial crisis.

Cambridge Analytica, which rose to prominence through its work with Mr. Trump's 2016 election campaign, has found itself confronting a deepening crisis since reports this past weekend in The New York Times and The Observer of London that the firm had harvested the data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles in its bid to develop techniques for predicting the behavior of individual American voters.

Complex and interconnected crises in the political, environmental, and social spheres are taking hold of our world — and it is time change - makers with a shared vision for a sustainable future seize the moment.

As for Argentina being in financial crisis, it's difficult to think of a period of time that that country wasn't lurking towards an economic apocalypse.

Perhaps if we had the stomach for a little more volatility at the time, and raised interest rates beyond the expectations of the futures market, the severity of the ensuing crises could have reduced.

The theme of responsibility is one he returned to several times during the interview with Vox's Ezra Klein that he sat for as part of his crisis communications push:

But recent weeks have marked a heightened level of concern that the real challenges for the massive fixed income market are closer than any time since the financial crisis.

Clark's script blamed the housing crisis on a shortage of supply, growing population and demand, consumers with double the borrowing power they had in 2000, and millennials «who are greater in number than even the baby boomers — and who are now entering the housing market for the first time — and they aren't happy.»

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

The back story is familiar to all who have followed the endless OPEC melodrama of 2016: in September, OPEC agreed in principle at a meeting in Algiers to reduce output for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis.

At the same time, Tide's consumer perception is acting like most brands undergoing a major crises: after falling for nearly three months and hitting bottom on February 20th, perception climbed back up until it hit a ceiling on March 30th, still remaining well short of where it was before the fad took off.

As the last witness for the defense in the Justice Department's legal battle against AT&T's $ 85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner, Mr. Stephenson portrayed the 140 - year - old phone giant as being in an existential crisis and in need of the deal with Time Warner to compete against tech companies.

The legislation would require balanced budgets during «normal» economic times and concrete timelines for returning to balance in the event of an economic crisis.

This is also happening at a time when institutional investors are thinking twice about allocating money to hedge funds, which didn't provide much in the way of diversification when the markets tumbled during the financial crisis yet charged famously high fees for their services.

Public companies for the first time this year must disclose how much more they pay their chief executive than their median employee, a rule born in the wake of the financial crisis and amid a social backlash against rising income inequality.

Sharing real - life member stories of health scares and deaths in the family, Angel emphasized that in times of crisis, «People don't go hug their desk for comfort.

Sales of new collateralised loan obligations are taking off in Europe for the first time since the financial crisis.

They consider a range of arguments for owning gold, such as: (1) gold hedges inflation; (2) gold hedges currency decline; (3) gold is attractive when other assets are not; (4) gold is a safe haven in times of crisis; (5) gold is a de facto world currency; and, (6) central banks and investors in aggregate are still underweighting gold.

Hicks had been contemplating leaving the White House for several weeks and told friends that she was relieved to finally announce her move... She felt three years was a long time to work in the whirlwind of the Trump orbit, with crises occurring by the day and sometimes by the hour, and was eager to try something new and return home to her family in Connecticut.

The company has compounded its earnings per share at an annual rate of 15.41 % over the last decade, which is almost unheard of for such a large company over a stretch of time that included one of the worst financial crises my generation will probably ever see.

The latest moves coincide with signs that China's annual economic growth may dip below 7 % in the third quarter for the first time since the global financial crisis, marking a slowdown in one of the world's main engines of economic expansion in recent years.

The 10 - year swap spread in the United States, for example, has increased in 2000 by about 50 basis points, to a level higher than at the time of disruptions in markets during the LTCM crisis in 1998.

In a crisis, banks might pull the lenders» credit lines, crippling them at precisely the wrong time for the broader economy — and that could leave taxpayers to bear the costs of any bad loans.