Sentences with phrase «trade economist in»

Before obtaining her veterinary degree, Dr. Mullen was as a trade economist in Washington, D.C.. However, a yearning to be closer to the horses she had always loved, motivated her to apply to veterinary school.

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Morneau's comments came after he met with private sector economists in Toronto to get their input on everything from the North American Free Trade Agreement to global economic uncertainty ahead of the federal budget on Feb. 27.

The majority of banks and economists have forecast a UK recession in the wake of Britain's shock decision to leave the European Union, as investment and trade suffer from the uncertainty around the country's future.

Bob Baur, chief global economist at Principal Global investors in Tokyo said that a yen trading in a range of 95 - 100 to the dollar would be positive for Japan's economy.

WASHINGTON, March 7 - An economist who believes that Chinese goods are literally poisoning Americans, advocates ending Washington's «One China» policy and says trade deals have weakened the United States economically with the connivance of U.S. business has emerged as the big winner from renewed turmoil in the White House.

«The cost of a trade war will be tremendous and it will make everyone unhappy,» Junichi Makino, chief economist at SMBC Nikko Securities in Tokyo, said in a report on Friday.

Statistics Canada released figures earlier Wednesday suggesting the country's merchandise trade deficit narrowed in January, though economists noted it was driven by a plunge in imports.

It's rare that economists agree on policy, but when it comes to free trade, experts are nearly unequivocal in their support.

«If you asked me in 25 years will most of the market still be actively managed, I'd say «yes»,» said Brian Reid, chief economist at retail fund trade association Investment Company Institute.

His successor, economist and senior CNBC contributor Larry Kudlow, has insisted that the U.S. and China are in «negotiations,» but not a trade war.

Specifically, the economists found «strong evidence» of a relationship between political connections and informed trading, especially during the period in which Troubled Asset Relief Program funds were distributed.

«Ultimately it will be in the interest of both sides not to pursue an all - out trade war,» said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group.

Chinese exports have risen «despite repeated Chinese claims that they were going to reduce their steel capacity,» said Ross, whom The Economist, a business magazine that champions free trade, in 2004 labeled «Mr. Protectionism» for his history of owning businesses protected from foreign competition.

In 1997, he tangled with manufacturers and fellow economists by declaring that the Canada-U.S. free trade agreement had not improved our productivity.

«A renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement could adversely impact Midwestern manufacturing states who swung for Trump in 2016,» according to Gregory Daco, an economist at Oxford Economics.

«While much attention has focused on the role of China in slowing world trade growth, the trajectory of world trade growth from here depends more on the «old world» markets of the U.S. and Europe than standard trade data would suggest,» said Adam Slater, lead economist at Oxford Economics, in a report out last week.

«Most economists agree that trade deficits are the result of saving and investment decisions rather than trade agreements,» Capistran and Harris said in an October note.

Morneau is scheduled to sit down Friday in Toronto with leading economists at a roundtable that typically includes about a dozen experts from commercial banks, think tanks and trade associations.

To answer these questions, I reached out to Professor Emily Blanchard, an economist specializing in international trade and trade policy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Economists, who had expected a $ 40.00 billion trade gap in September, said the wider deficit could cut as much as a half a percentage point off that growth estimate.

«The sharp decline in March export growth after very solid performance in January and February suggests some exporters may have front - loaded exports (early) this year due to concern over the possibility of a Sino-U.S. trade war after the U.S. hiked tariffs on global imports on solar panels and washing machines,» said Lisheng Wang, an economist at Nomura in Hong Kong.

«We expect that the trade sector actually will subtract slightly from growth in the coming year,» said Peter D'Antonio an economist at Citigroup in New York.

Phil Levy, a trade expert at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and former Bush administration economist, told CNN Money that the Commerce Department's steel and aluminum tariffs are «raw protectionism in search of an excuse» and that the national security excuse is a sort of Pandora's Box on trade protectionism.

«It's a pretty solid report with a big burst in consumption at the end of the year, a big narrowing in the trade deficit and some weakness in housing,» said Julia Coronado, chief economist for North America at BNP Paribas.

«We expect a stronger dollar and weaker growth abroad, most notably in Europe, will take a greater toll on the trade balance and overall growth in the economy,» said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial in Chicago.

Gross domestic product grew 1.7 percent in the second quarter, though favorable trade deficit figures on Tuesday led some economists to boost their estimates for future revisions.

Renewed negotiations on a comprehensive pact would in theory provide a venue to address Mr. Trump's complaint that Europe profits from the trade relationship more than the United States — a contention disputed by economists.

Layton was responding to criticism from Jack Mintz — the economist oft - quoted by Conservative Leader Stephen Harper as justification for his tax policies — that the cap - and - trade system the NDP proposed to cover the cost of $ 3.5 billion worth of green initiatives in the first year would raise gasoline prices by 10 cents per litre.

Except for a period in the early 1960s, when Robert Triffin explored what became known as the Triffin Dilemma, in which foreign hoarding of U.S. dollars was linked to persistent U.S. trade deficits, the relationship between the capital and current accounts seems since then to have mystified most economists, including those specializing in trade, even as U.S. trade deficits and foreign capital inflows soared, and as the growth in international capital flows, once consisting largely of trade finance, exploded relative to trade flows and relegated trade finance to minor importance.

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In general, most economists are cowards with their position on trade.

Anti-democratic investor rights deals are in the news again, thanks partly to a Communications Workers of America & Trade Justice Network event that brought Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz to Canada.

The British currency is already trading at levels economists forecast it would reach after a decision to stay in the EU.

Economists surveyed anticipated that gain, while they also called for a 2,500 decline in employment and the trade deficit to widen to C$ 1.6 billion.

As I discuss in Appendix 1, economists who try to explain the sources of trade imbalances by analyzing bilateral trade balances are almost always only confusing the discussion.

And Mr. Trump's signature economic policy so far — the $ 1.5 trillion tax cut — is likely to widen the trade deficit in coming years by encouraging more investment in the United States, many economists say.

In a January 2018 Financial Times article, ING's Asia chief economist and head of research, Rob Carnell, was quoted as saying that the Chinese decision may be in reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump's trade rhetoriIn a January 2018 Financial Times article, ING's Asia chief economist and head of research, Rob Carnell, was quoted as saying that the Chinese decision may be in reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump's trade rhetoriin reaction to U.S. President Donald Trump's trade rhetoric:

Because we have spent a lot of time working through the global implications of changes in trade and capital flows in any one part of the world, my students were quick to get the implications, and they pounced on the visiting economists (always politely, of course).

Saeed Ghasseminejad, an economist, and the political scientist Emanuele Ottolenghi, writing in The Wall Street Journal, estimated that the Revolutionary Guards Corps controls about 20 percent of the market value of companies traded on Tehran's stock exchange, across the telecommunications, banking, construction, metals and mining, automotive and petrochemical sectors.

Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has similarly reminded us that, although the Smoot - Hawley Tariff did not cause the Great Depression, the resulting international trade wars played a critical part «in preventing a recovery in trade when production recovered.»

Many economists had expected prices to start creeping up last year in response to President Trump's nationalist «America first» agenda, complete with new tariffs, strong crackdown on illegal immigration, cancellation of U.S. participation in the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP) and a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

«Today's trade release was expected to be a ho - hum affair, but a surge in two - way trade completely changed that story,» CIBC economist Royce Mendes wrote in a report.

However, few economists expect any mention of trade risks in the Fed's policy statement on Wednesday and see any tweaks as likely to be confined to upgrading the language on inflation to reflect that it is now effectively at target.

Australia's trade gap narrowed to $ 1.58 billion in April - down from $ 2.26 billion in March - which was well below the $ 2.1 billion deficit economists were expecting.

As a way to introduce the first, let me give you the quote from Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg about the rising threat of global trade protectionism: «The Financial Times weighs in on the rising threat of global trade protectionism in today's Lex Column on page 14 («Economic Patriotism»).

Nearly 6 % of active investors end up in these schemes and lose an average of 30 % of their investments, according to the economists» examination of 421 pump - and - dumps between 2002 and 2015, based on trading records for more than 110,000 individual investors in Germany.

Economist David Madani says that the market is «surviving for the time being on rapidly rising prices» in overvalued and thinly - traded markets, but regional sales indicate that it's unraveling.

On the other hand, there are economists who say that NAFTA has caused the loss of countless jobs to the lower - cost environments in Mexico, and that these jobs will come back in a post-NAFTA trade environment.

«Following the election, the positive shift in sentiment among investors, business, and consumers suggested that the probability of tax cuts and easier regulation was seen to be higher than the probability of meaningful restrictions to trade and immigration,» Goldman Sachs Group Inc. economists led by Alec Phillips wrote in note published late last week.

Philip Levy, senior White House trade economist for President George W. Bush, said the Trump administration «comes off as belligerent» in the document.