Sentences with phrase «view of economists»

From the point of view of economists, these are great success stories.

A separate report on Monday, however, showed factory activity in New York state accelerating in July, bolstering the view of economists that growth was likely to pick up soon.

The billionaire's outlook contrasts with the views of economists such as New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini and Harvard University Professor Martin Feldstein, who have said the odds of another recession may be one in three or higher.

To show just how strong this point is, in this blog post, I'm not relying on the views of economists who outright oppose carbon taxes.

What I am stressing is that this «conservative» case for a carbon tax is totally wrong at Step 1, according to the generally accepted views of the economists publishing in this area.

The current debate has seen reference made to the views of economist Hernando de Soto, who argues that legal title to property is fundamental to its exploitation as an asset.135 He suggests that poor people in «developing countries» can accumulate capital in the form of land in shanty - towns for example but they are unable to realise its potential wealth because without legal title to such property, it can not be used as collateral.

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Yet economists and policy experts say that view fails to take into account the changing realities of the workplace, where it's harder to get good - paying jobs, and where wages have been stagnant for decades.

The chairman of the panel that produced the report, noted economist Jim O'Neill, was chosen for the task because many of the problems that drive antimicrobial resistance are economic ones — and therefore require world leaders to adopt a broader view of the problem.

Gordon bases his views on a modernized version of a controversial market theory first promulgated in the 1920s by Russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev.

Our Washington, D.C. economists view this escalation as a negotiating tactic, but it increases the probability of disruptive announcements in coming weeks.»

That's the view of a panel of business economists, whose latest growth forecast calls for a 3.1 percent advance in U.S. gross domestic product in 2015 — up from a 2.2 percent expansion this year.

«The psychiatrist sees symptoms of diagnosable conditions in everyone from the grocery checkout cashier to his spouse; the economist views the simple buying of a cup of coffee as an example of a macroeconomic phenomenon.»

The problem of how much to pay CEOs from this point of view, and what combination of kinds of payment to offer (cash, stock options, etc.), is hotly debated by top business scholars and economists.

Economists expect the Fed will raise rates at least once this year, based on a view of an improving U.S. jobs market and the central bank coming under pressure to keep inflation from rising well above its 2 % target.

Those kinds of numbers support the view that «a potentially severe housing correction is underway,» says David Madani, an economist at Capital Economics, who for months has been predicting a 25 % decline in Canadian home prices.

«That should be viewed as a positive development by the (Bank of Canada), though progress on reducing the «key vulnerability» of elevated household debt will likely be very slow,» RBC economist Josh Nye wrote in a research note.

But nowcasts might offer a check on the work of Bay Street and Wall Street economists; Bartlett said research suggests nowcasting produces better predictions than calculating the consensus view of private - sector analysts.

«This will likely be viewed as a «set up» for the next meeting on June 13th, where a growing number of economists believe that will be the meeting in which they will raise rates.»

Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews the chief economist of KPMG LLP, Constance Hunter, who has more than 20 years of investment experi...

The Update Should Have Included More Information on the Views of the Private Sector Economists and Their Forecasts in Order to Develop a Credible Medium - Term Fiscal Track

The economists did offer some caveats to their view, adding that risk - reward tradeoffs don't necessarily look attractive, valuations remain high — particularly in U.S. high - yield credit — and there's a growing risk of an overheated labor market and recession down the road.

That is the surprising new view of a number of economists in academia and on Wall Street, who are now predicting something the United States has not experienced in years: healthier, more lasting growth.

«A different set of people on the Fed could have a different view on what the appropriate unemployment rate is,» said Nigel Gault, co-chief economist at the Parthenon Group.

All this was viewed (by classical economists) as something that government regulators should get rid of, either by not permitting it in price, or by holding the monopolies in the public domain, or by the land itself being either nationalized or taxed.

This is the classical economist's view of the world, and it should be taken seriously.

A second major issue is that economists and policymakers do not have a comprehensive view of how government programs designed to ameliorate the worst effects of economic inequality actually affect inequality.

Below is a Brief Summary of Behavioral Finance Economists view the goal of investing as maximizing economic wealth.

The report presents a highly optimistic view of the economy's current condition and future course, with growth predictions that exceed most nonpartisan economists» expectations.

She formulates views and forecasts on the outlook for the economy, interest rates and currencies and manages a team of economists.

Shiller's view draws deeply from economists John Hicks and Vilfredo Pareto, who famously developed a theory of optimal resource distribution according to what he perceived to be the logical limits of exchange.

The bounce - back was somewhat smaller than economists had forecast, however, falling short of the 310,000 consensus view.

This is not the view of real wealth and economic growth that 19th - century classical economists had in mind when they set out to reform the economy by freeing markets from the claims of earned income and special interests.

Moreover, it is now doubtful whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As told to me by a law student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.

Although Lael Brainard's outlook on inflation reflects that of the overall view of the central bank, a large number of economists would beg to differ with the reasoning offered by the governor.

So I thought I'd share a positive view of the economy, from Allen Sinai, chief global economist for Decision Economics.

Most economists find the «lack of inflation growth» perplexing in view of the tight labor market and a pickup in GDP growth.

In a bit of cunning, he argued that the open - ended nature of the commitment — which most economists view as highly stimulative — would allow the Fed to pull back if the economy takes off.

A number of economists and commentators have expressed the belief that the global economy is on the brink of deflation, but Templeton Global Macro CIO Michael Hasenstab takes a contrarian view.

There is some acknowledgement in the Update of the variation in views on economic prospects by the private sector economists.

Yet, at a macro level, our economists view this as a medium - term positive, with 0.2 - 0.3 percentage point of upside risk to their 2018 GDP forecast of 1.1 % growth.

«[Chief economist Jonathan] Smoke and his team looked at the median number of days homes spent on the market to gauge the supply of homes for sale, and the number of listing views per market to arrive at a list of the 20 hottest real estate markets in the country.»

First written in 1949 by British economist and investing guru Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor is viewed as the bible of value investing, or choosing stocks with strong fundamentals that appear to be underpriced or undervalued by the market.

When we ask what policy to adopt in view of global warming, economists are inclined to advise us not to make any costly changes.

When we view our environment in this way, we must take account of entropy, as economists typically do not.

Economists sometimes argue that when a society becomes sufficiently wealthy the benefits of increased wealth will trickle down to those who are now poor, but in the countries they cite as success stories, the improvement of the lot of the poor was greatly benefited by governmental action and labor unions, neither of which are viewed favorably from the point of view of the theory.

Since we are bombarded daily by the mass media with news and views on the economy and economic policies, it is necessary to be trained to demythologize the claimed orthodoxies of economists, academics, policy makers and media programmes, as it is necessary to be able to demythologize the stories of the scriptures.

Some economists, of course, see every activity as a marketplace transaction — dating and marriage, political behavior and even religious commitment can be viewed as the pursuing of maximal self - interest.

Yet most economists, as well as many people living in countries newly committed to economic reform, overwhelmingly affirm Smith's views on the importance of free markets.

A hundred or 200 years ago my forerunners among political economists could find their valuational moorings in the philosophies of natural right and utilitarianism, which in their turn were based on the associational psychology of hedonism — and which are now, in my view, defunct.

Since we are bombarded daily by the mass media with news and views on the economy and economic policies, it is necessary to be trained to demythologize the claimed orthodoxies of economists, academics, policy makers and media programmes, as is accepted in the case of the stories of the scared scriptures.