Sentences with phrase «war ii»

With the tax code in need of reform but debt at its highest point as a share of the economy since just after World War II, Congress should pass a fiscally responsible tax overhaul that grows the economy but does not add to the debt.

«The younger driver isn't the driver from World War II or the old seasoned driver who doesn't mind being away for a few days.

Dire economic conditions following the First World War intensified antagonisms between nations that would eventually lead to the outbreak of World War II.

Many of you have heard about the looting of Europe that was undertaken by the Nazi German occupation during World War II.

Following World War II, the city experienced a dramatic population loss and today is has fewer than 30,000 residents.

We're in the midst of the third - longest business cycle in the post — World War II era.

In the three decades after World War II, when the incomes of the rich grew more slowly than those of the middle class, the top marginal rate ranged from 70 to 91 percent.

Only in the 1920s, after World War II and the closing of immigration to the United States from Eastern Europe, were democracies temporarily in the majority.

At the end of World War II, the Treasury pressured the Fed to keep interest rates artificially low to minimize the government's interest costs on its ballooning debt.

This is plain wrong, when the world is facing the gravest refugee crisis since the end of World War II.

All across Europe, membership of political parties is at its lowest level since the World War II.

Prefabricated materials were used in 65 percent of the designs presented for the Case Study House Program, which was held to demonstrate how technology developed during World War II could be applied to housing construction once the troops returned, the New York Times reported.

With a population placed at 78 million, the boomer generation, representing those born after World War II (between 1946 and 1964) currently control 70 % of the household wealth in the U.S. according to Brian Sozzi of the Belus Capital Advisors.

Japan's «Bubble Economy» era occurred at the end of its three - decade old «Economic Miracle» that began after World War II and saw the country's fortunes blossom as it became the world's automobile and electronics manufacturing powerhouse.

By some estimates, the United States accounted for roughly 50 % of global output at the end of World War II... It has fallen to 15.1 % today.»

Interestingly enough, since World War II, this was the longest period it has taken an investor to recover their original investment in the stock market (5 years and 8 months to be exact).

By our estimate, a $ 1.5 trillion deficit increase will result in debt reaching the size of the economy by 2028 and exceeding its post-World War II record a year or two later.

The program they were watching addressed the aftermath of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II, when 900 survivors of a Japanese torpedo attack became the target of a number of sharks.

Under current law, stabilizing the debt at its current post-World War II record level of 77 percent of GDP would require deficit reduction of 2.4 percent of GDP per year over three decades (the equivalent of $ 6.1 trillion over ten years).

With debt already higher as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) than at any time other than the aftermath of World War II, this new debt is likely to slow economic growth and hasten the country's fiscal deterioration.

Since the end of World War II, black gold has been priced in U.S. greenbacks.

That's twice as much as all bombs used in World War II.

[264] The economy of the United States has grown faster than the other original NATO members by a wider margin under President Obama than it has anytime since the end of World War II.

At 77 percent of GDP, debt is currently higher than at any time in history outside of World War II and its aftermath.

Coming out of World War II, the president was definitely afraid of inflation and so there was mandated wage restriction.

Corker says Bernanke is the biggest monetary «dove» since World War II, proud of it and degrading society.

Bernanke shoots back that he's got the best inflation track record among Fed chairman since World War II.

It wasn't until the mortgage industry expanded after World War II that homeowners started to widely take advantage of the interest deduction.

Since the late nineteenth century, however, except perhaps for a brief period before and after World War II, this is no longer the case, and we should not allow this hidden assumption to determine our explanations of trade imbalances.

Under either scenario, debt would ultimately well exceed the prior record set just after World War II.

Neoliberal economics certainly was not the road that Western Europe took after World War II.

World War II had a deep impact on Pine Bluff.

If other nations take this route, it will reverse the policy of open and unprotected capital markets adopted after World War II.

Stovall cited 10 other post-World War II periods that lasted at least 250 days in a report Monday.

Under current law, CBO expects debt held by the public to rise continuously over the next decade from today's post — World War II era record levels.

The job gain made the fourth quarter the best since 2010 and turned 2016 into a breakout year from some of the slowest hiring since World War II.

A half - century later, he has turned out to be largely correct: Only seven of the 13 bear markets since World War II have led to recessions.

Speakers this year include one gentleman who will explain why Hitler wasn't to blame for World War II, and another who'll describe how dusky, «low - IQ immigrants» are destroying Europe.

The only time this has happened in history for a three year period or more was during World War II, when we were obviously printing enough money to finance a lot of deficit spending on infrastructure and public programs.

«While we had an awful lot of up and down days, the percent change between the high for the year and the low for the year was the eighth narrowest since World War II,» Stovall said.

After World War II, it was home to an influx of war veterans.

I reached out a reader who's my resident market historian to ask for his take on the pre-World War II lack of large losses in treasuries.

Will Japan finally move toward acquiring offensive strike capabilities for the first time since World War II?

During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt selected Sidney J. Weinberg, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, to serve as the assistant director of the War Production Board.

That makes it the second longest such streak since World War II, trailing only the period from 1990 to 1997 that went longer without experiencing a double digit loss.

Let's look at what have been traditionally the «three legs» of retirement since World War II.

Economies emerged from World War II relatively free of debt, but the 60 - year global run - up has run its course.

The contraction in real output in the six months following the demise of Lehman Brothers exceeded in size any other post World War II recession — in that sense, it was a great recession.

said the meeting had historic significance because «for the first time since the multilateral trading rounds began after World War II, a trade expansion effort has ended in failure.»

Beginning after World War II, the United States gradually reduced its import taxes and pushed other nations to do the same, seeking not only to promote increased trade but to prevent conflict.