With the deadline rapidly closing, Congress and the White House had limited options to avoid a potential government default that could send the already
weak economy into a damaging swoon.
Not exact matches
He believes it likely means the Fed is less worried that the slowing global
economy and a
weaker China is particular is likely to drag the U.S.
into a recession.
Everyone loves a deal, and when there is so much talk about a
weak economy, a sweetheart of an offer can help turn undecided clients
into buyers.
A significant share of the corporate debt in stressed
economies is now owed by companies with
weak debt servicing capacity and this could negatively affect bank balance sheets and cut
into profits, it added.
Wealthy investors want to take their money out of
weaker economies, and are pouring it
into the U.S. dollar and U.S. bonds.
Either way large deficits will lead to recovery pumping money and spending
into the
economy, either a
weak recovery that fosters greater inequality, or stronger recovery that funds needed government programs.
Because
weak job growth may indicate a slowing U.S.
economy, investors poured
into the relative safety of the bond market.
Five things that could derail the expansion, and one that would send it soaring The
economy has its
weak points, but giving innovation a freer hand would set off another round of growthThe expansion is going
into its ninth year, but there are things that could derail it.
He said it was not channelled
into consumption as some have claimed but rather
into bolstering sectors of the
economy that were
weak.
Writing in the journal Applied Economics, Steve Cook and Duncan Watson (both from the University of Wales Swansea) and Louise Parker (from the University of East Anglia) take a closer look at two ways that unemployment impacts on crime: the «opportunity» effect (a strong
economy means more goods worth stealing, and fewer people sat at home to guard them) and the «motivation» effect (a
weak economy widens perceived differences between lifestyles and can tempt some
into crime).
One may say there is a force like a hundred thousand wedges trying [to] force every kind of adapted structure
into the gaps in the
economy of nature, or rather forming gaps by thrusting out
weaker ones.»
Inflation has stepped
into the spotlight this year: Upbeat and more synchronized global growth has not prevented
weak inflation readings in major
economies.
We still face a situation where China is force feeding loans for non-economic reasons
into its
economy, and where the financial sector of the US is still
weak due to commercial real estate loans, bank loans to corporations, and
weak financial entities propped up by the US government.
Weak credit growth in the US is one of the main reasons the global
economy is moving rapidly back
into recession.
Contribution to ROE for Consumer Cyclicals were damaged by bad results in the Automobile industry and slumping demand as the
economy went
into a recession in 2008, and had a rather
weak recovery in 2009 - 2010.
Both games feature a «Commander» unit, a giant mecha, which uses atomic - level manufacturing to build an entire
economy on far - off planets literally from the ground up, which is an interesting inversion on how mecha usually are used in games: the «Commander» is more or less the player character, and while their large mecha is by no means
weak, it's a central unit because of its production capabilities, and not because of its arsenal, which as a mecha fan I always thought was a nice way to work the idea of a «hero mecha»
into an RTS, because you can relate to the Commander mecha's role as, well, a Commander on the battlefield rather than as simply a powerful named «hero» unit as exist in most other RTSes.
Spader's presentation addressed past and projected movements in the homeownership rate, and Calabria dove
into why reversing
weak productivity and the low labor force participation rate are necessary to boost the
economy.
The world seems like a volatile and risky place with the massive daily swings in the stock market, rising energy prices, approaching fiscal cliff, slump in commodities, ongoing European Union debt crisis and omnipresent geopolitical risks flaming up and pushing already
weak U.S. and global
economies into recession once again.