Sentences with phrase «which economists»

Businesses have been more concerned with the impact of the «fiscal cliff,» which economists predict would trigger another recession next year.

So as long as the economy stays on track, which economists generally say will be the case, the housing market should continue to improve well into the future.

Driving your car is associated with various adverse side effects, which economists call externalities.

The general pattern of the general public believing things which economists generally agree are nonsense is generally explained by the fact that economists assume that labour markets clear, while the general public believes that high wage jobs are good jobs (in the sense of rents).

«It is a great strength of economics as a discipline... But I think there are occasions on which economists might, at least for a period, put down their weapons and join a consensus.»

A major economic function of Turneffe Atoll, for instance, is the protection of Belize City from hurricanes, which economists value at more than ninety million dollars annually.

The Fed has sworn to keep hands off rates until unemployment dips below 6.5 percent, which economists don't expect until after midyear 2014.

But it's unlikely Canadians could service that much debt if interest rates rise, which economists say is likely to happen by 2018.

* The graph is based on a measure which economists Robert Costrell and Michael Podgursky coined «pension wealth.»

In a separate activity, participants played the dictator game, which economists and other social scientists often use to study decision - making.

The title was an allusion to the Yellow Book, produced by the Liberal Party research department in 1928, in which economists such as Walter Layton and J M Keynes set out plans for the state to tackle unemployment.

The model of the human being with which economists work, Homo economicus, is also purely modern.

This is the basic model with which economists work.

It would be very difficult to put forward the new theory in the mathematical form of which economists can now be so proud.

The critique here is that the market, to which economists turn for establishing value, is shortsighted.

There will, of course, be many goals the pursuit of which is relatively independent of the issues on which economists are trained to speak.

GoldMoney research director Alasdair Macleod has revisited the old correlation in economics between the general price level and interest rates, «Gibson's paradox,» which economists long debated, or at least did before it seemed to break down in recent decades.

Dowding expects 10 - year yields to rise toward 3 percent as the Fed lifts rates from close to zero, which economists say will happen in the third quarter.

Explaining the relation between the Fed's creation (or destruction) of bank reserves and banks» creation (or destruction) of deposits takes a little effort, not in the least because doing so means confronting the different ways in which economists on one hand and bankers and banking consultants on the other look at the process, and deciding whether the difference is due to substantive disagreement, or mere semantics.

Trudeau's speech in Germany suggests a hardening of his resolve to do something about income inequality, which economists such as Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Canadian Jonathan Ostry, the deputy director of the International Monetary Fund's research department, describe as a present danger to sustainable economic growth.

I will argue that most economists have an incoherent understanding of China's rebalancing needs, and for this reason many if not most of the reform proposals of the past few years, about which economists widely agree and even celebrate, are in many if not most cases largely irrelevant.

A separate survey of employers, which economists pay more attention to than the unemployment rate, found that companies added 120,000 jobs last month after adding 100,000 in October.

It felt free to issue such an advisory, the central bank said, in part because it was less worried about those record levels of consumer debt and the housing market, both of which economists have said appear to be moderating.

The hikes ultimately will return the central bank's key short - term rate, called the federal funds rate, to about 4 percent over the next two years, which economists generally consider more a sustainable level.

The extent to which inflation is a matter of perspective was made plain in a July 8 Scotiabank report, in which economists Karen Cordes Woods and Derek Holt assert that core inflation «is tamer than than the hawks are arguing.»

Business surveys, which economists say may be the best monthly measure of the broader labor market, have shown renewed job shedding in both manufacturing and services.

The biggest tax cut was the two point cut in the GST, which every economist recommended against.

Lastly, FRED also includes a huge amount of archival data, including U.S. Ice cream production, which the Economist recently wrote about, and compared with industrial production.

It was a thriving lootocracy; for a country notorious around the world for sleaze, the Jonathan administration set new records, which The Economist (magazine) of London described as «industrial scale corruption.»

A plan by leader Ed Miliband and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls to levy an escalating one per cent tax on homeowners with properties worth more than # 2million has been described as «the politics of envy» and a move which economist believe could have many unintended consequences.

Congress wants to cut the gas tax, which any economist will tell you won't save consumers money at the pump.

I would be * delighted * to see cogent economic arguments in which some economist truly accepts science on AGW and then argues however they want.

DeSmogBlog was instrumental in the 2012 «Fakegate» scandal, the theft and publication of internal documents of The Heartland Institute, which The Economist magazine has called «the world's most prominent think - tank promoting skepticism about man - made climate change.»

The Working Group III IPCC report [on mitigation which the Economist used in its most recent attempt to misinform on climate sensitivity] is no where near final, the final draft has not even been produced yet.

There are quiet library - like rooms for work, dining rooms, big kitchens that residents can cook big meals in, the afore - mentioned cinema and of course, a laundromat, which the the Economist writer notes is the liveliest area in the building, «where residents mingle and watch TV as they wait for washing cycles.»

Much of the credit for the rising tide of public skepticism toward the outlandish claims of the global warming Jeremiahs goes to the Heartland Institute, which The Economist has called «the world's most prominent think tank promoting skepticism about man - made climate change.»

Not exact matches

Economists are searching through the onslaught of data every week looking for signs of good times ahead, and everyone has their own favourite statistics which they hope will reveal that the U.S. economy is back on its feet.

Traders also digested data showing that retail sales in Canada rose by 0.6 per cent in July to $ 40.3 billion, which was in line with the expectations of economists.

«That was a major part of Canada [in which] retail spending probably would not have been typical in that month,» said TD economist Leslie Preston.

This April, I partnered with the Council for Economic Education (which educates thousands of teachers annually, providing financial and economic curriculums for K through 12 students) to ask 28 entrepreneurs, editors and economists for their top tip for saving money as part of a social media campaign titled #MySavingsTip.

Harvard public policy professor and behavioral economist Iris Bohnet says one solution to solving this issue is «micro-sponsorship,» which is the act of advocating for a colleague who has been wronged.

For years, economists have relied on something called the «Phillips curve», which measures the link between unemployment and inflation.

Lawrence Summers, the Harvard economist and former U.S. treasury secretary, says Merkel should commit to leading a drive to boost Europe's economic growth, which Greece will desperately need if it is to generate enough money to pay for its debts.

When it comes to blood tests, which is what Cuban referred to specifically, Dr. Aaron E. Carroll explains at The Incidental Economist that at the Indiana University School of Medicine, he teaches «residents and medical students never, ever to order blood tests unless they are looking for a specific problem.»

John Helliwell, a University of British Columbia economist who co-edited the report, told The Washington Post that the most surprising finding researchers came across was «the extent to which happiness of immigrants matches the locally born population.»

Image courtesy Omar Omar SBA economist Victoria Williams writes: «In a nutshell, the analysis shows that small business lending continues to have a difficult time emerging from the recession, which results in a much slower -LSB-...]

The organization, along with three economists from Columbia University, the University of British Columbia and the London School of Economics» Center for Economic Performance, created the report using data from the Gallup World Poll to reveal which countries are happy and why.

However, the Federal Reserve increased its benchmark interest rate in mid-December, which is likely to have a direct impact on fundraising and force down the high valuations of many of these late - stage private companies, venture capitalists and economists say.

That was a key takeaway from a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum this week entitled «Fixing the European Disunion,» which featured prominent economist Joseph Stiglitz and Pierre Moscovisi, the head of European and Financial Affairs with the European Commission.

«We continue to see the household sector as accident - prone, with a complacency toward debt which could prove disruptive to the economy,» wrote HSBC Canada's chief economist recently.