Sentences with phrase «wreck the economy by»

Despite this, the EPA is tasked to impose regulations on CO2 emissions that would wreck the economy by requiring a «cap - and - trade» of «carbon credits» that would impact every single business and industrial activity.

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«In this tech - driven economy, it is natural to assume that our City by the Bay could be the epicenter of any «tech - wreck» that may occur due to an overvalued and underperforming industry,» the company wrote in its recent report.
So in order to save bondholders and banks from losing, the economy would be wrecked by debt deflation.
The economy is a wreck, but the country's inept leader has probably done enough to avoid being forced from office in 2017, unless by fellow Chavistas.
Rules designed for different times can't be trusted to fully capture the idiosyncratic nature of economies wrecked by the Great Recession.
In a letter first reported by the NYT this morning, Paladino slams Cuomo's father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, saying he «left our state economy a wreck» and suggesting the AG feels he's entitled to inherit the job to further a «political dynasty.»
You have to ask yourself whether you are prepared to watch our state education system being wrecked (and part - privatised under the guise of academies), whether you will allow the death - by - a-thousand-cuts of our NHS, whether you are prepared to accept the stripping away of workers» rights as we plough towards Brexit and a zero - hours economy.
However he said the real roots of their defeat lay in the failure by Mr Miliband and shadow chancellor Ed Balls to confront effectively Conservative claims that the previous Labour government had «wrecked» the economy.
Ahead of the speech, the Conservatives have released an election campaign video showing the pair as youthful aides to Gordon Brown, overlaid by some eery music and a voiceover warning Labour will wreck the economy.
«Action against the climate crisis has been stymied by pressure from the same special business interests that are wrecking our economy, depressing wages, and pressing Congress and the White House to repeal labor rights and protections.
The most notorious train wreck between the environment and the economy is in the Pacific Northwest, where the clash was billed by the Bush administration as spotted owls versus logging jobs.
As an 18 - year - old, he traveled to Russia and made money trading privatization vouchers — you know, the botched, scandal - ridden privatization which wrecked Russa's economy and led to the domination of the economy by ex-KGB oligarchs.
For instance, while the rest of the economy hung on like a ship wreck victim to a piece of flotsam, the sales of audio books increased by 6 %.
Its three - act structure is set in iconic places of the economic crisis that swept the world in 2008: London, whose banking system collapsed; Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, whose economy was wrecked in two weeks by a succession of strategic errors in managing the crisis» effects on the three local banks; and Dubai, a Middle East financial hub.
I certainly would not have described him as any sort of activist as I tend to think that epithet applies to those ill informed zealots we see roaming the streets trying to get us to sign up to some sort of petition or other to wreck western economies by cutting carbon to unrealistic (at present) levels
A fundraising letter was penned on behalf of The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow that seeks $ 425,000 (requested by S. Fred Singer) in order to work against the United Nations deal on global warming, which Singer calls the «radical, economy - wrecking and sovereignty - destroying UN climate pact.»
I suspect these restrictions on heavy metals is a last ditch attempt to hinder coal burning utilities in the generation of electricity, an important move by Obama in his campaign to wreck our industrial economy by inflating the price of energy.
You can wreck a first world economy in a heartbeat by relying on heavily subsidised and chaotically delivered wind and solar power.
Update 4:45 p.m.: I forgot to mention that CCS is over in Copenhagen delivering advice about how to further wreck state economies by raising energy costs.
Given that nearly all the major US coal companies are now bankrupt, and that coal - fired electricity is declining rapidly, I'd have expected a lot of «wrecking ball» pieces on the supposed damage to the economy (in reality, the effects are small and mostly offset by the expansion of renewables) now that mitigation policies of various kinds are taking effect.
His most important point is that placing a price on carbon emissions by the most politically feasible effective method is feasible and that the cost of doing so won't wreck world economies.
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