Sentence examples for Downswings from inspiring English sources
That soon changed: in the 1920s the Fed began buying and selling bonds in the open market to temper the upswings and downswings in the supply of credit.Yet during the Great Depression the Fed reverted to its original passivity, curbing its open-market operations and allowing thousands of banks to fail.
The new rules might thus increase the supply of credit during a boom, helping to fuel the fire, and reduce it in a downturn, impeding recovery.Mr Borio's macroprudential perspective might suggest that capital requirements should be tightened in upswings and eased in downswings.
It has instead demonstrated the importance of an elastic government that can spend freely in downswings because it is careful to repair its finances in upswings.
Expect more changes as performance in other bits of Citigroup's business fails to show Mr Weill in a good light.In this section Dial D for deflation Mood swings and downswings Disaster and its shadow Passing the buck Moving target A fading star Too many notes The dollar and the deficit ReprintsMr Prince's appointment was accompanied by the trumpeting of a new, more virtuous business model.
WHEN leading bankers talk of par and downswings, you might think they were referring to the markets.
Traditionally most of Iowa's industrial enterprises were tied to agricultural production; however, economic downswings and the collapse of land values in the 1980s made it essential for the state to diversify its economy as well as its workforce.
Governors are spending what could be a cyclical upswing in tax revenues on entitlements—such as increased education which will be hard to reduce in a downswing.
"Clients invariably say they would like to buy but they cannot because they own too much of it already or they own something else," says Colm Kelleher, Morgan Stanley's chief financial officer.Moreover, fair-value accounting appears to play a part in the upswing of a cycle as well as in the downswing.
Worryingly for those betting on a swift economic recovery, business schools reckon that next year could yield an even bigger crop of applicants.During the previous downswing the percentage of full-time MBA programmes reporting higher applications soared as tech stars switched to textbooks (see chart).
When mortgage markets froze in 2008 and the economy sank into deep recession, metropolitan areas with high concentrations of weak borrowers fared the worst.The sunbelt's excessive downswing now looks as though it may have bottomed out.
Mexico lost thousands of export jobs in that downswing.
