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Ambassador, your extraordinary experience and leadership will be critical as conflicts, climate shocks and hunger soar. Look forward to working together, our transition will be seamless. – David Beasley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They took pictures of broken bodies... close-ups of limbs, of burnt flesh, it shocks the conscience. – Luis Li	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As these near-term economic shocks subside, the very real [ ESG ] issues of things like climate change and equality will still be very present. – Bob Jenkins	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The fact that the economy keeps powering through major shocks from Delta to Ukraine is completely discounted. – Gene Sperling	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think I was wrong then about the path that inflation would take, as I mentioned there have been unanticipated and large shocks to the economy that have boosted energy and food prices and um, supply bottlenecks that have affected our economy badly that I didn’t, at the time, understand. – Janet Yellen	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We are part of global oil markets that are subject to geopolitical influences. Given the global nature of these markets, it's virtually impossible for us to insulate ourselves from shocks like the ones that are occurring in Russia that move global oil prices. – Janet Yellen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Given Russia's key role in global energy supply, the global economy could soon be faced with one of the largest energy supply shocks ever. – Goldman Sachs	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The energy future is moving towards clean and renewables. We should speed that transition because it's going to insulate Americans from these energy price shocks. absolutely we have to go forward with our climate solutions ; I've always been all for that. – Joe Manchin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Throughout my whole military career, I was always told 'we take care of soldiers above all else', it shocks me that we have failed to do that in this situation. – Geoffrey Hansen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The SPR is there for emergencies and negative supply shocks, you don't release SPR oil because demand is going up since you printed a lot of money and gave it to people. – Francisco Blanch	Found on CNN 2 years ago
In the 1970s, a series of supply shocks became a longer run problem... that partly occurred because policy makers weren't trusted by the public to deal effectively with inflation. – Janet Yellen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Of course it was the worst case scenario for Mr. Anderson and his family, i hope that this shocks the consciousness of both citizens and leadership. We can’t just give in to anarchy and the criminals who try to override the government and that’s really what happened in CHOP/CHAZ. It was an enormous failure. If you’re going to just give up and endanger not only your citizens, not only your people, but your law enforcement, we’re watching and we’re going to get involved. – Betsy Brantner Smith	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Achieving net-zero emissions will require transformation across the entire economy, insurance will be absolutely critical to enabling that transition and to building resilience to climate shocks. – Nigel Topping	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
The only long term remedy against demand shocks and price volatility is a transition to a green energy system. – Kadri Simson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It shocks the conscience when those failures come from law enforcement itself. – Dick Durbin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Typically shocks to hash rate do not cause price drops. A hash rate reduction slows transactions, which ironically makes it harder to move coins to exchanges for sale. The recent price drop is well within the bounds of typical volatility, it is noise not signal. – Edan Yago	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
A mud hut cannot withstand great shocks. – Proverb	added by anonymous 3 years ago
They expired from what he called ‘punishments,’ he expected them to be completely obedient and carry his babies in a basement of a row house where he had no need to hear them scream or complain. He administered these ‘punishments’ through beatings and electric shocks. He would call them weak. But his intention wasn’t to kill them. He wanted to train them to have a perfect race in his basement. He wanted to have babies and raise them with no other contact from the outside world. That’s what he kept repeating during their captivity. – Chuck Peruto	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Financial sector vulnerabilities are likely to be significant, in the near term, the strains on household and business balance sheets from the economic and financial shocks since March will likely create fragilities that last for some time. – The Fed	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It shocks me how insane they were, they walked right into a coiled rattlesnake without even having minimally studied the capacity of the Venezuelan armed forces. Theres no way the U.S. government wouldve supported an operation like this. – Mike Vigil	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We will make sure that companies don't go bankrupt from the COVID-19 shocks. Normal, competitive companies will never be shut just because of a temporary liquidity shortage. – President Moon Jae-in	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The consensus view is that these kinds of shocks tend to have a short-term impact but then most of that is recovered. – John Stopford	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There has been a steady rise in the ratio of debt-to-income, indicating that older households are becoming more vulnerable to income shocks later in life. – Olivia Mitchell	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Unless we have external shocks such as a resurgence of U.S.-China trade tensions or a war in the Middle East, it is hard to see the U.S. economy falling apart, there could be a great rotation to stocks from bonds. Emerging markets are likely to benefit from investors' bullish mood too. – Hiroshi Watanabe	Found on Reuters 4 years ago

Ambassador, your extraordinary experience and leadership will be critical as conflicts, climate shocks and hunger soar. Look forward to working together, our transition will be seamless.

– David Beasley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They took pictures of broken bodies... close-ups of limbs, of burnt flesh, it shocks the conscience.

– Luis Li

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As these near-term economic shocks subside, the very real [ ESG ] issues of things like climate change and equality will still be very present.

– Bob Jenkins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The fact that the economy keeps powering through major shocks from Delta to Ukraine is completely discounted.

– Gene Sperling

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think I was wrong then about the path that inflation would take, as I mentioned there have been unanticipated and large shocks to the economy that have boosted energy and food prices and um, supply bottlenecks that have affected our economy badly that I didn’t, at the time, understand.

– Janet Yellen

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are part of global oil markets that are subject to geopolitical influences. Given the global nature of these markets, it's virtually impossible for us to insulate ourselves from shocks like the ones that are occurring in Russia that move global oil prices.

– Janet Yellen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Given Russia's key role in global energy supply, the global economy could soon be faced with one of the largest energy supply shocks ever.

– Goldman Sachs

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The energy future is moving towards clean and renewables. We should speed that transition because it's going to insulate Americans from these energy price shocks. absolutely we have to go forward with our climate solutions ; I've always been all for that.

– Joe Manchin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Throughout my whole military career, I was always told 'we take care of soldiers above all else', it shocks me that we have failed to do that in this situation.

– Geoffrey Hansen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The SPR is there for emergencies and negative supply shocks, you don't release SPR oil because demand is going up since you printed a lot of money and gave it to people.

– Francisco Blanch

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In the 1970s, a series of supply shocks became a longer run problem... that partly occurred because policy makers weren't trusted by the public to deal effectively with inflation.

– Janet Yellen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Of course it was the worst case scenario for Mr. Anderson and his family, i hope that this shocks the consciousness of both citizens and leadership. We can’t just give in to anarchy and the criminals who try to override the government and that’s really what happened in CHOP/CHAZ. It was an enormous failure. If you’re going to just give up and endanger not only your citizens, not only your people, but your law enforcement, we’re watching and we’re going to get involved.

– Betsy Brantner Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Achieving net-zero emissions will require transformation across the entire economy, insurance will be absolutely critical to enabling that transition and to building resilience to climate shocks.

– Nigel Topping

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The only long term remedy against demand shocks and price volatility is a transition to a green energy system.

– Kadri Simson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It shocks the conscience when those failures come from law enforcement itself.

– Dick Durbin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Typically shocks to hash rate do not cause price drops. A hash rate reduction slows transactions, which ironically makes it harder to move coins to exchanges for sale. The recent price drop is well within the bounds of typical volatility, it is noise not signal.

– Edan Yago

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

A mud hut cannot withstand great shocks.

– Proverb

added by anonymous
3 years ago

They expired from what he called ‘punishments,’ he expected them to be completely obedient and carry his babies in a basement of a row house where he had no need to hear them scream or complain. He administered these ‘punishments’ through beatings and electric shocks. He would call them weak. But his intention wasn’t to kill them. He wanted to train them to have a perfect race in his basement. He wanted to have babies and raise them with no other contact from the outside world. That’s what he kept repeating during their captivity.

– Chuck Peruto

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Financial sector vulnerabilities are likely to be significant, in the near term, the strains on household and business balance sheets from the economic and financial shocks since March will likely create fragilities that last for some time.

– The Fed

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It shocks me how insane they were, they walked right into a coiled rattlesnake without even having minimally studied the capacity of the Venezuelan armed forces. Theres no way the U.S. government wouldve supported an operation like this.

– Mike Vigil

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We will make sure that companies don't go bankrupt from the COVID-19 shocks. Normal, competitive companies will never be shut just because of a temporary liquidity shortage.

– President Moon Jae-in

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The consensus view is that these kinds of shocks tend to have a short-term impact but then most of that is recovered.

– John Stopford

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There has been a steady rise in the ratio of debt-to-income, indicating that older households are becoming more vulnerable to income shocks later in life.

– Olivia Mitchell

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Unless we have external shocks such as a resurgence of U.S.-China trade tensions or a war in the Middle East, it is hard to see the U.S. economy falling apart, there could be a great rotation to stocks from bonds. Emerging markets are likely to benefit from investors' bullish mood too.

– Hiroshi Watanabe

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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