Sentences with phrase «u.s. public debt»

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The U.S. is the only country among advanced economies where the public debt - to - GDP ratio is forecasted to go up, says Vitor Gaspar of the IMF.

March 25 - Remington Outdoor Co Inc, one of the largest U.S. makers of firearms, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday to carry out a debt - cutting deal with creditors amid mounting public pressure for greater gun control.

His aides have made clear they believe the U.S. public would blame Republicans - not Obama - if the nation is forced into a debt default that he has said would be «catastrophic» for the world economy.

Puerto Rico is grappling with the largest municipal debt crisis in U.S. history, with both its government and the public utility having filed for bankruptcy protection amid fights with creditors.

Private equity firm Carlyle Group is exploring a sale or initial public offering of Ortho - Clinical Diagnostics Inc, a U.S. diagnostics company that could be valued at more than $ 7 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said.

(Reuters)- U.S. supermarket chain Albertsons Companies Inc is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering in late September or early October that could value it as much as $ 24 billion, including debt, according to people familiar with the matter.

The effect of transfer payments to the financial sector — as well as the $ 5.3 trillion increase in U.S. Treasury debt from taking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac onto the public balance sheet — is to support asset prices (above all those of the banking system), not inflate commodity prices and wages.

Along with the steepest equity valuations in U.S. history outside of 1929 and 2000 (on measures that are actually reliably correlated with subsequent market returns), private and public debt burdens have reached the most extreme levels in history.

The bank, in fact, said it believes the Europeans will manage their public debt mess without bringing down the system, and that the Canadian economic outlook has «marginally improved,» in part because the U.S. is doing a little better.

All accept dollars because the U.S. government declares those to be «legal tender for all debts public and private.»

Well, the reason is that 45 % of the publicly - held debt is owned by foreigners, and the remaining debt held by the U.S. public represents future transfers of purchasing power - claims of some U.S. citizens on the future output produced by others.

By the end of the next decade, then, debt held by the public is expected to approach 100 percent of U.S. GDP.

Below, you can see how dramatically all debt in the U.S., both public and private, has been allowed to soar past economic growth since the end of the gold standard.

Step 5: In the next few years, the U.S. Treasury can be expected to issue up to $ 1.5 trillion in new Treasury debt to the public, taking in much of the $ 1.5 trillion in base money created by the Fed in Step 1.

Meanwhile, Albert Edwards of SocGen suggested that there has been an excessive «move away from equities» in recent years — instead of noting, for example, that the volume of U.S. government debt foisted upon the public (even excluding what has been purchased by the Fed) has doubled since 2007, not to mention other sources of global debt issuance, while the market capitalization of stocks has merely recovered to its previously overvalued highs.

Proposal: Spur infrastructure investment in the U.S. by developing Special Purpose Vehicles for public - private partnerships, and aggregating debt into marketable, securitized products.

Baupost invest in: Both public and private distressed debt, Real estate (Baupost has done over 200 real estate deals including biding on RTC auctions), U.S. and foreign equities, LBO's and Derivatives.

That statement would clearly be more reassuring to Americans had not the largest bank in the U.S. in 2008, Citigroup, blown itself up while lying to the public and its shareholders about its exposure to subprime debt and holding more than $ 1 trillion in assets off its balance sheet.

Puerto Rico announced a historic restructuring of its public debt on May 3, touching off what may be the biggest bankruptcy ever in the $ 3.8 trillion U.S. municipal bond market.

«As of May 2011 the largest single holder of U.S. government debt was China, with 26 percent of all foreign - held U.S. Treasury securities (8 % of total US public debt).»

Franklin Templeton is separately challenging a new law in Puerto Rico allowing some troubled public agencies to restructure their debt, saying it violates the U.S. Constitution.

Vermont senator Bernie Sanders is touting his plan for free four - year public college on the primary trail; Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren called for «debt - free college» in a high - profile speech; and former senator and U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton has proposed her own plans for tuition - free community college and «no - loan» tuition at four - year public colleges.

In the U.S., student loan limits are too low to cover even tuition at the typical public four - year institution, let alone the non-tuition costs of attendance, and many students default on debts well below the maximum levels.

The downgrade could add up to 0.7 of a percentage point to Treasuries» yields over time, increasing funding costs for public debt by some $ 100 billion, according to SIFMA, a U.S. securities industry trade group.

The BofA Merrill Lynch Index tracks the performance of U.S. dollar - denominated investment grade government and corporate public debt issued in the U.S. domestic bond market with at least 1 year and less than 10 years remaining maturity, including U.S. treasury, U.S. agency, foreign government, supranational and corporate securities.

He said U.S. efforts to bail out its own troubled banks after the financial crisis and the subsequent rise in public debt may mean «we are going to have another lost decade or two.»

The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research recently published a study that indicated that «by all relevant debt indicators, the U.S. fiscal scenario will soon approximate the economic scenario for countries on the verge of a sovereign debt default.»

You also can contact the U.S. Bureau of Public Debt or the nearest Federal Reserve Bank.

In so many words, he accused the U.S. government of running a massive Ponzi scheme, although he softened this comment by noting that public debt always has Ponzilike characteristics.

Yes, U.S. currency of any denomination is «legal tender FOR ALL DEBTS, public and private.»

The Bureau of Public Debt is responsible for borrowing the money needed to run the U.S. government.

U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt.

The Bureau of Public Debt runs TreasuryDirect, the first and only financial services website that lets investors purchase and redeem securities (like U.S. government bonds) directly from the U.S. Treasury.

In the corporate finance and securities areas, Mr. Johansson's experience includes public and private equity and debt financings, representing both U.S. and foreign issuers and investors, ranging from simple debt and equity offerings to more complex financings coupled with recapitalizations and rights offerings.

He advises U.S. and non-U.S. issuers and underwriters on initial public offerings, private placements, high - yield, investment - grade and convertible notes offerings, debt restructurings and cross-border finance transactions.

He has advised U.S. and non-U.S. issuers and underwriters on capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings and other equity offerings and public and private high - yield, investment - grade and convertible debt offerings, including in Latin America.

She advises U.S. and non-U.S. issuers and underwriters on initial public offerings and other equity offerings, public and private high - yield, investment - grade and convertible debt offerings, and private placements.

He has advised U.S. and non-U.S. clients on capital markets transactions, including public and private debt and equity offerings, exchange offers and debt restructurings, primarily in Latin America.

He has worked on public and private debt and equity offerings, exchange offers and debt restructurings by U.S. and non-U.S. issuers in a variety of industries.

He regularly advises Canadian, U.S. and other international clients on a wide variety of public and private acquisition and business combination transactions, public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities.

His practice focuses on advising public and private companies and funds, such as business development companies, on public and private debt and equity offerings and other financing transactions, ongoing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reporting and securities law compliance and other transactional matters.

The executor of the patient's estate challenged the transfer as being void against public policy (as a wager on life — in prior U.S. Supreme Court decisions, life insurance policies could only be assigned to cover debts and only up to the amount of the debt; anything over that amount was considered a wager and against public policy) since Dr. Grigsby did not have an insurable interest in the patient's life.

The Bureau of the Public Debt, an agency within the U.S. Department of the Treasury, was once located in Parkersburg.