Sentences with phrase «us military spending»

«A large debt also can compromise a country's national security by constraining military spending in times of international crisis or by limiting its ability to prepare for such a crisis.»

It follows the disclosure that the heir to the throne has regularly lobbied ministers over pet subjects including homeopathy, architecture, rainforests, rural housing and military spending.

Laingen started the network in 2004, while working for Minnesota Wire, a small manufacturing company that realized that high - tech entrepreneurs needed some way to band together and tap into the rich vein of military spending.

While the budget proposes large spending cuts to many government agencies — the Environmental Protection Agency and State Department budgets would be cut 31 % and 28 %, respectively — defense and military spending would increase substantially.

It would significantly boost military spending and increase funding for border security, infrastructure and efforts to fight the opioid epidemic.

Ryan emphasized «all the wins» in the bill, particularly military spending, and felt encouraged after the call, the source added.

He added that he «looked very seriously» at a veto, but his support for the military spending levels «overrode» his concerns about the bill.

Norway has increased military spending by 9.4 % for 2016.

Since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, governments worldwide have been looking toward a «peace dividend,» an across - the - board decline in military spending.

The president said he approved the legislation to fund the government through September for national security reasons, as it authorizes a major increase in military spending that he supports.

He'd like to increase military spending, sign free trade deals with other Asian countries, make it easier for companies to hire and fire workers, change immigration laws, get more women in the labour force and much more.

The outside world needs to apply a different kind of pressure: a diplomatic and economic push for regime - led reforms, commercial investment, and reduced military spending.

To determine the economic health of the 30 OECD countries, Canadian Business ranked them by 12 categories: demographics, GDP, trade, prices, energy, life quality, government finance, labour, technology, education, environment and military spending.

President Donald Trump will propose beefing up military spending and slashing domestic programs and foreign aid in his fiscal year 2018 budget to be released on Thursday.

A note: the majority of data in the Factbook is for 2005, and the lower the military spending as a percentage of GDP the better the score in that category.

China last year set military spending at 954.35 billion yuan ($ 138.93 billion), likely understating its investment, according to diplomats.

According to 2016 estimates gathered by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the United States was responsible for 36 % of the entire world's military spending.

Even so, President Trump is calling for a $ 54 billion increase in US military spending which he says is needed to «rebuild the military.»

Other defense companies such as Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics — which manufactures everything from tanks to nuclear - powered submarines — have also benefited amid talks of augmented military spend.

The deal would raise spending caps by about $ 300 billion over two years and bump the limit on military spending by $ 80 billion in the current year and $ 85 billion in the next year.

China's increase in military spending, the biggest rise in three years, was proportionate and low, state media said.

The White House said his new budget proposals will «fully reverse» the so - called sequestration on the domestic side, while raising military spending.

Trump's budget also calls for what the President deemed a «historic» increase in military spending, amounting to an additional $ 52 billion allocation for the Department of Defense.

Health care works, education works, military spending works.

While it is difficult to ascertain exactly how much the US military spent in Syria specifically, Operation Inherent Resolve as a whole has cost over over $ 18 billion as of February 2018, according to the Pentagon.

Northrop Grumman, the defense giant, has managed impressive earnings growth, and has recently benefited from a political push to increase U.S. military spending.

North Korea is drenched in chronic economic problems, due to a one - sided focus on military spending and decades of economic sanctions from the international community.

In his new bestseller, The Next Decade, Friedman argues that capital shortages, the impending down cycle in U.S. military spending and an aging population that drains public coffers mean the arrival of the next wave of «truly transformative» technologies will be delayed.

Joe Weisenthal says it is because of the big drop in military spending.

Answering to Trump's promises of increased military spending, stocks in the aerospace and defense industry have popped 39 % based on the SPDR S&P 500 Aerospace and Defense exchange - traded fund.

Russia cut its military spending in 2017, a Kremlin spokesman acknowledged, just as the United States and its European allies have imposed steep sanctions on the former Cold War rival's economy.

Total military spending hit $ 818 billion last year, is projected to rise to about $ 875 billion this year, and is estimated to increase to $ 886 billion in 2019.

So, the trend is clearly higher and this trajectory is likely to proceed going forward due to increased military spending regardless of what happens on the Korean Peninsula.

Apart from the occasional sound - bite on military spending, the Iraq war, and missile defence, Canada's role in the world was not part of the mainstream election debate.

But the international sector involves not only export and import trade and other current account items (emigrants» remittances, and above all, military spending) but also foreign investment and income — and foreign central bank reserves held in U.S. Treasury and other securities, that is, loans to the U.S. Government.

When foreign funds could not be borrowed, countries had to pay gold to defray the costs of their military spending, or go off gold to print money freely and see their currencies depreciate.

Overseas military spending obliged the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates to borrow abroad to prevent the dollar's exchange rate from declining.

Russian military spending fell by a fifth last year, its first decline in nearly two decades, with tighter purse - strings likely to affect Moscow's military activity...

Harper's economic strategy, if it can be called that, is looking more and more like George Bush's: tax cuts and military spending.

And foreign lending and debt service, military spending and financial speculation are an inherent part of the global system affecting exchange rates.

The basic principle is that U.S. consumer demand and military spending should be the «engine» that drives foreign production, rather than production abroad driving domestic consumption (as in Say's Law).

Since 2001 the silver and gold markets have gone up substantially as a reaction to the 20 year precious metals bear market from 1980 — 2000, massive increases in military spending, weakening global economies that REQUIRE Quantitative Easing to avoid deflation, the rise of competing currencies that weaken the dollar's trading status, excessive debts in Europe, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and so much more.

Add to that the winding down of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the reduction in military spending.

But after the Korean War broke out, U.S. overseas military spending accounted for the entire payments deficit during the 1950s and «60s and early «70s, while private - sector trade and investment were exactly in balance.

The corollary is that other countries» balance - of - payments surpluses do not stem primarily from trade relations, but from financial speculation and a spillover of U.S. global military spending.

Yet most discussions treat the balance of payments and exchange rates as if they were determined purely by commodity trade and «purchasing power parity,» not by the financial flows and military spending that actually dominate the balance of payments.

The top five biggest spenders were the United States, China, Saudi Arabia, Russia and India, which accounted for 60 percent of global military spending.

In the late 1970s he coped with the U.S. balance - of - payments deficit (stemming mainly from overseas military spending) and consequent the inflationary pressures by raising interest rates to 20 %, thereby plunging stock market and real estate prices.

The IMF for its part vetoed cutbacks in Greek military spending (far above the 2 % of GDP demanded by NATO), despite even the European Central Bank (ECB) and German Chancellor Merkel agreeing to this.

To give themselves an incentive, they passed drastic domestic and military spending cuts that would take effect on January 1, 2013, if they couldn't reach on a more sensible program.