Sentences with phrase «backed by billions of dollars»

«These are typically small businesses; they're not backed by billions of dollars in venture capital,» he said.

Those schools are now subject to strong improvement efforts, backed by billions of dollars in federal support.

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«By making it less punitive for companies to bring back this money and making the process far less bureaucratic and difficult, we can return trillions and trillions of dollars to the economy and spur billions of dollars in new investments in our struggling communities and throughout our nation,» Trump said.

Apple also boosted its capital return program by $ 100 billion, with repurchases from the increase set to begin in the June quarter, and said it bought $ 23.5 billion of stock back in the March quarter, a sign that it is bringing back most of its hundreds of billions of dollars in cash to the United States.

Government - backed brokerage houses, which had in recent months raised billions of dollars by selling new shares, also suffered.

The executives» corner - cutting on compliance adds to the embarrassment and regulatory headaches for Zurich - based Credit Suisse, which has had to pay billions of dollars of fines to U.S. authorities in recent years over a wide range of allegations, including mis - selling of mortgage - backed securities, deficiencies in its anti-money-laundering program, front - running clients on foreign - exchange trades and violating U.S. sanctions by secretly funneling money from Iran through American banks.

Show me an entrepreneur that raised billions of dollars in capital and I will show you an entrepreneur backed by a strong business management team.

In 2007, by contrast, regulators looking at audited balance sheets knew which banks were holding how many billions of dollars in mortgages and mortgage - backed securities (MBS).

You know if they pull back and get hawkish, they probably can get away with keeping the show going a little longer, but if they just keep printing money, particularly the ECB and the Bank of Japan, and funnelling it into the financial system by tens of billions of dollars.

But where is Christian leadership in the building of a new world view about the sinfulness of multinational structures that are living off the backs of the poor by giving unjust wages and benefits but will spend 165 billion dollars of bail - out welfare for the rich in the S&L's?

What was bizarre about the HCRA tax was that all this money, billions and billions of dollars flowing into the state and flowing back out again for more than 20 different public health programs by the early 2000s, almost none of it was on the books.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate, has laid out how he would raise $ 34 billion: stop rebating $ 16 billion annually to Wall St. speculators from the stock transfer tax; raise $ 8 billion, and give 95 % of us a tax cut, by going back to the state tax system of 30 years ago; and raise $ 10 billion by a 50 % tax on bankers bonuses after we gave them trillions of dollars in bail out.

Instead, the release cites McDonald's support last December of a «3 billion dollar tax increase even though his campaign pledge was not to support taxes,» and his backing of a recent attempt to «weaken the tax cap» by allowing school districts to bond out pension costs.

That's precisely what a project backed by Stephen Hawking and billions of dollars now plans to do.

No matter how you measure it, the Renewal Program isn't helping kids, despite de Blasio's promise of a «bold» plan with «profound impact» backed by a «major investment» — almost a billion dollars by 2019 — that will «shake the foundations» of NYC's school system and «turn every Renewal school into a successful school» within three years or he would shut it down.

Our earnest Secretary of Education, who famously (and bizarrely) promised Congress a billion - dollar edu - bonus if it reauthorized NCLB by the administration's deadline and to the President's satisfaction, was back at it on Friday.

Outside of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington D.C.Navient, the nation's largest servicer of federal and private student loans, was charged by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with cheating borrowers out of billions of dollars by creating obstacles to paying back loans, resulting in higher interest rates and balances.According to CFPB, Navient, the former -LSB-...]

With many of its brands dating back over 50 years (e.g. SPAM and Dinty Moore were introduced in the 1930s) and supported by billions of advertising dollars over the years, consumers know and trust many of Hormel's products.

In January, the CFPB charged the company with cheating borrowers out of billions of dollars by placing obstacles in place that prevented borrowers from paying back loans, resulting in higher interest rates and balances.

Navient, the nation's largest servicer of federal and private student loans, was charged by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with cheating borrowers out of billions of dollars by creating obstacles to paying back loans, resulting in higher interest rates and balances.

Bear Stearns averted a meltdown this time, but if delinquencies and defaults on subprime loans surge, Wall Street firms, hedge funds and pension funds could be left holding billions of dollars in bonds and securities backed by loans that are quickly losing their value.

Navient is currently embroiled in legal fight with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which earlier in the year filed a lawsuit contending the student loan servicer cheated borrowers out of billions of dollars by creating obstacles to paying back loans.

At the start of the New Year, the CFPB charged Navient, the nation's largest student loan servicing company in the country, with cheating borrowers out of billions of dollars by creating obstacles to paying back loans, resulting in higher interest rates and balances.

Simply put, the government has been artificially holding down rates by buying billions of dollars worth of mortgage backed securities.

Billions of dollars worth of bonds backed by student loans could soon face downgrades as borrowers postpone or reduce their payments.

The Avengers was a massive cultural event that grossed absurd amounts of money, and its backed up by several sub-franchises that show no signs of slowing down, with Iron Man 3 grossing over a billion dollars, Thor: The Dark World doing somewhere around $ 600M and Captain America: The Winter Soldier snagging a nifty $ 710M.

While only a few of the smallest projects have been finished, the vast constellation of proposals — backed by what one official called a «strange polyamorous relationship» of the city, state and federal governments — will most likely take years and billions of dollars to complete, if indeed that is ever achieved.

For Munich Re, which puts billions of dollars on the line by backing up insurance companies, there's little doubt that the damages from severe thunderstorm outbreaks are linked with global warming, although this year's outbreak in the U.S. may have also been related to the emergence of a pool of extremely warm water off the coast of South America, which also caused deadly flooding in Chile, Peru, and Colombia.

At Altman & Altman LLP, our Boston - based personal injury attorneys have over 50 years of experience getting our clients the benefits they are entitled to for as long as they require to get better, and aggressively pursuing litigation against negligent employers and third parties responsible for the injury — whether they are backed by billion dollar corporations such as Amazon or not.

In its recent 2015 Economic Statement, the WSIB indicated that it intends to reduce employer premiums by up to 45 % in the coming years, resulting in over $ 2 billion dollars a year being paid to employers — on the backs of injured workers.

There are a number of smaller competitors as well, however in the interest of risk mitigation being backed by a billion dollar business has its advantages.

With a growing number of happy policyholders, CoverHound has found its way into the media spotlight, and is backed by investors with over a billion dollars of assets under their management.

Tether, the issuer of the dollar - pegged USDT token, had contracted with Friedman to verify that the nearly 2.3 billion USDT in circulation are fully - backed by real dollars stored in Tether's bank accounts.

Backed by the US dollar and suffering its own credibility issues — specifically an unclear audit trail of the supposed underlying US Dollars — this hasn't stopped its US Dollar value quickly rising to $ 2.2 bidollar and suffering its own credibility issues — specifically an unclear audit trail of the supposed underlying US Dollars — this hasn't stopped its US Dollar value quickly rising to $ 2.2 biDollar value quickly rising to $ 2.2 billion.

Billions of dollars» worth of bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies — which aren't backed by any governments or central banks — are now traded on exchanges every day.

Faraday Future is backed by Letv, a Chinese media and technologies company with a market value in the tens of billions of dollars.

J. Crew, backed by private - equity sponsors TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners LP after a 2011 buyout, added two directors with restructuring expertise to the board this month as the value of its $ 1.5 billion term loan was sinking toward 55 cents on the dollar.