Not exact matches
Australia's latest political crisis, the potential dumping next week of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, is masking a far greater threat to the country — a fresh outbreak of the GFC
caused by the dramatic build - up of private and
public debt.
China's
public - sector investment, in other words, is value destroying, and because it is funded by
debt, additional investment
causes China's real
debt servicing costs to rise faster than its real
debt servicing capacity.
Meanwhile, federal law had also
caused an explosion in the territory's
public debt.
«The data so far this year raise a concern that, rather than reducing the
public debt, the deficit reduction plans could be having the opposite effect because higher tax rates and austerity measures are
causing economic growth to be weaker than expected.»
The most common of these generalisations is that high levels of
public debt in the EU periphery are the overall
cause of the Union's problems.
Massive pension
debt crowds out other education funding, and in some cities, has forced reductions in crucial, basic
public services, or
caused large tax increases.
(and the gain is not tax free) The real
cause of the increase in
debt - to - income ratio is the following; 1) High taxation leaving fewer dollars in the hands of the
public 2) Record low interest rates and relaxed lending criteria 3) The wealth affect of increasing Real Estate prices 4) ridiculous credit card interest rates 5) lack of real wage growth
The combination of decreasing
public funding for higher education, spiking tuition rates and the rise of for - profit colleges «should
cause policymakers to give people back the ability to have bankruptcy courts treat their student
debts like any other
debt,» Kelleher said.
Because low interest rates and quantitative easing — the buyback of
public debt to help spur growth in the area's troubled countries — has
caused high - quality stocks to rise without actually fixing the Eurozone's problems.
In 2010, George Osborne presented an austerity budget to the House of Commons claiming that the country faced an economic crisis with an unsustainable
public debt, then at 64 % of GDP, and a huge deficit, and that this was the fault of the outgoing Labour government, which had
caused the 2008 financial crash due to profligate
public spending.