Sentences with phrase «debt ceiling debate»

«Americans» awareness of policy uncertainty leading up to the October 1st shutdown and the pending debt ceiling debate appears to have grown as indicated by an apparent cautionary holding pattern in overall consumer housing and personal finance sentiment.»

Against this backdrop, President Obama and Congressional leaders engaged in a highly publicized and partisan debt ceiling debate that based on the stock market's initial reaction did little to improve the economic situation.

Of course the irony is that the current debt ceiling debate does not address any of the very important longer term fiscal issues that face the US such as Medicare funding and other booming social costs that lay ahead — these issues are not even on the table.

With the government shutdown and debt ceiling debate resolved — for the next three months — it is clear that the political drama in Washington caused a drop in consumer confidence, which in turn added another headwind to the housing sector and the overall economy.

The fiscal cliff and ongoing debt ceiling debate, which are likely to suppress consumer spending in the first half of 2013, continue to present potentially strong headwinds to meaningful growth activity.

Consumer sentiment has finally rebounded from debt ceiling debate lows of last year, up 31.8 percent.

«The U.S. fiscal cliff and debt ceiling debate as well as the weakened global economic environment are likely to create the strongest headwinds facing any real improvement this year,» said Fannie Mae Chief Economist Doug Duncan.

Notably, the September survey results may not reveal the full effect of the shutdown on October 1 and the pending debt ceiling debate, which will likely become more apparent in October and the coming months.

I asked Gibson about that during a CapTon interview last night, specifically how the current shutdown crisis and debt ceiling debate has put him in an awkward position, since his conference is being driven by its more conservative members.

Add on top of all this that this is a debt ceiling debate and you end up with a strong desire to not be seen as the one who is forcing the country into a shutdown.

However, at that same news conference, Cuomo was not exactly effusive in his praise of Obama's handling of the debt ceiling debate in Washington.

Schumer, the second - highest ranking lawmaker in the Senate, said he hoped to see some sort of resolution to the pending budget cuts and tax increases due to take effect at the beginning of the year following last summer's debt ceiling debate.

Andrea — There is an argument for conservative leadership skills that involves decisiveness, rather than being unable to make up your mind... there is also a conservative strength / liberal weakness in negotiation, as we saw in the debt ceiling debate, with liberals more willing to compromise.

The spectacle of the debt ceiling debate in Washington did little to improve the national economy, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a bill singing ceremony this afternoon.

We are currently not making any portfolio changes due to the government shutdown and the debt ceiling debate.

In addition, it is nearly a foregone conclusion that the United States will have another debt ceiling debate by the end of August.

Each half of that equation has been each parties argument in the debt ceiling debate: Republicans don't want to vote on the debt ceiling unless it includes spending cuts, and Democrats don't want to discuss the issue unless there are tax increases.

For example, during the contentious 2011 debt ceiling debate and the resulting S&P downgrade of the U.S. government debt, our survey showed that the right track - wrong track spread widened to a survey record of 64 percentage points.»

The debt ceiling debate last year highlighted how dangerously close lawmakers are willing to come to deadlines before reaching an agreement.

In May 2011 the debt ceiling debate started to heat up, while home prices dropped 6.8 percent year - over-year.