The reasons for those higher rates involve everything from extraordinary fiscal stimulus via trillion
dollar deficit spending, significant changes to the tax structure, an increase in Treasury bond supply, central bank quantitative tightening (QT), a decrease in Treasury bond demand from other countries as well as inflationary pressures.
Not exact matches
But Kathleen Wynne's
spending binge next week will press the
deficit back up to $ 8 billion
dollars from the previous balanced budget — Notley, governing a province three times less populous, has had to (gently) scrape its way to an $ 8.8 - billion shortfall.
Russian leaders did not realize that
dollars or other foreign currencies were only needed to finance balance - of - payments
deficits, not domestic
spending except as this money was
spent on imports.
When the U.S. payments
deficit pumps
dollars into foreign economies, these banks are being given little option except to buy U.S. Treasury bills and bonds which the Treasury
spends on financing an enormous, hostile military build - up to encircle the major
dollar - recyclers China, Japan and Arab OPEC oil producers.
But this wrenching concern over the
deficit — particularly when the situation in Puerto Rico remains so dire — is hard for some to swallow when conservatives are simultaneously pushing forward a tax reform package that could leave a more than a trillion -
dollar hole in the
deficit and have signed on to
spending bills that added more than $ 100 billion to defense
spending, without the immediate promise of offsets elsewhere.
A Little Bad Luck For The Fed Too... As Trump's
Deficit Spending Pressures The
Dollar [providing even more incremental inflationary fuel]... Adding Further Impetus To Higher Yields.
Under CBO's Alternative Fiscal Scenario — which assumes many of the 2017 tax law's expiring provisions and other temporary tax cuts are made permanent, the recent
spending deal is extended so that most discretionary
spending grows with inflation, and emergency funding for disasters is kept in line with its historical average —
deficits will exceed the two - trillion
dollar mark by 2028.
The Fear Trade, of course, is driven by low to negative real interest rates — when inflation erodes away at government bond yields —
deficit spending, a weaker U.S.
dollar and geopolitical uncertainty.
The White House budget director came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to sell President Donald Trump's budget, but the administration's allies in the Senate preferred to talk about last year's tax cut rather than the trillion -
dollar deficits contained in the new
spending plan.
Over the next few years
deficit spending in excess of $ 1 trillion US
dollars per year will be the norm in the US, but there is more to this than the headline figures reveal.
It's likely that this
deficit will widen over the next few years and, unless many billions of
dollars are
spent soon, the world is facing the prospect of a significant shortage of oil in the early years of the next decade.
He said the
dollar faces a further slide if any Fed tightening is offset by a wider US
deficit on the back of Donald Trump's big
spending plans and tax cuts.
Meanwhile, more than two billion
dollars that could be
spent on training will remain unspent, while the EI fund is rolling in billions of
dollars of surpluses, being used to pay down the
deficit instead.
Those who run the Fed are despondent that despite implementing for eight YEARS an interest rate policy specifically designed to enable Obama to create a totally false illusion of economic «recovery» by massively increasing government
spending with trillions of phony,
deficit, zero - interest - rate «
dollars,» the people saw through the economic lie and defeated the Fed's next intended puppet, Clinton.
By focusing on trade and labor, he implies that the
dollar is weakening only because of the trade
deficit, not because of military
spending and capital flight.
Even with all those
spending cuts, the Ryan budget still includes
deficits of over 5 trillion
dollars over the same period.
'' The next two years will provide no shortage of challenges for our Conference, its partners in government and all New Yorkers: A multi-billion
dollar budget
deficit needing closure, a government that is still too big and
spends too much, chronic unemployment, some of the nation's highest taxes and a continued lack of public confidence in state government,» Kolb said.
The budget
deficit for the current fiscal year had grown to $ 350 million
dollars, and the projected gap for the new fiscal year would be a $ 3.5 billion
dollar hole, if
spending were to take place as planned.
Sen. John DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, predicted cutbacks in health care
spending to help close a multibillion -
dollar deficit.
Former LG Richard Ravitch thinks the next mayor of NYC isn't going to have enough cash in 2014 to maintain the level of
spending and services New Yorkers are used to and will face multibillion
dollar deficits.
Being frugal in the Assembly helped him eliminate a 5 billion
dollar deficit, and write the first budget in over 50 - years that cut state
spending.
«My concern is that when we're dealing with
deficits, you'd have potentially $ 200 million in taxpayer
dollars going to be
spent on campaign financing,» Skelos said.
In the past, Governor Cuomo has said he'd like to
spend more money, but New York had multi billion
dollar deficit.
According to the Comptroller's projections, the state still has a structural
deficit of nearly $ 2 billion
dollars for the upcoming budget year, though Governor Cuomo has promised to hold
spending increases to below 2 % to prevent that from happening.
As a Republican, how do you balance the need for
spending cuts and reducing the
deficit and the debt with the desire for constituents to get some federal
dollars to this area that has been struggling so with the economy?
Cuomo says with a multi-billion
dollar budget
deficit, and uncertainties in funding from Washington,
spending needs to be lower this year.
In the past, Cuomo has said he would like to
spend more money, but New York had a multi-billion
dollar deficit.
Changes that Republican lawmakers made to Gov. Scott Walker's executive budget likely would result in a half - billion
dollar deficit going into the next two - year
spending plan, according to a new analysis.
Senator John DeFrancisco predicts cutbacks in healthcare
spending to help close a multi-billion
dollar deficit.
«The Council also continues to emphasize that, with multi-year, multi-billion (
dollar) budget
deficits, New York needs to more fully examine its
spending practices, especially in major programs such as Medicaid and education, and determine why are our costs are so much higher than other states without the results to match,» said Business Council President Heather Briccetti.
He implemented his fiscally conservative agenda, including closing a gaping $ 10 billion
dollar budget
deficit without imposing any new taxes at the time, and getting the
spending plan done on time, a rarity in Albany.
In the absence of anything which can be called an «investigatory press» in Rockland County, elected officials must know that their behavior is being publicly scrutinized by the social media and that past behaviors which resulted in Rockland County becoming bloated with over 100 patronage appointments and millions of
dollars in ballooning property taxes, bonded debt, and
deficit spending MUST stop.
WASHINGTON (AP)-- The House moved swiftly early Friday to reopen the federal government and pass a $ 400 billion budget deal, overcoming opposition from both liberal Democrats and tea party conservatives to endorse enormous
spending increases despite looming trillion -
dollar deficits.
With a trillion -
dollar federal
deficit at the forefront of legislators» minds, a clamp on
spending is not as surprising as the unusually hands - on way in which the NIH portion of the House bill is written.
When the Budget Control Act was signed into law in 2011, it first established an original
spending cap baseline, along with a joint Congressional committee to come up with some kind of trillion -
dollar grand bargain to further reduce
deficits.
When
deficits get bigger, Congress gets more interested in restraining
spending, and trillion -
dollar deficits are what got us here in the first place.
But he's learned that his genetics won't be crimping a caffeine habit that fuels 80 - hour work weeks
spent trying to erase a trillion -
dollar deficit.
Politicians seizing on painless ways to cut the
deficit reinforce this perception of massive
spending, and Americans believe them: In surveys, they estimate that as much as one out of four
dollars spent by the federal government goes to foreign governments.
They allege that these laws unjustly require Newark, a struggling school district, to retain ineffective teachers, while cutting millions of
dollars each year from other areas of education
spending or laying off more effective teachers when faced with funding
deficits.
He does support cutting down on the federal budget (meaning federal education programs); for instance, he once complained, «An increasing
deficit and an ever - growing 19 trillion
dollar national debt, despite a volley of tax increases, prove this administration is committed to
spending us into oblivion.»
The Federal Reserve policy of quantitative easing along with
deficit spending by Congress has resulted in trillions of US
Dollars being created without the corresponding economic growth.
I know that I've somewhat been harping on this whole
dollar - is - good - to - travel - with - again story for a while now, but for all those readers outside of Obamaland, at least let us Americans revel in this for at least a little while before it inevitably ends (ahem — bank bailouts,
deficit spending, etc...).
Amex recently announced that all airfare purchases on the card would earn five points per
dollar — the highest rate we've seen — but because it's such a small category of
spending overall, we don't think it will make up the
deficit for most people.
And for every reduction in the trade
deficit... that's
dollars that aren't flowing abroad and can be
spent here,» he maintained.