Sentences with phrase «dollar state investment»

Last week, the governor was in Buffalo for the third time in 15 months to unveil a multimillion - dollar state investment as part of his «Buffalo Billion» pledge.

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His legal background proved invaluable in 1991, when the state of California and its insurance commissioner John Garamendi seized Raleigh's then - financial partner Executive Life Insurance Company after the value of the insurer's multibillion - dollar portfolio collapsed — a fate tied to its massive investments in the junk bond market of the go - go 1980s.

Brennan has interviewed billionaires, heads of state, thought leaders and chief executives of multibillion - dollar corporations and her profile story on Equity Group Investments chairman Sam Zell was one of five magazine covers featured on the 2013 Forbes 400 issue.

Over the past 30 years, policymakers from around the United States have spent countless hours and numerous dollars on programs, policies, and incentives to create venture - capital clusters and to stimulate investments in their cities and regions.

Take a closer look at the FDI stats, and you'll see the depreciation of the dollar against the Euro and the pound boosted Canada's outward FDI, and the country had a $ 50.5 - billion investment deficit with the United States.

For example, content requirements could be tailored to capture billions of dollars in research and development investments primarily made in the United States, protecting high - paying engineering jobs from moving offshore, he said.

Amazon (amzn) has said it plans to invest over $ 5 billion in construction and produce many as 50,000 high - paying jobs at HQ2, with the further promise of «tens of thousands of additional jobs» as well as billions of dollars more in additional investment in the host city — prompting a flurry of (sometimes outlandish) bids from cities and states to woo CEO Jeff Bezos and company.

The United States and China have threatened each other with tens of billions of dollars in tariffs in recent weeks, fanning worries of a full - blown trade war that could hurt global supply chains as well as business investment plans.

The state's infrastructure still leaves something to be desired, too, despite billions of dollars in state investment in recent years.

At stake: a $ 5 billion facility that will employ 50,000 and boost state coffers by adding billions of dollars in additional investment in the surrounding community over the next 10 to 15 years.

In the United States, growth is flat due partly to the strong dollar; in the Euro Area, low investment, high unemployment and weak balance sheets weigh on growth; in Japan, both growth and inflation are weaker than expected.

Pomerantz is lead counsel on behalf of all lending institutions in the United States in a class action arising out of the LIBOR rate - fixing scandal, which impacted trillions of dollars in investments.

Every federal dollar should be leveraged by partnering with state and local governments, and, where appropriate, tapping into private sector investment, to permanently fix the infrastructure deficit.

That is because a decline in the dollar would raise the value of the income earned on our foreign direct investment and foreign - currency denominated assets, relative to the income that foreigners earned on their dollar - denominated investments in the United States.

Playing into the tension between (growing) state capitalism and (historically dominant) free market is China's ongoing development of its own version of the Marshall Plan — displaying the world's only global economic strategy driven by a trillion - plus dollars of investment into international infrastructure.

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He says the New Jersey bank would «take money out of Wall Street and put it to work for New Jersey — creating jobs and growing the economy [by] using state deposits to finance local investments... and... support billions of dollars of critical investments in infrastructure, small businesses, and student loans — saving our residents money and returning all profits to the taxpayers.»

We invest billions of dollars in the national, state, and local economies, including investments in state and municipal bonds, stocks, real estate and private equity.

The second cyclical factor that has had a major impact on our exports and business investment is the protracted recovery of the US economy — the slowest in the postwar period.10 When oil and other commodity prices rose in the years before the 2014 oil price shock, so did our dollar, making our non-commodity exports to the United States less competitive and reinforcing the ongoing shift from manufacturing to services.

New Chinese acquisition deals in the United States once totaled tens of billions of dollars annually, according to Rhodium Group, which tracks Chinese investments abroad, though last year they fell sharply to $ 8.7 billion as China cracked down on money leaving its borders.

The investment objective of State Street Institutional Liquid Reserves Fund («ILR» or sometimes referred to in context as the «Fund») is to seek to maximize current income, to the extent consistent with the preservation of capital and liquidity, by investing in U.S. dollar - denominated money market securities.

Using a spatial economic model of the US dairy sector, the results showed that investment in two dairy plants in Pennsylvania would bring the state millions of dollars in additional revenue and slash transportation costs.

The DN has also reported several times now on the millions of dollars worth of Empire Zone tax breaks Paladino received, and the relatively few new jobs that resulted from that investment by the state.

«The Round II grants announced today will drive hundreds of millions of dollars in state and private investment to deploy projects that will bring broadband to businesses, schools and communities, all of which need high - speed internet to compete in global economy,» Empire State Development President Howard Zestate and private investment to deploy projects that will bring broadband to businesses, schools and communities, all of which need high - speed internet to compete in global economy,» Empire State Development President Howard ZeState Development President Howard Zemsky.

Last year, Cuomo announced a plan that would have used state funds to pay for college for prison inmates, arguing that the investment would save taxpayer dollars in the long run because incarceration is more expensive than education.

The Albany - Schenectady - Troy region, which has benefitted from billions of dollars of state - subsidized high - tech investments over the past 20 years, had the strongest performance of the major upstate regions during Cuomo's first term — but still trailed the national and statewide growth rates for the four - year and one - year periods.

The president said the federal funding should be leveraged to secure state and local dollars, and, when appropriate, private sector investment.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli proudly boasted he's made more than $ 1.60 for every dollar spent in an investment area that's been bulked up since he took office in 2007: buying stakes in New York companies, including 13 in the Capital Region.

Kink says he does like the governors» job creation programs - the biggest one would use over one and half billion state dollars to leverage billions more in investments for road and bridge and other infrastructure repairs, including a new Tappan Zee Bridge, better flood control, and renewable energy systems.

«Sometimes state and federal dollars can serve as a catalyst for new private sector investment and you see that happening in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus which employs some 14,000 people today [and] will employ another 4,000 over the next four years.»

State Republican Chairman Ed Cox spoke last night, speaking with the knowledge of a board member with a major company in the field and with millions of dollars in investments in fracking companies.

Forand also cited DiNapoli's audits of state and local governments and school districts that save taxpayers millions of dollars statewide while using the investment clout of the pension fund to influence corporate behavior such as in addressing climate change.

He further stated that following the exit from the joint venture cash call arrangements with multinational oil and gas companies, the country had received investment requests amounting to over 15 billion dollars.

«Improving the energy efficiency of state buildings will save hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, create new jobs from the capital investments in energy - saving projects, and benefit the environment.»

The energy savings generated by these efficiency improvements to state - owned buildings will not only repay the state's initial investment in a few years, but will continue to save millions of taxpayer dollars for years to come.»

Such a project could cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars - money that might come from SU, a private developer and, like the Carrier Dome, a big, long - term investment from state taxpayers.

In mid-August, on the day before Enck was to meet with residents concerned that the state had not done enough to address the issue of oil trains and industrial pollution at public housing near the Port of Albany, the state announced it would devote hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment for the area and step up enforcement of rules regulating diesel trucks.

Since SUNY Poly was served with subpoenas in the fall of 2015 by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, several projects that would have brought in billions of dollars of high - tech investment, have either failed or been scrapped, mostly due to investigations by Bharara and state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

DiNapoli says he'll use his influence as trustee of New York's $ 192 billion dollar state pension fund to «seek out sustainable investments and changes in corporate behavior» to help the Paris Agreement «become a reality».

Cuomo pointed out the state struggles to bring in venture capital, or investment dollars, for startups.

The $ 25 million contract would have been part of an «in - state» investment for the multi-billion dollar New York state pension retirement system, which state taxpayers subsidize annually for roughly $ 2.5 billion.

He declared a state of emergency, and promised an additional one billion dollars in infrastructure investments, though not until the new budget next spring.

St. Paul, a members of the NY State Republican Committee, wrote, «Great day in D.C. I had the pleasure of speaking with the President's and Secretary of Treasury's staff about opportunity zones that will infuse billions of dollars of investment into urban centers.»

In an interview, State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said that, over the last 20 years - including 2007 and 2008 - 84 percent of the funds in the plans his office oversees have come from investment earnings, not taxpayers» dollars.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo pitches a $ 100 million community schools initiative, some parents and lawmakers are on board but are seeking a greater investment — in dollars as well as involvement by the state Education Department.

The gaming industry has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars this year lobbying the state's executive and legislative branches, and if recent news is any indication, the investment is paying off.

The local advisory panel will recommend projects for investment using the $ 50 million in Empire State Development funding and leveraging private dollars.

While commending Governor Ambode for his efforts towards growing tourism through investment in infrastructure, he said with the billions of dollars revolving in the sector across the world and over 1.8 billion tourists, the State was heading in the right direction in its bid to become Africa's tourism hub.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Lake Placid on Friday touted the millions of dollars in tourism, infrastructure and promotional investments the state budget is making the state's sprawling North Country region.

Cuomo noted that Kaloyeros had worked for five different governors since starting with SUNY in the 1980s, directing the investment of «billions» of dollars in state money into nanotech, and turning around Albany in the process.