They want to stay in power and to keep the general populace so busy arguing over issues like guns, abortion, gay marriage, etc that we don't notice / care / understand they are squeezing billions and trillions of
dollars out of the economy for their corporate overloads (and themselves), while we are all meant to greatful for a cost of living adjustment and hopefully being able to own a home.
Not exact matches
While the Wired contributing editor advocates for an
out - and -
out end to physical money, he talks with advocates on both sides
of the ledger: those who see the waste, inefficiency and malfeasance
of our cash - based
economy; and those who think a turn away from the almighty
dollar is unwise, unpatriotic or even ungodly.
And despite so - called stimulus spending totalling nearly three - quarters
of a trillion
dollars, he points
out that there is still very little momentum in the world's largest
economy.
Wealthy investors want to take their money
out of weaker
economies, and are pouring it into the U.S.
dollar and U.S. bonds.
The
economy of Alaska can't be compared to that
of any other state in the U.S., however, as more than four
out of five revenue
dollars come by way
of the energy industry.
The talks, known as the Doha round, were launched six years ago with the aim
of adding billions
of dollars to the global
economy and lifting millions
of people
out of poverty through trade liberalization.
Oh,
of course those homecoming
dollars won't go into the US
economy, but likely back
out the door to some offshore «private account».
Commonwealth Bank has cut its Australian
dollar forecast for this year and next to take into account a slowing global
economy, the pricing
out of an interest rate hike in Australia this year and a firming
of the US
dollar.
CBA cuts Australian
dollar forecasts for 2018, 2019: CBA has cut its Australian
dollar forecast for 2018 and 2019 to account for a slowing global
economy, the pricing
out of an Australian interest rate hike and a firmer US
dollar.
Using foreign exchange reserves to support the currency — spending
dollars to buy up renminbi — means the central bank is effectively taking billions
of renminbi
out of circulation, preventing it from flowing through the
economy, where it can bolster growth.
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.»
This is what has led gold prices to surge and investors to move
out of the
dollar since early September, prompting other nations to protect their
economies.
Foreign countries can prevent their currencies from rising against the
dollar (which prices their labor and exports
out of foreign markets) only by (1) recycling
dollar inflows into U.S. Treasury securities, (2) by imposing capital controls, or (3) by avoiding use
of the
dollar or other currencies used by financial speculators in
economies promoting «quantitative easing.»
The weaker
dollar will boost exports, but QE2 likely won't be sufficient to jar the
economy out of its recent malaise, economists say.
Roadblocks put in place by the British Columbia government have caused uncertainty and hurt investor confidence, resulting in pipeline delays that have caused the Canadian
economy to lose
out on millions
of dollars in revenue every day....
The last time we put a president in the White House, and he supposedly heard God speak to him, we got attacked by terrorists, we got floods, we got into two trillion
dollar wars, the bottom
of our
economy fell, jobs left our country in droves, and started handing
out taxpayers money to banks and businesses like they were growing on trees.
«As a Board
of Equalization Member, Betty Yee safeguarded our tax
dollars, called
out wasteful spending, and cracked down on the underground
economy where unscrupulous businesses harm law - abiding taxpayers,» Yee explains in her ballot statement.
Putting her in charge
of the Department
of Education really is an insult to all
of the many teachers and educators and principals and so many Americans who have come through our public schools, who have had a chance in this
economy to make it in their lives in part due to this commitment
of America to public schools, which we need to invest in more versus the sort
of alternatives that Betsy DeVos has pushed, including charter schools that have sucked billions
out of our public education system and that have resulted in hundreds
of millions
of dollars of fraud.
As repeatedly proven by Building Alliances for Local Living
Economies (BALLE), spending at a locally owned business on average keeps 68
out of every 100
dollars circulating within the community.
He raised taxes at a time when the average family was near or in starvation mode, he confiscated all
of the nation's privately - owned gold and then promptly devalued the
dollar by 40 % (reducing the buying power
of any saved
dollars by almost half overnight), he raised bank reserve requirements numerous times (taking yet more cash
out of the real
economy so it could be hoarded in vaults), he actively supported a trade war with tariffs that created massive global imbalances (some would argue ushering in the rise to power
of fascist regimes that would have had no chance in times
of prosperity), and perhaps most damning, rather than plowing most
of those raised tax
dollars back into the stalled
economy, he instead bought gold on the global markets for the government and sequestered it, keeping it from backing new
dollars (monetary expansion, which most understand is required to turn a recession around) and instead further crushing the
economy — and not just the US
economy.
It's a trillion
dollar industry that is burdening graduates and sucking life
out of the
economy.
According to many economic studies, the sharing
economy pays
out millions
of dollars every day to people just like you.
Buck dumpers also emphasized the tremendous amount
of dollars being pumped
out by the Fed and the Treasury 70 in their attempt to revitalize the
economy 68 and the Fed's clearly - stated commitment to keep short - term interest rates low for an extended period.
Glynn's MASS MoCA exhibition responds to an
economy, in the artist's words, in which «technology companies seem to generate billion -
dollar valuations
out of thin air, nanotechnology operates beyond the field
of the visually apprehensible, and capital is accumulated as pure concept.»
What's more, virtually all these fuels are imported from other states and foreign countries, transferring money
out of the regional
economy rather than keeping our valuable energy
dollars here at home.
In the coming months, as Congress and the Obama administration dole
out billions in stimulus
dollars to kick - start a green
economy and draft sweeping legislation to curb climate change, the future
of coal will be at the heart
of the debate over energy policy.
As Dr. Richard Lindzen, MIT atmospheric sciences professor emeritus and one
of Grijalva's targets, has pointed
out: «Billions
of dollars have been poured into studies supporting climate alarm, and trillions
of dollars have been involved in overthrowing the energy
economy» — and replacing it with expensive, inefficient, insufficient, job - killing, environmentally harmful wind, solar and biofuel sources.
Reducing the cost
of advanced energy technologies is the key to finally ending a dependence on volatile global oil markets that holds the American
economy hostage, compromises our foreign policy, and bleeds more than a billion
dollars a day
out of the US
economy.
The Access Legal Care «system» is based on 12 key components: 1) be profitable for the attorneys and legal - services providers; 2) apply the Pareto principle — focus on the 20 %
of all legal services that 80 %
of lower - and moderate - income people will likely ever need; then prune / refer -
out those that are high - complexity / high -
dollar (too risky) and contingency cases (already affordable); 3) process - map the remaining services into individual steps; 4) functionally - decompose each process step to the lowest - cost provider who can perform the step legally and with excellence; 5) streamline processes with Six Sigma and manufacturing principles; 6) centralize operations for
economies of scale; 7) collaborate and
out - source to expand reach; 8) leverage technology to minimize costs and maximize productivity; 9) make affordable with both terms and price; 10) generate high demand, high - volume; 11) develop multiple revenue streams; and 12) package up the system and re-sell it to other law firms and clinics.
Paying hundreds or thousands
of dollars out -
of - pocket is not something many people can afford in today's
economy.
In 2015 the country's
economy was knocked
out by the fall
of prices on oil to 50
dollars per barrel.
The opportunity to invest in an organization that is a catalyst for the local
economy and an intense source
of pride is simply too good to pass up, regardless
of the lack
of dollars in,
dollars out value.