Sentences with phrase «economy run a deficit»

It isn't: both the federal government and the economy run a deficit and a shift towards savings would make a lot of economic sense.

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Let us make no mistake about it: Canada is running a deficit, and it is entirely appropriate for it to do so given the state of the economy.

That should ensure that borrowing costs will remain low, but in the longer - run trade deficits and shrinking current account surpluses could threaten Japan's ability to finance a debt pile that is twice the size of its economy, the highest ratio in the developed world.

Japan began running significant deficits in the early 1990s to jump - start its economy.

How Japan got into this bind is a story other advanced countries (like Canada) should study as they run large deficits to stimulate their economies.

Finally, while many emerging - market economies tend to run current - account surpluses, a growing number of them — including Turkey, South Africa, Brazil, and India — are running deficits.

According to the Mr. Oliver, and presumably the PM, all governments in advanced economies (e.g., G7 countries, G20 countries, and the EURO area) are unethical, because they all run deficits and have no interest in eliminating them.

If the Conservative government wants to stabilize the debt - to - GDP ratio at 25 per cent, then at that ratio, the government must run a permanent and growing structural deficit that will result in the government's debt increasing at the same rate of growth as the economy.

And the fact that joining the euro, means that you're not allowed to run a budget deficit to pump money into the economy to recover --- just like America has done --- it's that you have to pay debts that are so much beyond your ability to pay, that you'll end up like Haiti did, after it rebelled after the French Revolution.

The problem is for this or other currencies to become international reserves held by foreign central banks, the issuing nation has to run a balance of payments deficit to pump this currency into the global economy.

If the US were to run a positive current account balance with all of the other 9 largest economies in the world, the chance of the US running large, persistent current account deficits with the entire world would be tiny cuz that'd assume huge surpluses by countries that account for ~ 1 / 3rd of world GDP.

Balsillie warned that the Liberals» plan to run budgetary deficits of up to $ 10 billion in each of the next three years could pale in comparison to what could be lost in the country's ideas economy because of the TPP.

On the other hand, economist Larry Summers argues in Foreign Affairs that running deficits can stimulate the economy — like giving a car battery a boost to get it going.

Many economists reject this debt anchor and instead believe that with a strong economy now is the time not only to eliminate the deficit, but also to run surpluses and reduce debt.

It is clear that we should be prepared for a higher current account deficit in the short run — to try to avoid it would place intolerable strains on the rest of the economy.

The recent federal election featured something of a debate on fiscal policy, with the Liberals promising to run modest deficits for three years in order to stimulate a sagging economy and finance needed long - term investments in infrastructure and social programs.

The credit either can come from governments running a budget deficit and pumping money into the economy, or it can come from bank lending.

His comment on Keynesian economics is in reference to the theory that governments should spend more — even by running deficits — to stimulate the economy during hard times and government should pay off debt and prepare for future recessions during good times.

This is not true, however, of Australia where, after four successive budget surpluses in the late 1980s, the Government has been able, responsibly, to run deficits to help the economy out of the recession.

Because before it was guy The Shrub, who sorta kinda ran the deficit way up and started two pointless wars and wrecked the economy and little stuff like that, which people seem to think means that we Republicans can't select a decent candidate for the life of us.

For all Ed Miliband's talk of restructuring the British economy and creating a responsible capitalism, the party's position on the core issue of the deficit was dangerously muddled: after three years of opposing «austerity», the Labour leadership spentthe run - up to the election trying to minimise its differences with the government.

«If you take the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU)[report], they said 2017 and onward is going to be a period of prosperity for Ghana and that is because of the foundation that we have laid, it's because of the work that we have done, we've eliminated a lot of the deficits that were created by huge subsidies on utility tariffs, we eliminated a lot of the subsidies that created huge deficits on the cost of petroleum products, today as I speak, Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is running, and producing petroleum products for Ghana, we have enough stock of LPG, our tanks and strategic reserves for petroleum products are all full, and, so, we have ships standing offshore Ghana with petroleum products, but there is no space to offload those products, and, so, we've done a good job in stabilising various sectors of the economy.

The causal sequence, as I understand it, runs as follows: (1) Inadequate regulation of the financial sector leads to (2) crisis in the financial sector which leads to (3) crisis in the whole economy which leads to (4) falling tax revenues which leads to (5) a bigger budget deficit.

We import more than we export and it's been harming our economy running a massive trade deficit.

However, throughout the second half of the 20th Century, national debt and public sector borrowing emerged as a structural problem in most developed economies, with large deficits being run year after year, as the role and «size» of the state has grown.

The majority of the public has confidence in the Government's ability to run the economy (55 %) and there is widespread confidence in its ability to cut the deficit (62 %).

Congressional analysts are projecting that President Donald Trump has inherited a stable economy and a government that is on track to run a $ 559 billion budget deficit for the ongoing budget year.

Only 69 % of Labour voters trust Labour more than the coalition more than Labour to deal with the deficit, 77 % trust Miliband & Balls to run the economy more than Cameron & Osborne.

A fortnight after Miliband was criticised for omitting passages of his planned conference speech which dealt with the deficit, the 19 % of voters signalling trust in Labour to run the economy equals the party's previous record low on this question, which was recorded in June 2013 (pdf).

There is a lot of stress in the global economy as it attempts to reconcile economies that must export, no matter what, with those that must run deficits, no matter what.

Running large deficits that don't do much good for the economy as a whole, while racking up debts that will have to be paid by future generations.

6) The idea that running deficits to «stimulate» the economy is questionable.

If I recall correctly, CATO has been running a very similar (same format, \ With all due respect, Mr. President, that is not true \ wording) ad regarding deficit spending to stimulate the economy.

The U.S. economy has experienced a period of debt - financed, consumption - led «expansion» with stagnant wages and employment, and has been running large and rising current account deficits (the current account deficit is a broad measure of the trade deficit).

Finance Minister Dwight Duncan forecast that Ontario, which has the largest economy and population of any Canadian province, will run a deficit of $ 16.3 billion for the 2011 - 12 fiscal year.