Sentences with phrase «even higher government»

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The government did pledge to close some tax loopholes, which could have an affect on high net - worth investors, and it also stated that it wanted more competition in the banking sector — that could reduce financial - related fees, says Sewell — but it's not clear how or even if any of this will happen.

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed modestly higher Tuesday even as commodity prices lost ground amid questions about the economic impact from a looming U.S. government fiscal fight.

U.S. government debt yields were higher Tuesday even after investors heard from Fed Chair Janet Yellen.

The latest filing in the legal war between the planet's most powerful government and its most valuable company gave one indication of how the high - stakes confrontation could escalate even further.

If real GDP were to increase at 10.3 % instead of 2.5 % in 2015, then the government should receive, at a minimum, an extra $ 6.6 billion in tax revenue thanks to economic growth (this calculation assumes that nominal GDP grows at the same proportion as real GDP; it is more likely that nominal GDP would rise even higher as such quick economic growth would be inflationary, pushing that $ 6.6 billion figure even higher).

These positions are public sector and governments at all levels are facing budget pressures, but even so average salaries are close to $ 100,000 and some go considerably higher.

And even if some geographic locales are associated with higher productivity and growth, that doesn't mean cluster success can be manufactured by government fiat.

The government even set a target for its «innovation and skills plan» of creating 14,000 new, high - growth companies by 2025.

But when it comes to the highest - paid public employees within each U.S. state, the search isn't made easy for watchdogs, even in an era of increasing transparency at the level of state government.

In 2017, what Ferriola called «illegally» and «unfairly» traded imports were 15 percent higher than they were in 2016, even though they were openly under investigation by the U.S. government.

Wealth management now delivers higher profits even as new government regulations like the Volcker Rule crimp trading, and it does so without the kind of risk that alarms regulators and investors.

The government has even equated cryptocurrencies with «Ponzi schemes», which offer unusually high returns to early investors.

Last November, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) commended the government of Mali's deficit reduction, praising GDP growth of more than 5 % arising from strong harvests and government spending, even as the cost of oil imports moved higher.

As if ignoring high - speed and discouraging US rail investment were not enough, the Harper government now blocks even slow - speed rail.

This may involve using privatization proceeds to pay down debt, higher corporate taxes, and even higher income taxes if other forms of wealth transfer are robust enough to support them, but one way or another total government debt must be reduced, or at least its growth must be contained to les than real GDP growth.

This belief is so powerfully embedded in the standard equilibrium models most economists use that, strangely enough, even those of us who described the imbalances in one paragraph and in the very next paragraph insisted that a crisis was unlikely — in China's case because of the government's very high credibility and its role as financial guarantor — were automatically assumed to be predicting an imminent crisis.

What I find very interesting in Bianca's attitude is that even after studying law for six years, and earning barely 30,000 Euros a year working two jobs, she is enthusiastically happy with the government, high taxes, and Stockholm.

There is no such thing, no matter what a high government official or an advisor or even your mother tells you.

Keep in mind, if your work passes your claiming age, your benefits may be adjusted for an even higher amount, so will the cost of inflation adjustment, but the government will make that decision.

The government - coalition will probably remain in power, even amid social pressure due to a high unemployment rate and increasing poverty.

The Trump administration pushes back on such grim forecasts, saying it thinks inflation will remain low - around the Fed's 2 percent - for years to come, even with all the extra stimulus from the tax cuts and higher government spending.

Meanwhile, Albert Edwards of SocGen suggested that there has been an excessive «move away from equities» in recent years — instead of noting, for example, that the volume of U.S. government debt foisted upon the public (even excluding what has been purchased by the Fed) has doubled since 2007, not to mention other sources of global debt issuance, while the market capitalization of stocks has merely recovered to its previously overvalued highs.

For all those reasons, it is a remarkable failure not only that Canada's mining machinery industry remains underdeveloped, capable of meeting only a small portion of the mining industry's needs in Canada (let alone globally)-- but, worse yet, that Canadian governments haven't even seriously thought about how to translate our growing resource extraction industry into a larger domestic mining machinery capbility. We've never seriously tried to make those connections. Which explains why the vast majority of the sophisticated, expensive, high - tech equipment used in our mines is imported.Â

Bitcoin's meteoric rise has made it hard for even those in the highest spheres of finance, technology and government to ignore — and many have an opinion about its approximate 1,261 percent gain in the past 12 months.

In addition to raising a total of $ 22.6 billion in high - grade bonds for Apple and T - Mobile USA last year, Deutsche served as the go - to bookrunner for the multibillion - dollar bonds deals of Italy, Spain other beleaguered European governments — and even the European Financial Stability Facility.

Prince Alwaleed — who long maintained a high profile, even pledging in 2015 to give away $ 32 billion as part of investor Warren Buffett's famous Giving Pledge — has also reportedly agreed to step back from his informal role as a broker for foreign businesses and governments looking to invest in Saudi Arabia, says the WSJ.

Even the new Progressive Conservative government of Brian Pallister in Manitoba, elected last year on opposition to a sales tax increase by the previous government, is toying with new taxes, including a carbon tax and higher taxes on insurance products.

Instead of keeping 20 % in cash, thereby reducing expected risk to 12 %, the investor could move into 10y government bonds with a higher return than cash and even a little bit of negative correlation with equities.

Alternatively, do you maintain, and perhaps even expand the role of the federal government through a combination of higher revenues and spending restraint?

These are extremely high stakes, even if no court in the world will possess the authority to adjudicate the guilt — either if the US and its allies lied, or if the Syrian Government lied.

Even the government almost agrees after compromising by raising the income level for when the highest marginal tax bracket kicks in to ~ $ 400,000 from $ 200,000 back in 2013.

When I retire I also expect my income to be A LOT higher than it is now despite being retired, so the last thing I want is for the government to be able to tax more money at an even higher rate later on!!!

As of last week, tax - exempt government bonds hit a four year high, with many investors believing that the recent tax reform and an expected rising interest environment will push bond pricing even higher, offering a very attractive economic option for yield starved investors — many of which in recent years have had to increase risk capital allocations to generate reasonable outcomes.

«This time next year, I would not be surprised to see dozens of pilots, legislative resolutions, and even funding spread across the various states and high up in the U.S. Federal Government specifically for piloting blockchain based innovation.»

A majority of the Justices went so far as to proclaim, «The Free Exercise Clause commits government itself to religious tolerance, and upon even slight suspicion that proposals for state intervention stem from animosity to religion... all officials must remember their own high duty to the Constitution.»

They may be simple square or round towers, as in the Levant; or elaborate architectural designs as in Egypt; or the slender, pencil - shaped minarets of Turkey; in Iraq and Iran the minarets in Shi'a mosques are often beautifully decorated with colorful ceramic tiles; in Indonesia they stand as separate towers, or in the villages may even be a chair in a high tree; and in China the government did not permit the building of minarets.

And recently, those revelations were brought into even broader perspective through a study conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life, which rated most of the Arab Spring countries as «high or very high» concerning government - imposed religious restrictions.

The 61 - year - old is the spiritual leader of the global Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, whose friendliness toward the West and whose criticism of other Muslims has earned the sect allies at the highest level of the U.S government, even as it faces mortal enemies in other parts of the world.

I'm not sure this is a given, «since taxation is necessary unless you want anarchy...» And I don't think this is either, «what is the role of government in society to for the highest well - being of the greatest number» You have preconceptions even in your questions, but we all do.

When being a Christian is still an unwritten requirement for the highest government office, it's vital for those who don't view reality through a lens that distorts their views with myths and beliefs that don't stand up to even the most basic logic and reason, to make their voices heard.

No Christian writer of the New Testament, so far as our records reveal, ever faced the responsibility of applying high moral principles to preserving the institutions of society, administering governments, handling international relationships, prosecuting social reforms, or even mitigating by public measures the inequities of an economic system.1

Even today, Flint has the fourth - highest murder rate in the country, but in recent years, Flint's been infamous for a different kind of headline: the water crisis, and the government's subsequent attempt to cover it up («Everybody has been affected by it,» Crews says.).

Nor has the average school likely sources in industry, government, or organized religion to which it can turn for major grants to fund such projects - or even to fund research with a high enough surcharge for «administrative costs» to help release other funds for innovative projects.

A horror show of decrepit political formations not seen since the inter-war years has been exhumed from the crypt and installed across Europe: national governments, externally - imposed technocrats, even — in Greece — a troika - dictated regimen «reminiscent of Austria in 1922, when a High Commissioner was posted to Vienna by the Entente — under League of Nations colours — to run the economy to its satisfaction» (Anderson, 2012, 57).

«Frequent - attenders» are consistently more willing to countenance the government spending more on welfare benefits for the poor even if it leads to higher taxes.

You could also take some of the products of these programs out of the public domain (if they are in the public domain) and charge royalties (or higher royalties) to cable and digital TV and radio services, satellite radio services, etc. (which are required to carry Corporation for Public Broadcasting content under current regulations) and might even get those companies to do so by contract with PBS, NPR, etc. rather than from the government, if this was authorized by law (I don't know if it is or not, but this wouldn't take much political clout to get done).

«Senator Gillibrand has worked for Washington's interests even as New York has suffered from high unemployment and taxes and the sense that government is not serving the people effectively.

These are all individuals who are being assassinated for suspected or actual disloyalty or insubordination of some form, and a public identifiable, high profile hit tells others who might consider disloyalty or insubordination that even if it seems like they are in the clear, that they can be made to suffer a horrible death at any time as a consequence of their disloyalty or insubordination and that the agency of the sovereign government to whom they owe loyalty won't hesitate to do it.

Semple's credentials for federal office become even more clear when considering that she was approved for Top Secret Security clearance — the highest clearance determined by the US Government that a person is eligible for access to classified information.

The Liberal Democrats should therefore seek to obtain fewer government posts but insist on controlling high - spending and visible government departments such as the Department for Education, the Department for International Development, the Home Office or even the Foreign Office.