Sentences with phrase «government budget deficit»

US politicians seem to be ignoring the HUGE government budget deficit and national debt (on both sides of the aisle they spout rhetoric but no one seems able to find a compromise — and isn't that what leadership is really about?)

3) Should you worry about the US Government budget deficit?

Given that the recession has been driven by a collapse in investment and the government budget deficit is overwhelmingly a product of the falling tax receipts caused by the recession, the priority should be to increase investment.

Along with a government budget deficit of $ 1.2 trillion, that's nearly $ 2 trillion in new government debt that will need financing annually.

During the next crisis the Fed will buy $ trillions in debt to «fund» U.S. government budget deficits.

But beyond that, Japan has high government budget deficits and a very high government debt.

Japan is in the awkward spot of having high government debt, though much is internally funded, and is still running high government budget deficits.

Interest rates are determined by many things including expectations of future inflation, growth, and government budget deficits.

Not exact matches

The PQ has laid out plans to reduce that pesky deficit as well, stating the government would balance the budget by the 2015 - 2016 fiscal year.

Deficit will be President Donald Trump's legacy, financial strategists are warning as the U.S. budget expands to accommodate the government's spending plan.

«With limited resources and budget deficits across the country, governments must refocus their efforts and spending on key priorities.

The U.S. government's huge and growing budget deficits have become gargantuan enough to threaten the great American growth machine.

Balanced - budget law allows the federal government to run a deficit when recession looms.

Low rates could also help shrink the federal budget deficit by easing the government's borrowing costs and generating tax revenue from stronger growth, Bernanke argued.

Premier Kathleen Wynne defended the government's pre-election budget, which will run a $ 6.7 - billion deficit in 2018 - 2019, saying Moody's change wasn't a credit downgrade, which would effect borrowing costs for the province.

If the Central Bank creates money to refinance the bonds, then it will, effectively, be printing money to fund the government's budget deficit.

In a recent speech to the Empire Club of Canada, Manley recalled that, while serving as industry minister, he had his departmental budget cut by 50 % as the government struggled to eliminate a close to $ 40 - billion deficit.

It also requires the Spanish government to present by the end of this month plans to reduce its budget deficit to under 3 percent of the country's gross domestic product by 2014.

The Spanish government is targeting a total budget deficit equal to 6.3 percent of GDP this year, revising downward its deficit outlook to 2.8 percent in 2013.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The combined effects of President Trump's tax cuts and last month's budget - busting spending bill is sending the government's budget deficit toward the $ 1 trillion mark next year, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Obudget - busting spending bill is sending the government's budget deficit toward the $ 1 trillion mark next year, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Obudget deficit toward the $ 1 trillion mark next year, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget OBudget Office.

Spain also just released its 2013 budget, which introduces several new austerity measures in an attempt to rein in the government's budget deficit.

Prodi, the head of Italy's 61st government since World War II, made the unpopular mistake of suggesting higher taxes would be the way to fight the budget deficit.

Thirteen months later, with Canadians staring at a $ 56 - billion crater in the government's finances, the minister got testy with reporters who were asking for his response to a report from the Parliamentary Budget Office that predicted a federal deficit of nearly $ 20 billion in 2013 - 14.

Through a combination of $ 1 billion from the sale of GM shares, a $ 2 billion reduction in the contingency fund and $ 1.8 billion taken out of Employment Insurance (a holdover from Budget 2014), the federal government was able to turn a modest deficit into a $ 1.4 billion surplus.

«We believe that the deficit is going to rise somewhat above what the government was assuming in the budget,» Mostafa Askari, the deputy parliamentary budget officer, said in an interview.

The Portuguese government could soon end 25 consecutive years of budget deficits — a historic moment for the indebted economy.

Fedosejevs was part of a group of fusion researchers who requested $ 21 million from the Alberta government in 2009 to establish an Alberta - Canada Fusion Energy Institute, but their timing was poor, given that the province was about to announce its first budget deficit in 15 years.

With these issues in mind, he said he had concerns over the projected deficits in the Trudeau government's recent budget, which include a $ 18.1 - billion shortfall for 2018 - 19.

So the government is stuck between the rock of boosting its spending for 11MP goals and the hard place of keeping its budget deficit under control amid declining oil revenue.

The software had generated buzz through word of mouth in ERs across the country, after government officials in Washington, reeling from a budget deficit, threatened in 2011 to limit Medicaid reimbursement to three non-emergency visits per year.

As talk about the economy has largely focused on tax cuts, the U.S. budget deficit and the potential for trade tariffs, one of the biggest things investors and the general public seem to be missing is the increased spending soon to be pumped into the U.S. economy by the government.

Tuesday's budget showed the Liberal government is still predicting billions of dollars in annual deficits over the next six years.

But given the chance to elaborate on how far he is willing to bend in other areas the size of the deficit, whether it would exceed his previous $ 10 - billion threshold, moving up the budget timetable Trudeau would only say his government would put forward a budget that is «the right one for Canadians.»

The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), international organizations and we have argued that the federal government is facing a small structural deficit now but that it will increase rapidly after 2015 due to demographic pressures on potential economic growth and health related spending.

Falling tax revenues pushed government budgets even further into deficit, and rising interest rates increased rather than lowered prices.

In the June 2011 Budget, the Government forecast a deficit of $ 32.3 billion.

For the government sector, large federal budget deficits are a constraint and fiscal policy is slowly shifting from an expansive policy back toward restraint.

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Notwithstanding the Conservatives» repeated rejections of the PBO claim, last year's budget was an implicit admission that a significant portion of the federal government's deficit was structural.

That downturn is pushing the federal budget towards deficit, but having rejected deficits outright, the Harper government will have to cut spending to balance its budget, thereby making economic problems worse.

The Parliamentary Budget Office has been warning that the federal government has been running a «structural deficit» for several years now, and the Conservative government has been dismissing those warnings for just as long.

Instead, we should have been financing our budget deficits by having our central banks (or the ECB) simply create the money and credit it to the various governments» spending accounts — that is, by using helicopter money..

During the 1980s, the government produced budget after budget showing the deficit declining, but it remained stuck at about $ 30 billion.

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If the government raises tax rates to cover budget deficits, then my retirement tax rate could be higher.

In the February 2014 Budget, the federal government forecast a deficit of $ 16.6 billion.

Unlike the U.S. federal government, most states and cities have constitutions that prevent them from running budget deficits.

The recent drop in yields will be tested by a surge in borrowing by the U.S. government and a ballooning budget deficit.

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In the 2012 Budget, the government forecast that the deficit would be eliminated in 2015 - 16, one year earlier than forecast the previous year.