Sentences with phrase «government debt now»

Our government debt now pays substantially higher interest rates than other major economies, and it's likely attracting inflows of cash which could push our currency back up in value.

The Financial Times recently reported that negative yielding government debt now exceeds $ 11.7 trillion — approximately 25 % of total global government debt.

After many years of extraordinary monetary policy, an enormous quantity of government debt now sits on central bank balance sheets.

As I've mentioned before, about $ 10 trillion worth of global government debt now carries historically low or negative yields.

According to the U.S. National Debt Clock, government debt now stands at over $ 21 trillion — or, put another way, $ 174,000 per taxpayer.

The Financial Times recently reported that negative yielding government debt now exceeds $ 11.7 trillion — approximately 25 % of total global government debt.

Not exact matches

America has been able to play the spendthrift because foreign lenders have shown a huge appetite for both our government and corporate debt — they now own $ 6 trillion of our $ 15.5 trillion in publicly owned Treasuries.

Unlike the years before the crisis, the global consensus now is that governments should be agnostic when it comes to fiscal policy; too much debt is problematic (Greece, Spain, etc.), but it can take more than a balanced budget to inspire business confidence and get executives to spend.

Now, compare that to what Bachmann said during the government shutdown and debt ceiling fights last Fall:

This borrowing will materially worsen the government's debt position: Moody's now expects Spain's public debt ratio to rise to around 90 % of GDP this year and to continue rising until the middle of the decade.

NEW YORK, March 27 - Puerto Ricos Government Development Bank, the islands insolvent former fiscal agent now in wind - down mode, has tweaked its $ 5 billion debt restructuring deal to help keep small towns afloat six months after Hurricane Maria.

After pinching pennies to avoid a U.S. default on debts in July, U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner now insists Uncle Sam will have to break its obligations to creditors in August unless the federal government's debt ceiling is raised.

It may now be forced to default on its debt to international lenders if not bailed out by the Russian government.

Auditor general Bonnie Lysyk's report noted that the government now spends more on debt interest than it does on post-secondary education, and those interest costs are growing.

The Republican - led Congress has struggled immensely over the past eight months, and the party now faces further division as they return and urgently need to raise the debt ceiling to avoid a government shutdown, pass an aid package for Hurricane Harvey — some of which is expected to be tied to the raise of the debt ceiling — and now reach a decision on DACA.

Roughly $ 10 trillion worth of global government debt, in fact, now carry low to subzero yields.

As you can see, although Alberta was the worst offender in terms of the discrepancy between how big the government predicted the deficit was going to be in fiscal 2013 ($ 882 million) and how big it expects it to be now ($ 3.9 billion), it is still the only province without net debt (that is the accumulated total of annual deficits, which, in turn, result from the government spending more than it generates in revenues every year).

«Now, the end of this shift away from government central bank money creation to commercial bank credit creation is that there has to be a bankruptcy — a debt write down.

Ryan Avent pointed out that even if we enacted Trump's massive tax cuts and spending increaes, adding $ 34 trillion in new debt over the next two decades, our ratio of debt to GDP two decades from now would still be 30 percentage points less than Japan's government debt ratio is right now... and the market is still buying their negative interest rate long term debt...

Now he is shutting the government down for three hours because of the debt.

Then there's the Federal Reserve, another one of the government's major lenders, which now owns $ 2.46 trillion of US debt.

Markets are now pricing that close to 20 billion more dollars will come out of Puerto Rico to investors than they were at the end of 2017, following Puerto Rico's own government, which is inexplicably projecting a substantially greater ability to repay debt today than before the hurricane.

The government is now scheduled to absorb the loss of writing off this negative equity, this extra debt that's been loaded onto them.

In addition, large, broad - based indexes such as the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index have become less diversified over time, and now are dominated by U.S. government and agency debt.

Last month I spoke with a very prominent European economist and he assured me that although he now agrees (he used strongly to deny it) that China has debt «problem», he believes it can easily be resolved by «socializing» the debt, by which he means transferring it onto the government balance sheet.

In the current financial circumstances, the federal government could do more now to assist the provinces by providing low cost debt financing.

China is obviously interested in supporting its currency, and since it sold off quite a lot of U.S. Treasuries in the past year — Japan is now the top holder of U.S. government debt — it will likely need to substantially build up its gold reserves.

It now states that Canada will continue to have the lowest total government sector net debt - to - GDP ratio among the G - 7 countries.

From now on, we will be tracking the monthly and cumulative fiscal numbers to see how big those deficits could be and what they mean for the government's goal of a stable debt to GDP ratio

The US government's total debt level now exceeds $ 21 trillion.

Making matters worse is the government's management of the crisis; over the past year, it has persisted in upholding its debt payments, but has now hit a brick wall as its foreign reserves have dwindled to US$ 9 billion.

One major question on Wall Street is if the long - term downtrend in rates has now reversed, how will the government pay for all of this new debt on top of the old debt?

To get Greece's government debt - to - GDP ratio to a more acceptable level, like 120 % (from some 170 % now), Europe's leaders were going to have to reduce Greece's debt burden even more, and that potentially meant having to take a haircut of their own.

Under the B.C. Liberals, ferry ridership has fallen, fares have climbed, debt at the corporation has ballooned, the government has failed to curb exorbitant executive bonuses, and now people up and down the coast are facing devastating service cuts, said Trevena.

Yes, it is in recession, and yes, the government is now going into debt.

The central bought all those bad loans and government debt with made up money over the last decade, but now, they want to market it to the private sector.

It's embarrassing that after a crisis that nobody saw, government policy continues pouring on more gas to fuel more speculation to get things (stocks, real estate, debt) back to the same place we were, or maybe even worse now...

Now, government officials are considering how to rein in costs — and investigate the impact Americans» student debt burden is having on our economy.

For example, when President Reagan cut taxes, government debt was 31 percent of GDP and now that's 106 percent on its way to 120 - 125 percent.

The first one shows the Bank of Japan has now accumulated an impressive 45 % of all outstanding Japanese government debt...

And if most governments in the world have been financing their budgets with debt, the minute the debt deflation hit, that's essentially the bond market saying, «hold on now it's going to cost you a lot more if you want to continue financing your budget».

At the same time, the carry between Chinese interest rates and U.S. Treasury yields has now turned negative, meaning that there is no longer a favorable interest rate differential to encourage Chinese investment in U.S. government debt.

They just don't realize it yet because up until now, the Fed and the Government gave the average American enough rope in the form of easy access to debt to hang himself.

Since Congress has, so far, not acted we are now on the precipice of a much more uncertain and chaotic situation in which Puerto Rico will attempt to selectively cancel debts and bondholders will seek to use the federal courts to block the Puerto Rican government from operating until it pays up.

As a result I am now $ 30,000 in debt (that includes the student loan debt to the government), all that despite the fact that I have been living off of just $ 1,200 per month (well under the poverty level).

Just two and a half months after the US national deficit surpassed $ 20 Trillion for the first time ever, the United States government has now managed to rack up another half Trillion and the outstanding debt of the world's largest economy now stands at...

State and local government retirement debt now totals $ 267 billion, or $ 56,000 per Illinois household.

The true beauty in all this is that as the Swiss government issues more debt at these negative rates, it now essentially owes less than it initially borrowed.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

The government is now to take on the roll of debt collector to «make a profit for taxpayers» by going around and kneecapping the economy — which of course is comprised primarily of the «taxpayers» ostensibly being helped.