Sentences with phrase «government issue of money»

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Under this hypothetical policy, governments transfer money directly to taxpayers to encourage spending, a handout funded by issuing bonds with a coupon of zero and no maturity date, which central banks buy.

Issuing bonds is one of the most routine things that happens in today's financial system; governments and companies get a sum of money today and pay interest on it over time, before paying back the principal at some agreed - upon future date, when the bond «matures.»

Since then, Google has been shoveling increasing amounts of money into government lobbying, but has been notably quieter in the public domain on such issues.

The story that bitcoin victims are being sold is that, because we can not trust government - issued currencies, bitcoin is the future of money.

Similar kinds of cases are under way in other parts of the country, including a case on appeal in Chicago after a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction barring the government from blocking grant money typically used to help local police combat violent crime and help victims.

Our society is ingrained with the current monetary system of fiat money, where governments issue it, they can put out as much of it as they want.

Chris Hurt, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., said in a recent presentation that the U.S. Federal Reserve's quantitative easing (that is, the practice of issuing money to buy long - term government debt) likely elevated U.S. farmland prices.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury issues these securities to raise money the federal government uses to run its operations.

The idea here is essentially to work out how to set up cross-border mutual - fund type structures to invest in bonds issued by regional governments and quasi-government authorities, and to show the way with a modest amount of central bank money.

This covers bank savings accounts, certificates of deposit, treasuries (bonds issued by the U.S. government), and money market accounts.

Governments are also getting on board with this idea too and are looking to issue their own cryptocurrencies, represents the new money of the future.

Another important issue is government restrictions of money flowing out, for instance, The Reserve Bank of India, recently announced no resident will be allowed to buy an immovable property abroad as part of a move to curb foreign exchange outflows.

Sovereign Debt is the amount of money that a country's government has borrowed, typically issued as bonds denominated in a reserve currency.

On the issue of how to support Canadian content when fewer Canadians are purchasing cable TV subscriptions, the government tested four options to raise new money for Canadian content: making telecom companies divert some smartphone and Internet revenue; requiring «foreign companies like Netflix and iTunes» to devote a portion of revenues; giving consumers the option of making a voluntary $ 2 contribution on their telecom or Netflix bill; or making telecom companies add an app to every smartphone sold in Canada that would provide access to Canadian music, TV and film for between $ 5 and $ 15 a month or a flat charge of $ 3 on the sale of all smartphones.

He also consulted with the government on the matter by sharing the intent of his bill and discussing various approaches to resolving the issue of dark money in Alberta politics.

The money market mutual fund is a global network of financiers and other investors trading the short - term debt instruments, known as bonds, corporations, and Government Issue to meet these short - term commitments.

But that is what an appreciation in the price of gold is based on; paper money has to fall in value, due to a lack of confidence in the economic stability of the government of the country that issues the currency.

That framework would help move towards greater transparency of cryptocurrency exchange operations, as well as assuage government fears of money laundering, tax evasion, and other similar issues.

Government officials have disputed the details of his imprisonment, saying that he is being investigated for «suspicions of economic issues, including embezzling money.»

Also this week the CEO of SPC Ardmona, Peter Kelly, issued an urgent plea to the new Coalition government for $ 25 million in funding, saying that without the money the company will be forced to close its Shepparton plant.

Most governments weigh the issue of building a convention center with public money as a «loss leader» for the net economic gain of additional tourism dollars, etc..

To ensure irreversibility, we are implementing the following measures to tackle some of the long - term structural issues: a. capping of the statutory funds at 25 percent of government tax revenues b. operationalization of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) to consolidate all government funds at the Bank of Ghana c. tightening of expenditure controls in GIFMIS to minimize inefficiencies and budget overruns d. strict enforcement of the PFM Act, as well as the Public Procurement Act, to ensure efficiency in public procurement, and e. adoption of the competitive tender process, which is eliminating wastage and giving Ghanaian taxpayers real value for their money.

However, when asked on Hot Issues as to who is paying for accommodation, feeding, and transportation of the two ex-detainees, Mr Fennell said: «We are contributing, we're contributing some money towards that and the government of Ghana is making all the arrangements and taking care of them».

After issuing the interim orders, the court also issued 14 days to Sterling Bank and any other interested party to appear and prove the legitimacy of the monies, failing which the funds would be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government.

That's a reference to Teachout's best - known issue, which is money in politics, and the thinking of this analyst is that Faso might be more vulnerable to «government insider» charges from a likely Teachout candidacy than Heaney would be.

«David T.C. Davies: When I last raised this issue, I asked the Secretary of State for an assurance that not one penny of Government money was being given to extremists or to violent extremists.

If Cuomo were serious about «bringing effective change to State government» he'd be dismantling redundant Authorities and consolidating agencies while sending the parasitic top management bureaucrats who infest them out in the street to seek private sector employment, where they belong, forcing the sale of all those SUVs issued to bigwigs at the Office of Children and Family Services to get more money into the State's coffers, and implementing other radical cost - cutting measures.

Challenging Mohammed to explain the sources of APC's 2015 campaign funding, the PDP also demanded the APC - led federal government to come clean on the issue of the $ 1bn Excess Crude money.

«While we challenge this Government to come clean on the issue of the $ 1bn Excess Crude money, we also challenge the minister of information to comment on allegations that the APC funded its 2015 presidential campaign with stolen public funds, particularly from Lagos and Rivers states.

In particular, achieving parliamentary approval for supply — i.e. the ability to spend money — is a make or break issue for a government, akin to vote of confidence.

We didn't need «Rep. Darrell Issa's House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to issue a report saying we're wasting billions of dollars in Medicaid money in NYS.

And at a grand durbar of chiefs of the Upper East Region at Bolgatanga on Wednesday, October 4, on a 2 - day tour of the region Akufo - Addo said, «we [government] are going to ensure that all the money that is mobilized by the government is spent in dealing with the issues that concern our people and that they do not find their way into my pocket or the pocket of my ministers.

Republicans and Democrats have entirely different approaches to the issue, with Republicans willing to slash taxes even at the risk of increasing the federal deficit, and Democrats such as Higgins insisting that tax reform not reduce the amount of money collected by the federal government

The Senate President condemned the practice where agencies of government spend money without statutory approval by the National Assembly and ruled that the issue be debated and resolution taken by the Senate on Wednesday.

After the government shutdown and the startle of debt default, is it possible for the US government to issue bonds, and borrow money from other countries?

Still on the issue of government revenue, the prospect of the Nigerian government generating more money through the Nigerian Customs Service is set to increase with the change of management that was effected recently by the Buhari administration.

But speaking to journalists on the issue on Monday, Dr. Issahaku maintained that the Finance Ministry did not flout the rules, «I think from our stand point here, all government foreign exchange has to be in the custody of the Central Bank and when government need their money, they take the equivalent in cedis,» «The 250 million dollars that was taken out of here, they did not take foreign exchange dollars, the dollars was surrendered to the Central Bank, it was sold to the Central Bank and the government took the equivalent of that in cedis to deposit it elsewhere.

The federal government on Friday issued guidelines for banks seeking to do business with the legal marijuana industry, stopping short of a blanket immunity for them, but strongly indicating that prosecutions for such crimes as money laundering would be unlikely.

Singas said those funds were some of the same monies at issue in Ippolito's federal case — with a $ 400,000 difference because Nassau prosecutors focused on Ippolito's return to a period of government employment that started in 2009.

Consensus leaders have only issued a preliminary report at this point, but Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney said past mergers between the two governments have saved money, such as the consolidation of their purchasing departments.

Ethics in government, big money political corruption, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's culpability, yea or nay on legislative pay raises, are all part of one big sticky ball of garbage with so many points of contact between individuals and issues it's impossible to tease them apart.

«If the government can find the money to postpone it for longer then all the better because it is a big pressure and of course you've also got bus and train fares going up in January too, so the cost of getting to work for people — there's an issue about whether work pays for a lot of low - paid workers.

He told Citi News there were some outstanding issues which the Committee would recommend to Parliament for government to take action to enhance good financial governance and management of public finances to ensure value for money.

He charged that Labour believes there is a bottomless pit of public money for every problem, a government solution for every situation, and a Whitehall initiative for every issue.

The U.S. government will put more money and efforts into studying the issue of global warming, President Bush said today.

In the past, such shutdowns have been the result of partisan battles over how much money the government should be spending, in other words, over fiscal issues.

Non-government schools have accused Grattan Institute researchers of «oversimplifying» education funding issues in a new report that shows how the federal government could offer needs - based funding to schools by 2023 without spending significantly more money.

This new assessment, undertaken by the government's spending watchdog, notes that although # 70 million was spent last year trying to support existing teachers, interventions had been on a «relatively small scale», and just a tiny fraction of the money — # 91,000 — was earmarked to solve workload issues.

A commission chaired by the City of Chicago's Comptroller issued a report earlier this week which said that Chicago can no longer afford its subsidies for government worker retiree health care, which currently cost the city $ 109 million annually but would grow to nearly $ 500 million in a decade thanks to projected increases in the number of retirees and in health care costs.The commission offered Mayor Rahm Emanuel a series of suggestions on how to change the program to save money, including having workers pay a greater percentage of their own health care premiums in retirement, but it also concluded that the city might want to simply end the subsidy program, a move which almost certainly would be challenged in court.

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