Sentences with phrase «long run the government»

Goldman Sachs on Thursday said it reached an agreement in principal to resolve a long running government investigation into its sales of residential mortgage bonds in the run up to the financial crisis.

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The state government will introduce legislation into parliament tomorrow designed to finalise the long - running Bell Group legal case, in which the Insurance Commission of WA and other creditors are fighting over a $ 1.7 billion payout.
Grantham believes it's likely the majority of pension plans will run a long - term deficit, and this will have major policy implications for government.
He adds the political unrest may tempt the government to adopt populist policies that would boost short - term growth, but that could hurt in the long - run.
The basis for the U.S. economic system is private enterprise, because the government has neither the knowledge nor the incentives to make business decisions that in the long run will achieve economic efficiency and growth.
Sunshine Hillygus, who advises the federal government on the census, notes that this question is likely to fuel suspicion on the part of the undocumented that the census will become a political tool to be used against them — with negative implications for both data accuracy and for the long - run reputation of the Census Bureau as a nonpartisan agency.
Whether by private firms or by government, capital investment generates multiple and cascading economic benefits: spending power and job - creation in the short - run, productivity and innovation in the long - run.
«The president is new at this, he's new to government, so he's not steeped in the long - running protocols that's established between DOJ, FBI, and White Houses.
Long - running negotiations between CPB Contractors and the state government have resulted in the CIMIC Group subsidiary signing a $ 47.9 million contract for the New Lord St project at Ellenbrook.
Foreign businesses in China, as well as foreign governments, have long complained about a lack of market access in China and restrictive policies that run counter to its pledges to free up markets.
The moves by the U.S. franchisees are the latest in a long - running feud between Tim Hortons» parent company and its franchisees, which has now drawn the attention of the Canadian government.
(Bloomberg)-- An investment fund that's seeking a payout from the Cuban government on more than $ 1.3 billion in defaulted debt and back interest has hired the lawyer who won a settlement for hedge funds in a long - running legal battle against Argentina.
Long - dated Treasury yields retreated for a second session on Friday, extending a run of buying in government paper, after rates early in the week touched multiyear peaks.
For many investors, the instinctive response is to run for the safety of bonds, especially long - tenured government treasuries, (assuming the sovereign is solvent).
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.
A Bloomberg article suggests that cryptocurrency's big breakthrough in the country occurred in 2016, when scammers conducting a long - running Ponzi scheme known as MMM began demanding payment in bitcoin because the government had started targeting their bank accounts.
Such approaches could be designed to be revenue - neutral over the business cycle; they also could avoid past debates over fiscal stimulus by separating decisions on countercyclical policy from longer - run decisions about the appropriate role of the government and tax system.
«The central banks» plans for printing money to buy bonds from national governments running huge deficits can not be considered a long - term solution to debt problems.»
The federal government has the fiscal capacity to do this without jeopardizing its long - run fiscal sustainability.
There is no narrative that sets out the longer - run economic and social challenges, and there is no discussion of how these challenges are interrelated Eliminating the deficit has been the cornerstone of the government's fiscal policy since 2010.
Until the Federal government can pass a budget (they haven't in almost four years), remove the 7 - year long ZIRP which penalizes savers and rewards debtors, and find a way to eventually remove the excess QEs and > $ 1 trillion annual spending deficits, I will stay on the porch while the «big dogs» run.
The federal government's fiscal position would no longer be sustainable — it would be running a structural deficit which could only be eliminated through program cuts and / or revenue increases.
NO: Continued deficit spending by the federal government is not sustainable over the long run.
The government should let the little guys combine for a real chance to compete and for consumers to benefit over the long run and not just for their next two - year contract.
Ezra Klein: But why don't they... If you've had these conversations, if employers were pushing for what we have in every other country, which is a system the government runs and employers aren't part of, we would have had that system a long time ago.
Refinancing might may a ton of sense for young software engineer just entering the industry, while a public defender or government employee could benefit in the long - run from maintaining their federal loans.
No matter which one you believe has a better shot at replacing government backed money in the long run as a payment method and / or as a store of value, it may be prudent to have some amount of both in your overall portfolio.
Despite any talk of a democratic ICON Republic, in the long run it's hard to imagine the voting rights being dominated by anything other than large financial institutions or governments.
The Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, is another key part of the federal government's long - running «Making Home Affordable» initiative.
In short, equities should outperform government bonds and deliver reasonable returns relative to alternatives over the medium - to - long run.
This means the government must be committed to establishing and maintaining a sustainable medium or longer - term fiscal anchor, one that supports long - run stable economic growth through control of the accumulation of public debt.
According to the Parliamentary Budget Office, the long - run fiscal position of the federal government is not bad at all.
«One of the reasons why economic growth has been weaker in this expansion than others is a lack of government spending now I think that in the short - term negative in the long run I think a move in resources from the government sector to the private sector is positive but it takes a while for that to manifest itself in stronger overall GDP growth».
After Mr. Mandel's retirement, she worked as a Senior Advisor with the Canadian Strategy Group, a government relations company run by long - time PC Party insiders Hal Danchilla and Michael Lohner.
Not long thereafter, Citigroup slipped a repeal of the provision into the must - pass spending bill that would keep the government running through this September.
In this week's edition we look first at American government investment, and how it has evolved over the long run, and how the recor...
SA: Arguably governments and central banks are the most serious threats, as they could make life difficult for Bitcoiners in many places around the world, even though their attempts will likely be futile in the long run.
The long - run interest rate is the yield on U.S. government bonds, specifically the constant maturity 10 - year U.S. Treasury note after 1953.
However, the decision to suspend trading in order to implement better protocols will likely benefit exchanges in China in the long run, as they'll be able to operate for many years to come, without facing other issues, and risking closure by the Chinese Government and its financial authorities.
(If program eligibility were widened, it would have more simulative effect on the economy, but save the government less and potentially lose money in the long run.)
The problem with government officials» recent approach, according to Sarhan, is that «they can't overwhelm market forces... in the long run
As with most changes it takes a while for people to approve of a new norm and while it may make things difficult / uncomfortable for soldiers in the near term it will create a better, more ethical government organization in the long run.
The outstanding example, of course, is the Chinese government's long - running «one - child policy,» replete with forced abortions, public trackings of menstrual cycles, family flight, increased female infanticide, sterilization, and other assaults too numerous even to begin cataloguing here — in fact, so numerous that they are now widely, if often grudgingly, acknowledged as wrongs even by international human - rights bureaucracies.
Countries and societies especially the US are carried away with everything under the umbrella of freedom and rights your governments should learn from third world countries true values and laws.certain lines should never be crossed and such movements need to be exterminated for the sake of youngsters that must learn true values and acts in order to be a well being and not end up in jail and on the long run in hell.
To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.
But the bright hope they gave their people was «don't despair, the road to revolution is long and arduous,» according to the state - run paper Rodong Sinmun — the North Korean government's mouthpiece.
Conservatives think that a large federal government with expensive programs becomes a burden on society that actually can't be sustained and creates worse conditions in the long run.
Keynesian calls for government assistance for business, which in the long run, is a backbreaking for the working man.
Here's a thought — so long as schools are «public», e.g. run by the government, which is supposed to NOT favor any religion, how about we not have ANY religious holidays.
The conflict between the Myanmar government and the Karen and other ethnic groups such as the Karenni, Mon and Shan is considered by many analysts to be the longest - running civil war in the world.
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