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.
Not exact matches
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.