Sentences with phrase «of economic conservatives»

Both groups contain a fair number of economic conservatives, and the GOP's free market philosophy attracts some of these voters and could attract more.

Not exact matches

David McIntosh, the President of Club For Growth, a Conservative Political Action Committee, called the policy an «affront to economic freedom.»

This means the government will resist taking ownership of economic growth that could fade, while the Conservative and New Democratic parties will continue to exaggerate the weaknesses.

The Conservatives and the NDP will both have new leaders desperate to define themselves by the biggest economic deal of a generation.

Which leaves the Conservatives with little ammunition to defend themselves when bad economic news — like the loss of nearly 46,000 jobs in December — presents itself.

Flake, an Arizona conservative who has frequently feuded with Trump, said in a statement that Trump's «so - called flexible tariffs are a marriage of two lethal poisons to economic growth protectionism and uncertainty....

From bakers to retailers and construction firms, more than a dozen of Mexico's biggest companies cited concerns over NAFTA and the election and issuing conservative guidance in recent weeks, despite economic data pointing to an uptick in Latin America's second - largest economy.

Already in Brazil, the region's biggest economy, President Dilma Rousseff is starting to roll out a more conservative message of austerity, including cuts in unemployment and welfare benefits, to tame a record budget deficit widened by the biggest economic slowdown in 25 years.

Rebels in his Conservative party have urged the prime minister to insist on cuts to EU spending to reflect the bleak economic landscape across much of Europe.

Conservative rebels had urged the prime minister to insist on cuts to EU spending to reflect the bleak economic landscape across much of Europe.

While strict mortgage - lending laws were in place before he took office and they came at a cost — less home ownership and slower economic growth — the state's conservative rules, as WSJ notes, «largely prevented the state's residents from signing the types of dubious home loans written in other markets across the country.»

He noted that the baseline scenario for tests in 2015 — which projected an economic contraction of 2.3 percent for that year — was more dramatic than the 1.3 percent contraction used in the most conservative scenario in the current tests.

Carney's forceful letter to Jenkin comes the day after former Conservative leaders Lord Howard and Iain Duncan Smith launched an aggressive attack on the Remain camp, calling out its «startling dishonesty» and the «woeful failure» of the Bank of England to present a fair economic argument.

His marks on the economy are particularly strong — half of those who voted for the rival Conservative Party, whose core political message is economic competency, give Trudeau a passing grade on the subject.

While the pipelines have become intertwined with the Conservatives» «Economic Action Plan» (their branding of the federal budget), Oliver's natural resources file isn't the only thing that makes him suitable for the position of finance minister.

The speed and strength of Alberta's economic recovery will not only determine the Conservatives» chance of re-election but also have a profound influence on Canada as a whole.

The deal may also be a major political victory for the Harper Conservatives, who have made expanded trade a key plank of their economic agenda.

Keeping on subsidizing southern Ontario businesses and wading into the venture capital game do not exactly square with Flaherty's small - c conservative description of government's proper economic role as «benign and silent.

It's not yet clear who might replace Cohn — potential names being floated include Navarro, conservative economic commentator and former Reagan aide Larry Kudlow, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, former restaurant chain CEO Andrew Puzder, former Federal Reserve Gov. Kevin Warsh, and Shahira Knight, Cohn's deputy.

With her opportunity, Conservative MP Tilly O'Neill - Gordon chose to congratulate the «Minister of Economic Action Plan 2013» on his effort.

The idea of turning their keys over to today's Congressional conservatives seems an act of willful economic destruction.

Conservative MP Jason Kenney is a member, as are Brian Lee Crowley, head of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and Michel Kelly - Gagnon of the Montreal Economic Institute, the second and third most important right - wing think tanks after the Fraser Institute.

The Conservative government's sole economic policy objective has always been the elimination of the deficit.

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Louis - Philippe Rochon Associate Professor, Laurentian University Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics Follow him on Twitter @Lprochon Mr. Harper and the Conservatives never miss an opportunity of reminding Canadians that we should vote for them in October in order to ensure economic prosperity in the future.

The Conservatives are stressing their supposed credentials as «economic managers» in their strategy to win a majority — combined with fear - mongering about a future coalition (although that latter part of the strategy may be backfiring on them).

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Despite the unforeseen fall in oil prices in 2014, the Conservative government, with a lot of slight of hand (reduction in contingency reserve, selling GM shares at fire sale prices, optimistic economic and oil price assumptions), produced a budget that financed all of its pre-election promises, while still leaving a surplus of $ 1.4 billion in 2015 - 16 rising to $ 4.8 billion in 2019 - 20.

Conservatives argue that the bulk of a tax cut should go to the wealthy since they carry such a disproportionate amount of the burden; besides, they're more likely to invest their tax cut instead of spending it, and investment is where economic growth comes from.

OTTAWA — Government House Leader Peter Van Loan is using the return of Parliament to boast about the Conservatives» economic track record — but OECD figures cast a small doubt over his claim that Canada tops the G7 in job creation.

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Louis - Philippe Rochon Associate Professor, Laurentian University Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics With the tabling of a new federal budget on April 21, the Conservatives are trying to reinvent themselves as good economic managers, stalwart of sound finance.

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The Conservative's economic growth strategy has been based on reducing the size and relevance of the Federal government in the management of the economy for the past eight years.

«The economic policies of his that are pretty much traditionally conservative I like....

«As we prepare to come back to Ottawa for the fall session of Parliament, it is also important to ensure Canadian middle class families understand the threat posed by Thomas Mulcair's risky and dangerous economic plan,» said the memo, from Conservative national campaign manager Jenni Byrne.

More conservative investors... should dollar cost average in and be fully invested by no later than November, when the stock market will likely be rallying in anticipation of an improving economic environment in 2010.

The Conservatives, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, have said Canada is feeling the sting of economic problems around the world, including the crisis in Europe and slower - than - predicted growth in the United States.

The Economic Action Plan website, touting the Conservative's big - spending budget of January 2009, was criticized from the outset for its

Specifically, the FOMC is opting to retain its easy monetary policies, but undertake no new initiatives at this time, Perhaps the Fed went this more conservative route in view of the somewhat better news out on the economic front over the past few weeks, notably the generally improving housing metrics, the pickup in June's personal income, and the surprising uptick in the Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index for July issued yesterday.

The Conservatives put all of our economic eggs in the resource - extraction basket and now that that sector is having considerable difficulty, it's affecting everything else in the Canadian economy.»

Prime Minister Harper and our Conservative government have a proven record of bringing our taxes down, creating jobs, balancing the budget, and leading our country successfully through global economic turmoil.

The government has been warned many times that, after 2015, the combination of an aging population and the resulting impact on economic growth and government revenues and expenses will result in ongoing deficits and increasing debts — a fact the Conservatives have failed to acknowledge to date.

If Canadians become more focused on economic risks, the thinking goes, they will pay less attention to the Duffy scandal, and they will be more cautious when casting their ballot. In this world - view, it actually helps the Conservatives to talk up bad economic news. This marks a U-turn from earlier messaging, when Conservatives first tried (futilely) to deny the economy was in any trouble at all. With the negative numbers piling up around them, the Tory spin machine has decided to throw in the towel, and try to make a silk purse from this sow's ear. They now want to emphasize the gloomy economic outlook (while simultaneously, of course, evading blame for contributing to it at all).

Yet this isn't the first time in the present campaign that the Conservatives themselves have trespassed on traditional Bank of Canada terrain. On July 22 Joe Oliver publicly rejected the use of quantitative easing in Canada (the unconventional credit - expanding strategy that has been used successfully in the US, the UK, and now Europe) despite dimming economic projections here. Decisions about the use of QE should, in theory, be the purview of the central bank. Several economists publicly questioned Oliver's statement, noting that it throws into question the Bank's future decisions on monetary policy.

Both Sandra Jansen and Donna Kennedy - Glans appeared to be willing to challenge the status quo thinking in Alberta's conservative establishment, with Ms. Jansen even questioning the holy grail of Alberta's past economic prosperity.

Going further, it will be blamed on capitalism, and the backlash against conservative economic policies will be so severe that 2020 or 2024 could mark the beginning of full - blown socialism in America.

The last long - term fiscal sustainability report was released by the previous Conservative government, as part of its November 2014 Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections.

Former Conservative Garth Turnerâ $ ™ s decision to join the Liberal caucus is one of several recent news items that highlight the extensive similarity between these two parties on economic policy.