Sentences with phrase «of government debt»

In the past, the government has also committed to reducing the absolute level of government debt by $ 3 billion annually once the deficit is eliminated.

Here are some examples of government debt relief programs and what you need to know about them.

The biggest factor is the enormous amount of government debt.

In normal times, central banks buy only government debt, and keeps the assets relatively short, at longest attempting to mimic the existing supply of government debt.

He also talked about the ratio of government debt to the size of the economy when asked about the $ 10 - billion deficit promise from the election.

We offer you access to a wide range of government debt relief, financial restructuring programs.

So as the safe haven appeal of government debt reduces while the overall quality of corporate credit improves, it's logical for high - yield credit spreads to tighten.

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

This is how it works: Amid the European economic crisis, you buy up cheap sovereign bonds of government debt, sold at a discount.

The inflation is a result of government debt and printing money.

There are plenty of government debt relief programs to help you better manage your loans.

The Central Asian nation has managed to achieve low levels of government debt, a better balance sheet and faces healthier growth prospects.

the price level is tied down by an equation in any macro model, mv = py, the nkpc in conjunction with an interest rate rule, or the last period real value of government debt for example.

On the dim side, central banks buying lots of government debt has tended to backfire in the past.

Equally remarkably, when Harold Macmillan as new prime minister in July 1957 told the British people that they had «never had it so good», the size of the government debt at that time was 120 % of GDP, far far higher than the debt ratio of about 70 % in 2010 when Gordon Brown was accused of mortgaging Britain's future by profligacy.

Treasury prices grind lower Tuesday, pushing up yields, as U.S. stocks rebound, unwinding haven - relating buying of government debt after a tech - led rout at the start of the week

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The fact that there is a cost to the banking system of holding HQLA, either in the form of government debt or in the fee paid to have access to the CLF, is in keeping with one of the main motivations of the Basel III liquidity regime, namely that banks engage in the appropriate amount of maturity transformation.

The stock of government debt on issue, both Commonwealth and state, is well short of the liquidity needs of the banking system.

Particularly, following the Abenomics and the unprecedented purchases of government debts by Bank of Japan, the yields have been kept low to support growth.

«If somebody is next, the next country would be Italy,» Alexander says — a G7 economy and the world's third - largest issuer of government debt.

The yield on a Treasury bill represents the return an investor will receive by holding the bond to maturity, and should be monitored closely as an indicator of the government debt situation.

That would be every taxpayer's problem, and that's why Canadians deserve to have a full picture of government debt — wherever it might be hidden.

These transfers are done through bankruptcy proceedings, the liquidation of corporate or personal assets under distress conditions and (in the case of government debts) privatization sell offs.

Japan 0.6 percent and they have a huge amount of government debt as a percentage of their economy.

The government's budget had less short - term impact on financial markets, but there is starting to be a clear pattern whereby the closing of the budget deficit (and the stabilisation of government debt) which were supposed to be achieved by 2015 are continuously being pushed further into the future.

One tool that we use to help determine how EM sovereign bonds stack up: our BlackRock Sovereign Risk Index (BSRI) rankings of government debt.

These new CFDs provide exposure to the world of government debt, and have the added benefit of being tradable whenever eligible exchanges are open.

Excess savings and the external surplus are likely to turn into deficits, ultimately eroding the domestic funding of government debt and driving up sovereign default and inflation risks premiums.

The past several years have featured little more than a gigantic asset swap, the short description being that massive volumes of government debt have been swapped by central banks for massive volumes of idle bank reserves, while massive volumes of low - yielding, covenant - lite debt have been issued into the hands of yield - seeking investors, in order to retire massive volumes of corporate equities at elevated valuations through buybacks.

That's dragged yields on $ 7.8 trillion of government debt negative; by contrast, the lowest rated corporate bonds have returned 151 percent since 2008, including 9.4 percent this year through mid-June.

It's all about rearanging the deck chairs on the Titanic ship of government debt.

Others argue it is because of a «safe haven» status, generated by comparing the strength of the UK economy to those operating with the euro, and the continued impact of the Bank of England's quantitative easing programme (which is used to buy billions of pounds of government debt).

This system of centralising the process of government debt collection would help fix the existing mess of limited information about debtors.

@Chad - Are you saying that the holder of government debt simply receives the payment (in their Federal Reserve account?)

Wyoming had the lowest rate, with $ 3,376 of government debt per person.

«My generation is going to have to clean up this mess,» Stefanik said of government debt and spending.

On the last point about the increase in the debt, what is missed is that a lot of the government debt increase is hidden by the non-marketable Treasury bonds held by the entitlement programs.

At the same time, the Treasury has dramatically shortened the duration of the government debt.

In recent years, debt has captured many headlines — whether it's the heavy burden of government debt or the indebtedness of the population at large.

Between 1997 and 2007, before QE began, its holdings of government debt rose by $ 355 billion, and currency in circulation rose by a similar amount.

In this sense, inflation can also be called a forcible way of increasing the money supply (by fractional reserve banking, by monetization of government debt, by counterfeiting, by forgery, etc.) as distinct from the «natural» production of money through mining and minting.

As insurers have gotten better at investing and diversifying out of government debt, they've also been able to lower premiums of term policies.

In a speech to the Manitoba Association for Business Economists on Thursday, Lawrence Schembri said low interest rates have encouraged households to take on debt and higher levels of government debt are largely a legacy of the financial crisis in 2008 - 09.