Sentences with phrase «owning government debt»

This expansion in debt will force all rates higher as investors seek to be compensated for the increased risk of owning government debt.

As if states and municipalities didn't have enough to deal with concerning their own government debt, they will eventually have to deal with a reality that will explode their budget deficits: the low rates of return from their pension investments.

«These people, they set up these quangos, they pass these laws, they introduce these regulations, they insist on this bit of scrutiny, that bit of compliance - and whether it is their own government debts or their own party machine they just don't obey it.»

Not exact matches

America has been able to play the spendthrift because foreign lenders have shown a huge appetite for both our government and corporate debt — they now own $ 6 trillion of our $ 15.5 trillion in publicly owned Treasuries.

Obviously, besides immediately abandoning its propaganda campaign, the Chinese government should reassure the global business community with concrete, honest, realistic, and market - based solutions that address the underlying pathologies of China's poor economic performance: massive debt, endemic overcapacity, and an economic system that channels low - cost capital into inefficient state - owned enterprises at the expense of private entrepreneurs and consumers.

A government that is sovereign in its currency, has no foreign denominated debt and a central bank that can issue its own currency does not have to worry about someone else telling them that they need to raise their interest costs.

Debt obligations issued by agencies of the U.S. federal government or by private agencies, called government - sponsored enterprises (GSEs), which are federally chartered, but publicly owned by their stockholders

China Railway Materials, a supplier of construction materials to the railroad industry, became one of the first companies that is directly owned by the central government to run into debt trouble.

If you operate a small business in the United States or any of its territories, have some capital of your own to invest in your business, and are current with all debt payments to the U.S. government (including your income taxes), you may be eligible for an SBA loan — unless your business falls into one of the ineligible businesses identified by the SBA:

Then there's the Federal Reserve, another one of the government's major lenders, which now owns $ 2.46 trillion of US debt.

Markets are now pricing that close to 20 billion more dollars will come out of Puerto Rico to investors than they were at the end of 2017, following Puerto Rico's own government, which is inexplicably projecting a substantially greater ability to repay debt today than before the hurricane.

The local government's crippling debt of more than $ 73 billion and PREPA's own obligations of $ 9 billion made it hard to keep up with critical maintenance like trimming tree branches away from power lines, let alone make upgrades to make the energy network.

Central Banks can supply commercial banks with liquidity that facilitates interbank payments and payments by customers and banks to the government, but what banks lend is their own debt, not that of the central bank.

Government mortgage programs, such as FHA, have their own rules for debt - to - income ratios and other criteria.

One area that the government has pledged to dramatically overhaul is China's heavily leveraged, state - owned enterprise (SOE) sector, which accounts for 70 per cent of Chinese corporate debt, but only 30 per cent of total economic output.

Premier Silvio Berlusconi's government in Italy was teetering after it failed to come up with a credible plan to deal with its dangerously high debts, and Portugal demanded more flexible terms for its own bailout.

To get Greece's government debt - to - GDP ratio to a more acceptable level, like 120 % (from some 170 % now), Europe's leaders were going to have to reduce Greece's debt burden even more, and that potentially meant having to take a haircut of their own.

Dubai World, a government - owned conglomerate that was the conduit for the country's oil - fueled debt extravaganza that had literally transformed the nation, asked for a «stand still» from creditors in order to extend maturities until May...

This means that Governments around the world will be competing with their own Central Banks to sell debt, and the result could be much higher bond yields going forward.

Its official debt is unpayable, and never should have been forced upon it in the first place — under conditions where the Troika removed the elected prime minister from office to put in their own technocrat (Lucas Papademos, who had worked with Goldman Sachs to falsify the government's 2001 balance sheet to enable it to meet the eurozone's entry conditions).

But regulators, led by the powerful government commission overseeing state assets — known as the State - owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, or SASAC — are pushing for changes in the rules to help heavily indebted state companies cut debts.

Staff economists blamed pressure from eurozone countries protecting their own «banks [that] held too much Greek government debt.

The rest of the $ 21 trillion national debt is owned by either the American people or by the U.S. government itself.

For example, since 2008 China's total debt has surged from 147 % of GDP to 251 %, as the Chinese government turned to debt to stimulate economic growth through its many state - owned banking institutions.

The federal government has unprecedented debt, much of it owned by foreigners.

The U.S. government issues debt in its own currency.

Some of the US debt is owed to Americans - think of the new government money market funds, which own treasuries and are with some brokerages the «default» fund (replacing the old money market funds).

«And that is particularly true when governments are so deeply in debt that they have to cut back their own spending programmes.

The meeting came one day after Mr. Trump had sided with Mr. Schumer in agreeing to a package to provide money for Hurricane Harvey relief, fund the government through mid-December and raise the nation's debt ceiling — bypassing his own Republican allies in Congress.

Certainly the attitude of the UK government has not helped; on one hand urging the eurozone to accept the «remorseless logic» of greater economic and fiscal integration, including Germany taking on liabilities for weaker eurozone states via debt pooling, while on the other refusing to take part in such measures itself and zealously looking after its own self interest.

Worldwide, markets have been roiled thanks in part to the ongoing Greek debt crisis, but also the United States's own issues with government debt and the federal government's inability to determine how to close the budget deficit.

A rising black hole of state - owned enterprise (SOE) debt, which together with the debts owed by government to the bulk oil distribution companies (BDCs) and the lack of adequate supervision of microfinance companies can potentially collapse the banking system.

59 % of people agreed that Labour had «seriously lost touch with ordinary working people» (including 30 % of Labour's own supporters), 70 % that «Labour need to make major changes to their policies and beliefs to be fit for government again» (including 50 % of Labour voters), 61 % agreed that «Labour still haven't faced up to the damage they did to the British economy» and 50 % agreed that «If Labour returned to government they would put the country into even more debt».

The Conservatives will want to paint their own narrative of the last Labour government, of reckless spending pushing the country to the verge of bankrupcy, and have had some success in doing so: 60 % think Labour haven't faced up to the damage they did to the economy, 47 % that if Labour returned to government they'd put the country into even more debt.

Interest on debt, which is a much smaller amount than the other two categories, is the interest the government pays on its accumulated debt, minus interest income received by the government for assets it owns.

Government mortgage programs, such as FHA, have their own rules for debt - to - income ratios and other criteria.

That said, I would be uncomfortable owning Fannie or Freddie here; just because the government might stand behind senior obligations doesn't mean they would take care of the common and preferred stockholders, or even the subordinated debt.

Let me begin it by suggesting that we sell all of our national parks (and other land owned by the US Government) to the Saudis in exchange for forgiveness of our debts.

The recent changes, while in theory aimed at easing the student loan burden for the debtors, are also part of the federal government's move to trim expenses in the face of its own spiraling debts.

Another way to look at mortgage points is to consider how much cash you can afford to pay at the loan - closing table, says Mark Palim, vice president of applied economic and housing research for Fannie Mae, a government - owned company that buys mortgage debt.

All others are on their own and must out of necessity, resort to the consumer already incapable of paying his bills as they become due; too often resulting in debt pooling fraud as demonstrated in Province Newspaper's 2014 Don Antle debt pooling investigation and reporting, which connected debt pooling fraud to weak provincial government (gov» t) regulation and oversight.

Based on a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report you may be better off negotiating credit card debt on your own.

One caveat: Because bond index funds own so much U.S. government debt, where there is little risk of default, these funds should hold up well in financial meltdowns.

The report is at least as much about the sorry state of the global economy as it is about the strength of our own, praising our «comparatively low government and corporate debt» and a «healthier state of public and corporate sector balance sheets.»

If you still don't pay, your school, the financial institution that made or owns your loan, your loan guarantor, and the federal government can all take action to recover the money you owe for your student loan debt.

The fund's investment adviser, Vanguard Fixed Income Group, seeks to outperform the JP Morgan EMBI Global Diversified Index by investing in a broadly diversified portfolio of debt issued by emerging market governments and government - owned enterprises, with a majority of its assets either denominated in, or hedged back to, the U.S. dollar.

If you own property and you have equity, you can use a Government Loan refinance to consolidate or even pay off debts.

Maybe we should stop blaming the government for our own debts?

Student loan debt scam companies prey on desperate borrowers, selling free government services as their own and over-promising debt relief like forgiveness and settlement.

Most states only exempt from income tax interest income originating from obligations of the federal government (treasuries), and their own state debt.