Sentences with phrase «policy moves over»

WASHINGTON — President Trump's major policy moves over the course of his first year in office have had a common denominator: They either overtly favor his base of support — the roughly one - third of voters who solidly back him — or they appear to penalize those states that vote Democratic.

Not exact matches

In fact, the minutes note that «some participants viewed the actual and expected progress toward the [Fed's] goals as sufficient to call for a relatively prompt move toward reducing policy accommodation to avoid overshooting the [Fed's] unemployment and inflation objectives over the medium term.»

The Fed has been working to normalize monetary policy over the past two years, beginning with its initial move off historically low, near - zero rates in December 2015.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration this week will unveil the list of Chinese imports targeted for US tariffs to punish Beijing over technology transfer policies, a move expected to intensify trade tensions between the world's two largest economies.

From 1987 when Greenspan took over for Volcker, our economy went from 150 percent debt to GDP to 390 percent as we had these easy money policies moving people more and more out the risk curve.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The Trump administration this week will unveil a list of advanced technology Chinese imports targeted for U.S. tariffs to punish Beijing over technology transfer policies, a move expected to intensify trade tensions between the world's two largest economies.

Mr Weber's concerns over monetary policy were supported by Nouriel Roubini of the Stern School at New York University, who had backed the initial moves towards unorthodox policies such as quantitative easing in the financial crisis.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

With Hillary Clinton's tax proposals to encourage longer - term investing, the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. primary season.

The moves higher in global stock markets have been accompanied by a recovery in oil prices to over $ 48 a barrel, receding worries about the Chinese economy, and the U.S. Federal Reserve indicating it is in no hurry to tighten policy.

G - 20 Finance Ministers and central bankers meeting in Baden - Baden over the weekend dropped a long - standing reference to the pursuit of free and open trade and the rejection of protectionism in their official commnique, a move many saw as a swipe at U.S. - focused trade policies pursued by the Donald Trump administration.

Bernanke publicly acknowledged this week a policy conflict with the Treasury over its move to lock in low borrowing costs, which is working at odds with the central bank's efforts to lower long - term interest rates.

But economists and professors cast doubt on whether tax policy changes were the driving force behind the move by a retailing giant that for years has stood as a lightning rod for criticism over low worker pay.

It's our view that volatility should increase as the world moves from the pervasively synchronized easy monetary policy that we've seen over the past several years to the policy divergence that is showing up today.

Being the center of political activity in the U.S. means that this city is shaped by people from all over the country who move here to work as congressional aides, lobbyists, policy analysts, reporters, elected officials, bureaucrats, organizers, etc..

After attracting criticism over what were widely seen as premature moves to tighten monetary policy before the start of the eurozone crisis in 2011 — 2012, it seems more likely the ECB will be inclined to err on the side of caution this time around.

After attracting criticism in the past over what were widely seen as premature policy moves, it seems more likely the ECB will be inclined to err on the side of caution this time around.

Looking back over the past 25 years, a period of low and stable inflation, stock / bond correlation has generally moved in tandem with monetary policy, as measured by the effective federal funds rate.

Reagan - era populist conservatives showed that it was possible for the party to move «right» on taxes, welfare, and foreign policy and win over the persuadable voters that the establishment believed could only be won by moving left.

What he does and says while he is here will not move the needle even one degree on the struggles over the death penalty, abortion and Planned Parenthood funding, the marriage and religious freedom issues, immigration policy, the international arms trade, or economic policy and social welfare programs.

The Spain international has been linked with a move to Bilbao over the past couple of seasons with the La Liga outfit holding the unique policy of recruiting players born in the Basque Country.

Our members have helped move forward paid Family Leave policies in cities, counties and states across the nation, have helped pass affordable childcare policies in red and blue states alike, have also helped advance sick day policies in over a dozen cities and states across the nation, as well.

Over the last several months, Cuomo has been critical of Trump's policies on immigration and the tax law approved in December that caps state and local tax deductions at $ 10,000 — a move seen as hindering high - tax states like New York.

The Trump administration this week will unveil the list of Chinese imports targeted for U.S. tariffs to punish Beijing over technology transfer policies, a move expected to further intensify trade tensions between the world's two largest economies.

This sweeping agreement to move a central economic policy choice — argued over by politicians and economists alike for much of the last 80 years — out of the remit of democratic politics is an extraordinary moment in European politics.

If the controversial school closings it has rubberstamped for the mayor — over the protests of countless community members — wasn't enough to convince New Yorkers that the Panel for Educational Policy, dominated by mayoral appointees, is broken beyond repair, then perhaps its most recent move, approving a $ 120 million contract with Verizon, will be.

With reports trickling out of Albany that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has reached a tentative deal with lawmakers over the state budget and education reforms, local educators are calling for an independent commission to help develop policy moving forward.

As Damian McBride's memoir reminds us, Miliband «effectively threatened to resign from the cabinet» over the planned third runway at Heathrow, a move that successfully torpedoed the policy.

McBride confirms that Miliband «effectively threatened to resign from the cabinet» over the planned third runway at Heathrow, a move that successfully torpedoed the policy.

Mr Blair has taken the unusual step of briefing newspapers over his concern that the Liberal Democrats will get nowhere if they move to the left of Labour, adopt a policy of demanding higher taxes and become more critical of his party's efforts to tackle measures such as social exclusion.

This is why the EU wastes so much money moving the EU parliament to France all the time, because France vetoes a change in this policy, so lots of money and time is wasted over protectionism.

The new chancellor is cast in the same mould as his predecessor - bar - one, Alistair Darling, who also followed on from an all - powerful and media - savvy treasury chief willing to roam over other policy briefs while coveting a move next door.

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP)-- A legislative ethics committee has dismissed a complaint against an Alaska lawmaker over his «aggressive use» of the Legislature's moving policy.

In a move that is controversial with some Keynesian economists, Labour is committed to «a fiscal policy framework that broadly states that the Government should borrow for investment (the capital account) and that over the business cycle Government day - to - day spending (the Government's current account) should be in balance».

Disagreements over how Congress should proceed on ending the military's «don't ask, don't tell» policy are dividing gay rights groups as lawmakers are set to decide this week how to move forward on the issue.

Labour's leadership has prevented what it sees as a premature vote on Brexit policy off the conference floor - because this might have exposed the still - important fault - line within the party over how far and fast to move towards rejecting Brexit.

While there have been major debates this year over Cuomo's plan for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage and a family leave policy, talk about workers» compensation has been relatively muted — perhaps because of its complexity and number of moving parts in the system.

The continuing debate in Buffalo schools over a policy for transgender students drew such a large crowd Wednesday night that the meeting was moved from the usual, cramped board room to the much larger Common Council Chambers.

While the Buffalo police is updating its policies and procedures to comply with the state program in areas like administration and property maintenance, changes to its training in the use of force and firearms will happen only once police move to their new headquarters over the summer.

For the first time, more English people than Scots back Alex Salmond's move to break up Britain — 25 per cent compared with 23 per cent — and while support for the policy has been declining over the years north of the Border, the opposite is true in England.»

The NPP flagbearer noted that he is not into the politics of deception, as the NPP has proven time and over to possess the policies and programmes needed to move this country forward.

In the trench warfare over Labour's defence policy, he moved forward by a whole trench.

Barack Obama the department has been moving ahead with developing a «consent - based» waste storage policy that does not force states to accept any waste against their residents» wishes, and if they do accept it, their residents will have a say over how it is done.

Now, ready to make her next career move in science policy, Boehlke looks back over the lessons she has learned over the past 2 years.

«Over the years, we have moved research and innovation out of their silo and embedded them in other policy areas.»

Moving ploddingly between the hijackers and the Israeli cabinet as both groups argue over their respective principles and policies, 7 Days throws a somewhat baffling additional subplot about an Israeli dance troupe into the mix.

But over time, a bottom - up consensus emerged that federal policy should move toward a more restrained approach, and that approach was eventually enacted into law as ESSA.

With policy moving to offer increased control for states and districts over spending, advocacy for desired prevention programs and comprehensive school reforms must be well coordinated, communicated, and executed.

Debate over school choice will move from the policy arena to the courts following the passage of legislation last month that made Ohio and Wisconsin the first states to approve tuition vouchers for children who attend religious schools.

The move marks the latest battle between states and the Obama administration over what has been perceived to be heavy - handed federal education policy that will continue for the next few years.