Sentences with phrase «public borrowing as»

The Maastricht Treaty of 1992 and the Stability and Growth Pact imposed restrictions on EU member states» levels of public borrowing as a precondition of the establishment of European Monetary Union.

Not exact matches

As I tried to illustrate in the comments above, the government has to obtain the funds it spends from some source - the nonbank public through taxes or borrowing or from the Fed and depository institutions.

[154] In addition, Corzine has served as Co-Chair of the National Commission on Capital Budgeting under President Clinton, Chairman of the Treasury's Government Borrowing Committee and Chairman of the Public Securities Association.

Borrowing to complete an undergraduate, graduate, or professional degree program is often the only means to pay for the cost of higher education, as the price tag continues to increase at public and private institutions alike.

For example, federal loans can often be a better option for borrowing — even if you could get a lower interest rate on a private student loan — because federal loans have advantages private loans don't have, such as the opportunity to choose income - driven repayment plans or qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

In this environment, policymakers would do well to not only be cautious and forward - looking in managing the level and structure of public borrowing, but vigilant about detecting and defusing potential build - ups of vulnerabilities in the private sector as well (and, as our unfortunate experience shows, off - balance sheets as well as on).

In addition, cities, states, and taxpayers have concerns about the costs of bonds and borrowing, how to get the best return on banked or invested public money, and an interest in finding innovative ways to fund public spending without surrendering public control, as is often the case with public - private partnerships.

Although I don't pretend to understand all the «ins & outs» of banking, public financing, etc., it seems to me to be self - evident that if Canadian governments at all levels were able to borrow, at low or preferably no interest rates, to finance infrastructure projects and other issues such as health care and education, rather than indebting Canadians in perpetuity in order to pay big interest payments to the greedy Big Banks, it would ultimately be in the best interests of most ordinary Canadians.

The central bank's foreign reserves have dropped by $ 36bn, or 5 per cent, over the past two months, as newly crowned King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud dips into Riyadh's rainy - day fund and increases domestic borrowing to fund public - sector salaries and large development projects.

In a recent Raddon study, Lending Insights: Loan Demand Rebounds but Challenges Persist, we find that yes, the borrowing public is aware of the rate environment and motivated as a result.

Jones» Sandy Hook conspiracy borrows emotional weight from the gun control debate, as he claims that the massacre was orchestrated to strong - arm the public into accepting stricter firearm regulations.

Finally, the report noted that state and local revenue gains from federal tax reform will be further offset by higher costs for state and local borrowing, resulting from tax reform, and greater demand for public services as charitable donations drop and federal budget cuts continue.

The big banks, having caused the crisis in the first place and led governments to borrow vast sums to come to their aid, have successfully redefined the resulting fiscal deficits as entailing cuts to public spending and social protection.

The UK government remains committed to austerity measures such as the cap on public sector pay; but in a speech on 20 June 2017 Chancellor Philip Hammond acknowledged public discontent with austerity, and suggested the government would consider increased borrowing to invest in economic growth.

(a) Expanding the Green Investment Bank's scale and remit as fast as possible, including relaxing the restriction on its ability to borrow before total public sector debt begins to fall.

The Labour government was also accused of concealing large amounts of public borrowing through schemes such as the Private Finance Initiative.

The Public Sector Net Cash Requirement (PSNCR) was formerly known as the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement (PSBR).

However, throughout the second half of the 20th Century, national debt and public sector borrowing emerged as a structural problem in most developed economies, with large deficits being run year after year, as the role and «size» of the state has grown.

Public Authorities in some ways have controlled the growth in spending but they also continue to serve as vehicles for back door borrowing, according an ABO report.

The Chancellor will predict that public borrowing will soar to # 76bn in the financial year as the Government's revenues plummet, and then increase to a record # 118bn next year as the recession bites.

State lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have the ability to borrow as much as $ 1.1 billion for projects to help local governments and public agencies, like libraries and fire departments.

Ghanaians and the business community were shocked with the manner in which the $ 2.25 B bond was issued in March 2017 as it was done in secrecy (lack of transparency) and not in conformity with the guidelines for public borrowing and Article 181 of the 1992 Constitution.

Such as the fact that this budget increases new debt by $ 8.7 billion, funneled largely through public authorities — known as back - door borrowing, because it stays off the state's books.

They tell a story of more public borrowing and more private borrowing, even as public and private investment is squeezed.

The party's leader Nick Clegg told a conference rally in Bournemouth they had to be «realistic» about the promise to abolish tuition fees, as new figures out today show total public borrowing has risen above # 800bn for the first time.

Public authorities, run by his appointees, can borrow with state taxpayers» backing without requiring voter approval, as when the state holds a referendum for a major bond act for transportation or environmental projects.

The report from state Controller Thomas DiNapoli found that there are 1,192 quasi-governmental public authorities in the state and they are often used by officials to conduct what is known as «backdoor borrowing,» which has less public scrutiny than traditional borrowing.

As he probed News International's extensive dealings with leading politicians over five premierships, extensive and sometimes cosy (Labour slumber parties, Tory country suppers and borrowed police horses), the judge detected «patterns of behaviour» suggesting that public policy decisions were also sometimes traded for favourable treatment in Fleet Street.

As Chancellor, he raised huge sums and borrowed yet more in order to build a client state of tame Labour voters on the public payroll — whether as employees or claimantAs Chancellor, he raised huge sums and borrowed yet more in order to build a client state of tame Labour voters on the public payroll — whether as employees or claimantas employees or claimants.

Public sector pensions are unaffordable, we have no money, but as long as «WE» keep borrowing and spending, then Brown can say «HE» has done a good job of pulling us through the crisis which «HE» started.

It lasted 55 minutes - forecast public borrowing will total # 149bn this year and raised VAT to 20 per cent - as Chancellor George Osborne hit the Commons dispatch box 85 times.

Testifying on Wednesday, state treasurer Bill Lockyer called CABs «foolish policy» and said they should be banned as a borrowing tool for public education.

The Aura supports EPUB and Adobe DRM, so you can borrow books from your public library and load books you've downloaded from sites such as Gutenberg.org.

The Mini supports EPUB, MOBI and Adobe DRM so you can borrow books from your public library and load books you've downloaded from sites such as Gutenberg.org.

As I said in a previous post, once again I'm dependent on public library borrows for most of my books, and though they have access to some eBooks through Overdrive, most of the books I'm looking for are not among them.

OverDrive, whose ebook borrowing app continues to be the top - rated large - scale lending app by iOS and Android users, has enjoyed a fairly solid run as not only a content provider to academic and public libraries, but also in other ways.

In terms of ebooks, Kobo was the first company to allow you to borrow and read directly from the public library, as long as they used Overdrive.

Once a reader eventually locates a book of interest, affiliate sales options are given, as well as information on borrowing the ebook from the user's local public library.

Not only does Open Library have over one million public domain books available as digitized Adobe downloads, but they also now work with libraries and publishers for a book borrowing program in BookReader, PDF, and ePub formats.

As of today, Penguin has come back and told OverDrive it will allow its titles to be available to Kindle users, as well as the other e-reader device patrons who've been borrowing ebooks through their local public libraries all alonAs of today, Penguin has come back and told OverDrive it will allow its titles to be available to Kindle users, as well as the other e-reader device patrons who've been borrowing ebooks through their local public libraries all alonas well as the other e-reader device patrons who've been borrowing ebooks through their local public libraries all alonas the other e-reader device patrons who've been borrowing ebooks through their local public libraries all along.

Large majorities of those under age 30 say it is «very important» for libraries to have librarians as well as books for borrowing, and relatively few think that libraries should automate most library services, move most services online, or move print books out of public areas.

A heartening 99 % say they visit their public library in person as opposed to just borrowing electronic content online, and 66 % also visit their library online.

As a librarian, I have some issues with the program, because the public face of this program is the Kindle Owners» Lending Library, where Kindle Owners can, well, borrow an ebook from Amazon without buying it.

As more and more readers explore digital reading, they are turning to their public libraries and finding that the titles simply aren't available for borrowing.

However, many people do get free access to books from public libraries, by borrowing from friends, or as pass - alongs and hand - me - downs.

Although the old - school way of borrowing remains a useful and viable way to check out some titles, one of the more useful aspects in making the switch from dead - tree books to an e-reader should be the ability to easily borrow e-books from public libraries as well.

That means it works with Project Gutenberg and other Web sites that contain free e-books, as well as electronic borrowing from the local public library.

And second, because I've also hit that wall where books that I want to borrow are either on long waiting lists (although here in Brooklyn, I haven't hit waiting lists quite as long as the 20 + that are cited for the New York Public Library in the article) or, more often, are simply not available at all.

As people unwrap their new tablets and eReaders and begin to explore, the number of digital books borrowed from public libraries across the country will increase.

The devices also take advantage of Amazon's new deal with public libraries, allowing you to borrow books on the device as you would a hardcopy.