Sentences with phrase «public sector debt as»

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Now, as the private sector unwind of debt nears completion, the onus is shifting to the public sector to address bloated debt balances in the year ahead.»

The effect of transfer payments to the financial sector — as well as the $ 5.3 trillion increase in U.S. Treasury debt from taking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac onto the public balance sheet — is to support asset prices (above all those of the banking system), not inflate commodity prices and wages.

«That turned out to be wrong, as a painful process of balance - sheet deleveraging — reflecting excessive private - sector debt, and then its carryover to the public sector — implies that the recovery will remain, at best, below - trend for many years to come.»

But there is something profoundly troubling about speculators in Puerto Rican debt reaping windfalls even as estimates of hurricane damage are revised up, tax reform legislation undermines Puerto Rican competitiveness, out - migration increases, political cleavages increase, layoffs from the public sector are set to increase and outside observers become more pessimistic about Puerto Rico's economic prospects.

Public - sector solutions to resolve the Europe's debt crisis from institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the ECB are «merely bodies exchanging cards in a game of old maid,» Gross added.

In the public as well as the corporate sector, debt extraction is depleting the «wealth of nations.»

To paraphrase Charles Baudelaire's quip that the devil wins at the point where the public comes to believe that he doesn't exist, the financial sector's lobbying effort wins at the point where people believe that running into debt contributes to economic growth rather than burdens it, and that they will end up richer by acting as bank customers.

The charter introduces a target for public sector net debt as a percentage of GDP to be falling at a fixed date of 2015/16.

(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.

However, in 2013, under President Mahamas first year administ ration, the total public sector debt stock as at the end of September 2013 was GHc46.1 billion (53.5 %) of GDP up from GHc35.1 billion at the end of December 2012, Between December, 2012 and September, 2013, former President Mahama's administration added about GHc11 billion to the total debt stock, as against the GHcl6.8 billion the Nana Akufo.

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.

And in exchange we will ask for your help in solving Labour's Debt Crisis by keeping the cost of public sector pay only as high as the country can responsibly afford.

«Scandals and perceived corruption in governance and the society generally, socio - economic hardships such as unstable currency, unstable power supplies — undermining both industrial and domestic ventures — executive bureaucratic delays in the public sector, especially at the ports, many industrial actions, protest demonstrations throughout the economy, sudden and high tariff increases for utilities, and ever - bloating national debt stock, have hall - marked the out - going year,» he observed.

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.»

the PSLF program was introduced by President Obama as a way to help public sector employee struggling with student loan debt.

Before proceeding further, we should note that, since the financial crisis exploded into public consciousness, in September, with the exception of Treasury bonds and other debt explicitly guaranteed by the Treasury such as GNMAs, all sectors of the fixed - income markets have experienced gut - wrenching declines.

Just 40,000 borrowers are enrolled in the «Pay As You Earn» program, which allows borrowers to pay 10 percent of whatever they make above the federal poverty line, and then have the balance of their debt forgiven after 10 or 20 years depending on whether they work in the public or private sector.

These programs are mainly designed to provide relief to fields that come with substantial debt (e.g. physicians, lawyers) as well as those in the public sector that don't typically earn a high salary (e.g. teachers), but it's worth looking into regardless of your profession.

Austerity advocates are knowingly or unknowingly the useful idiots of the bloated financial sector, as artificially limiting government expenditure and giveaways to public assets, makes more room for and dependence upon private debt issuance.

Our client has two excellent opportunities for two self motivated individuals who are looking for a career in finance with the public sector as a Finance officer working alongside our clients Corporate Debt Team.