Sentences with phrase «rising national debt»

Many concerned citizens point to the rising national debt, and the fact that, on a more personal level, we have hard time avoiding debt.

Further, the Trump Administration and many members of Congress have talked about using economic growth to address our rising national debt.

«The sale of some state - owned enterprises should help lower Vietnam's rising national debt [and] also attract significant foreign direct investment,» Chetan Sehgal, director of global emerging markets and small cap strategies at Templeton Emerging Markets Group, said in an email.

By running the risk of higher deficits, the Trump plan could damage the credibility of Republican lawmakers who spent years railing against the rising national debt under former President Barack Obama.

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The first group of so - called debt hawks sees another Great Recession coming and wants national governments to focus on austerity programs aimed at deficit reduction because rising sovereign debts are behind our current economic woes.

«A rise in the stock market does absolutely nothing to reduce the national debt directly,» Kenneth Rogoff, a Harvard economics professor and former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, told Fortune.

Investors should monitor current events, as well as the ratio of national debt to gross domestic product, Treasury yields, credit ratings, and the weaknesses of the dollar for signs that default risk may be rising.

In the leaked report, the IMF says that Greece's debts threaten to be unsustainable for decades, and that its financing needs will rise so that they are above the 15 % of national income level deemed safe.

They are to pay for their rising debt service not by taxing the population, but by selling public assets to the financial, insurance and real estate (FIRE) sectors — the very sectors which are receiving the growing interest payments on the national debts resulting from lowering taxes on wealth.

The rapid and unrelenting rise in student debt over the past decade has put college affordability and student loan policy at the forefront of the national political conversation.

The well - published national debt issues hurt consumer spending in the West, while rising interest rates, energy and food prices dampened the strong growth seen in major markets in the East, such as China.

Yet this gain (or loss) does not appear in the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA), despite the fact that this is how banks get customers to borrow larger debts to buy homes they hope will rise in price.

And the national debt began its 3,381 % rise to $ 14 trillion dollars.

We can expect to inherit plans for further deep cuts to departmental budgets at a time when the deficit will still be very large and the national debt rising.

Government borrowing and the deficit is revised up this year, next year and every year, and the national debt is rising, it is not falling.

One year on and the deficit is about # 69 billion, with the national debt up to # 1.5 trillion and rising fast.

Britain's national debt will continue rising when the coalition's five years in power comes to a close, George Osborne has admitted in his autumn statement.

Meanwhile, our national debt is rising faster than any country in Europe other than Spain.

'' [Labour] has alarmed the public about our soaring national debt, alerted them to the tax rises needed to pay for it if Labour is re-elected, and so undermined confidence in the future,» said Mr Osborne.

National debt to rise to # 220bn by the end of the parliament due to Brexit, Autumn Statement forecasts shows

Balls: «Government borrowing and the deficit is revised up this year, next year and every year, and the national debt is rising, it is not falling.»

The rapid and unrelenting rise in student debt over the past decade has put college affordability and student loan policy at the forefront of the national political conversation.

Look out for the rise in net national debt, which was expected to hit # 1.36 trillion in 2014/15 but will probably be higher by the end of the day.

Gordon Brown will join Darling to highlight the rise in interest rates if Scotland refused to pay its share of the national debt today.

We expect public sector net debt to hit the government's ceiling of 40 per cent of national income in 2009 - 10 and to rise to 41.2 per cent by 2012 - 13.

[91] This contributed to a significant rise in the deficit to an estimated # 175 billion (12.4 % of GDP) in 2009 — 10 and a rise in the national debt to above 80 % of GDP at its peak.

You might have missed it, because the broadcasters did not use it as a clip in their main bulletins, I don't think, but Balls stumbled over his words and said the national debt was not rising, when he meant to say it was.

«We have inherited from the previous government plans... that envisaged our national debt ratio still rising in the year 2014.

Labour has been calling for a economic plan B, saying the Government's policy of tax rises and spending cuts to erase the national debt cuts «too far and too fast».

Yet over the past two years, his policies have added more than $ 3 trillion to the national debt, much of it through a Stimulus that promised to keep unemployment, now hovering just below double digits, from rising above 8 percent.

Large deficits today mean that the public debt will rise sharply as a percent of national income.

Now we're in a mixed situation — the market has been generally rising, but pessimism still abounds; unemployment is high, debt and deficits are high, and the national housing market is not yet recovering.

While the cost of debt for all REITs is currently cheap, National Retail appears to be very well positioned to continue earning a positive spread on its acquisitions if interest rates begin to rise thanks to its healthy cap rate.

The unbeareable rise of interest rates in the early eighties was an aberration, caused by partly political upheaval in Iran and partly the high inflation, high national debt and budget defficit at the time.

The national debt is now over $ 18 trillion and is rising fast.

With a rising collective national debt that's in the trillions of dollars, $ 15,609 in credit card debt per citizen and a personal student loan debt of $ 32,956, it seems that this is one hole that keeps growing bigger by the year.

Foreclosures fell as property values rose and jobs returned, but for many Californians still trying to repair personal finances following a devastating national downturn, the need for debt - management programs and credit counseling remains acute.

Furthermore, with deficits at record levels and interest payments on the national debt set to rise at a real rate of 13 percent annually over the next 10 years, interest payments could reach $ 725 billion and exceed defense spending by 2018 [13] if not sooner.

[2] Average student debt held by Massachusetts college graduates has risen substantially over the past decade, now above national average.

By 2035, the next generation of families can expect to suffer a loss in net worth of $ 30,000 to $ 40,000; income losses exceeding $ 8,000 per year; energy cost increases of over $ 1,000 annually; and ashare of the national debt that will have risen by more than $ 27,000.

The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is facing massive and rising debt levels.

«Most experts think the general trend is more rates to continue to rise,» says Mitchell Kiffe, co-head of national production for the debt and structured finance group within CBRE Capital Markets.

The National Association of Realtors ® (NAR) has been monitoring the important discussion on the potential implications that rising student debt may have on consumer access to mortgage credit, and more broadly, home ownership.

New analysis of government data by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reveals a connection between rising student loan debt and the onset of the housing slump, and offers yet another example of how lower home values have hurt millions of middle class households and threatens the fragile economic recovery.

Rising rents, qualitative easing (the printing of money), federal spending outpacing revenue, and a national debt equal to roughly 10 percent of Gross Domestic Product are all raising inflationary pressures.

While rising rents and lack of inventory might nudge renters into buying a home, National Association of Realtors ® Chief Economist Lawrence Yun points out that tight credit standards, student debt, and the growth of multigenerational households are contributing to the lowest number of first - time home buyers in decades (as shown in the 2014 NAR Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers).