Sentences with phrase «running a deficit for»

«And I think the Liberals aren't that opposed to running a deficit for a while.

If a company has been running a deficit for the last 2 years you might sell your shares.

To run a deficit for ever?

«And I think the Liberals aren't that opposed to running a deficit for a while.

When everyone was predicting Nintendo's death with the Wii U, Nintendo was sitting on enough cash to run a deficit for decades.

In fact, CU has been running a deficit for years and almost closed its doors a decade ago when I was a student there.

Not exact matches

Higher U.S. yields can put pressure on the currencies of emerging market countries that run current account deficits such as Indonesia and India, said Satoshi Okagawa, senior global markets analyst for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Singapore.

For example, Ontario runs a very large trade deficit with China and a smaller one, though still sizeable, with Mexico.

The charge is absurd, but no more so than the repeated attempts by Mulcair and Trudeau to smear Harper for running «eight - consecutive deficits.»

Grantham believes it's likely the majority of pension plans will run a long - term deficit, and this will have major policy implications for government.

By trying to embarrass Harper for running deficits, Mulcair and Trudeau are playing into the prime minister's hands.

Premier Kathleen Wynne defended the government's pre-election budget, which will run a $ 6.7 - billion deficit in 2018 - 2019, saying Moody's change wasn't a credit downgrade, which would effect borrowing costs for the province.

Let us make no mistake about it: Canada is running a deficit, and it is entirely appropriate for it to do so given the state of the economy.

In January and February, the U.S. trade deficit with those three large economic systems, accounting for about 40 percent of world's demand and output, was running at an annual rate of $ 612.3 billion, a 3 percent increase from the same period of 2017.

Meanwhile, despite our reputation for fiscal prudence, which Flaherty flogs to anyone who will listen, Canada is now running a record deficit of more than $ 55 billion.

«I ran the numbers, and if you doubled the top two rates for the highest earners, you'd cut the deficit by only one - seventh over the next thirty,» he says.

But trade flows appear to be shifting: the U.S. ran a deficit with Canada over the three most recent quarters for which data are available, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

According to Trump's own trade representatives, the answer is no — the U.S. does run a deficit with Canada when it comes to goods, but its surplus in services far outweighs that, leaving an overall surplus of $ 12.5 billion for 2016.

In normal circumstances he believed in a balanced budget and maybe a bit of a surplus for bad times but what he believed was fatal to a nation was running deficit trade imbalances.

Company owners who have large amounts of inventory and run into cash deficits between selling the inventory and the time it takes to get paid can leverage the inventory for a line of credit.

By 1997 - 98 the deficit had been eliminated and the federal government then ran surplsuses for the next nine years.

They believe, perhaps rightly, that Canadians - Conservative, Liberal, or NDP - will never vote for a political party that would run a deficit and incur rising debt.

For much of the nineteenth century, the United States also ran trade deficits and capital account surpluses, but while there were already capital flows driven by investors making independent decisions about where to park their money, roughly 90 percent of the international business done by London banks consisted of trade finance.

U.S. investment exceeds U.S. savings, and the United States runs a trade deficit that is by definition equal to the gap between investment and savings.1 It also runs a capital account surplus equal to the gap because this is the amount of net foreign capital inflow that bridges the gap, and the trade account and the capital account for any country must always balance to zero.

Germany, with which the United States has run a trade deficit for years, is particularly concerned, having been repeatedly named alongside China as a possible currency manipulator.

The Parliamentary Budget Office has been warning that the federal government has been running a «structural deficit» for several years now, and the Conservative government has been dismissing those warnings for just as long.

«The central banks» plans for printing money to buy bonds from national governments running huge deficits can not be considered a long - term solution to debt problems.»

They need legislation that can pass with 51 votes, and for that, they need the bill to not raise the long - run deficit.

Some provisions phase out, presumably to lower the long - run deficit effects for scoring purposes, but that's unlikely to be enough.

However, in order for this not to happen the government would have to run ongoing deficits to stabilize the debt ratio.

With its flexible financial system and the gradual elimination by the 1970s of all capital restrictions, the United States was able quickly to adapt, and began running large trade deficits whose costs, in the form of unemployment and consumer debt, it was willing to absorb for geopolitical advantage, the importance of which soared during the Cold War.

Marc Lee, economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a progressive Vancouver think tank, says that government action on the reforms suggested by labour will be hampered by ideological objections to running deficits in bad times.

His view, as articulated both on Twitter and at Tuesday's press conference with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, is that trade wars are good for the United States — in fact, «good, and easy to win» — because we currently run a trade deficit.

But according to a recent C.D. Howe study, the federal government could run a permanent structural deficit of 1 % of GDP ($ 20 billion) and still maintain a stable debt ratio of 25 %, which happens to be the Conservative government's target for 2022.

The authors acknowledge that the plan will add to short - term deficits but contend that faster economic growth will pay for the plan and reduce deficits in the long run.

Most managers running retail and pension money have no idea what a triple - hook rating means for any company with massive cash flow deficits operating in a financial environment in which the Fed is not printing trillions of dollars that can be recycled into bad ideas.

The problem is for this or other currencies to become international reserves held by foreign central banks, the issuing nation has to run a balance of payments deficit to pump this currency into the global economy.

If you are right about secular stagnation, the nations of the world need their governments to run bigger deficits, at least for now and maybe indefinitely.

America has been running trade deficits for forty years, long before China even became a major trading nation.

If the US were to run a positive current account balance with all of the other 9 largest economies in the world, the chance of the US running large, persistent current account deficits with the entire world would be tiny cuz that'd assume huge surpluses by countries that account for ~ 1 / 3rd of world GDP.

In the 2015 election, Trudeau ran on an economic platform that touted deficit - financed infrastructure spending and a boost in federal benefits for families with kids.

In the short run, the current account deficit is a win / win for both nations.

In there, he discussed how it makes sense for Canada to run a trade deficit with the US cuz it's a large energy exporter to the US.

We will run modest deficits for three years so that we can invest in growth for the middle class and credibly offer a plan to balance the budget in 2019.

More to the point, the United States runs a $ 65 billion trade deficit in goods with Germany, its widest in Europe and third - largest overall — a key sticking point for Trump in his relationships with foreign leaders.

With the federal budget coming soon, it is also worth recalling that the Liberals promised to run deficits of no more than $ 10 - billion for a maximum of three years, but the government's latest projections peg its annual deficits at almost $ 30 - billion with no timeline for returning to a balanced budget.

Last month Centeno survived a standoff with the European Commission (EC), which rejected his first budget for running a fiscal deficit above 3 % of GDP.

Sweeping tax cuts for the wealthy, borrow and spend running up the deficit, protecting these unethical fat cats who are beyond reproach anymore, etc..

In both cases, Conservative parties were defeated by parties promising moderate progressive platforms that included tax increases and significant increases to public infrastructure investment and explicit commitments to run deficit budgets, for at least the short - term period in the case of the NDP.

Although India runs a merchandise trade deficit (2 1/2 per cent of GDP in 2002/03), it has a modest surplus on the current account (0.8 per cent of GDP in 2002/03), owing to sizeable inward current transfers and a surplus for net services.