Sentences with phrase «running a record deficit»

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.

China and India thumb their nose at us and tell us America has to fix the probelms of the world — even though they are both running substantial surpluses while we are running record deficits.

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The government would like to run on a record of good economic management, defined as simply eliminating the deficit.

North Korea also ran a near - record trade deficit of $ 1.96 billion with China in 2017, the NIS reportedly informed the National Assembly on Monday, owing to United Nations Security Council sanctions banning exports of goods including coal, marine products and garments.

Having received millions of dollars in grants and earmarks from government and private enterprise, the ADC appears to run large deficits, despite a track record of profitable real estate transactions.

Previous ads run in the primary also highlighted Faso's fiscal record of cutting taxes and closing budget deficits and outline his key reform principles to help small businesses, notably simplifying the tax code, ending corporate welfare, investing in small businesses and ending Washington's regulatory madness.

A fortnight after Miliband was criticised for omitting passages of his planned conference speech which dealt with the deficit, the 19 % of voters signalling trust in Labour to run the economy equals the party's previous record low on this question, which was recorded in June 2013 (pdf).

The auditor estimated that the system was running a $ 25 to $ 30 million deficit, but couldn't be certain because of the shoddy quality of the financial records.

We have had political scandals, economic crisis, been run by Democrats and Republicans, who have both given us record budget surpluses and record budget deficits.