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And, given America’s political polarization and policy gridlock, we can expect more fights on the budget and the debt ceiling, another rating downgrade, and no agreement on a path toward medium-term fiscal consolidation and sustainability – regardless of whether President Barack Obama is reelected in November.
Moreover, the closure of local-government financing platforms, together with the credit
ceiling
imposed by the central government, has caused local capital spending on investment in infrastructure to drop to a historic low.
And, as Anatole Kaletsky has stressed, ten-year Treasury yields did not break the 3% ceiling, while exchange rates hardly moved, all of which suggests that rumors of inflation have been greatly exaggerated.
The Democrats had argued that the increase in the debt
ceiling
and extension of appropriations should last for only three months, thus forcing the Republicans to take electorally risky votes before the 2018 elections.
Defaulting to Big GovernmentWASHINGTON, DC – Leading United States congressmen are determined to provoke a showdown with the Obama administration over the federal government’s debt
ceiling.
With the debt
ceiling
unchanged, this would require some legal sleight of hand.
The House and Senate Republicans who do not want to raise the debt
ceiling
are playing with fire.
While affluent white women, or women of any background who managed to get a high-quality education – America’s Hillary Clintons, Madeline Albrights, and Condoleezza Rices – broke through the glass ceiling, and even have the women’s movement to lionize them, working-class white women have watched their rise with understandable resentment.
Their
ceiling
is made of concrete, and it is pitched far lower over their talents and their mobility.
The second component of a permanent anti-crisis mechanism is a floor for bond prices – and thus a
ceiling
for losses.
Coming so shortly on the heels of the subprime crisis, the debate over the debt
ceiling
and the budget deficit is the last straw.
It is time to break the WHO’s African-leadership glass
ceiling.
As for the US, Moody’s recently issued a warning on the country’s sovereign debt in the face of uncertainty about Congress’s willingness to raise the debt
ceiling
amid highly partisan debate about the deficit.
Both issues – the debt
ceiling
and a credible deficit-reduction plan – remain unresolved.
Breaking the Asia-Pacific region’s glass
ceiling
will require dismantling several barriers, including cultural expectations that women should prioritize childcare over their careers, a lack of suitable or affordable childcare, unconscious bias in the workplace, and a scarcity of role models and sponsors.
But now America’s debt
ceiling
has become the subject of intense political posturing and touch-and-go negotiations behind closed doors.
Beyond this ceiling, the government can spend only from current revenues.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner recently informed members of Congress that the government will be in this situation on or around August 2.Having already officially hit the ceiling, the Treasury is moving money around and tapping various pots of unused funds to pay its bills.
With the US government now borrowing around 40% of every dollar it spends, a truly binding debt
ceiling
would immediately force the government to reduce spending radically and in a disorderly fashion.
The overwhelming – and sensible – expectation is that the two parties will compromise and raise the debt
ceiling
before inflicting serious economic and financial dislocations.
But the more their politicians argue over the debt ceiling, the greater the risk that the wiring will become irreparably frayed.
But it’s worth recalling that in the post-1945 period, fully one half of all defaults by emerging-market economies took place at debt-to-income levels below the Maastricht Treaty’s
ceiling
of 60%.
If America’s debts had truly become less trustworthy, they would have been even more dubious before the agreement reached on August 2 by Congress and President Barack Obama to raise the government’s debt
ceiling.
The last-minute agreement to raise the US debt
ceiling
and reopen the government has left Republican Party extremists in a weakened position, while President Barack Obama has emerged strengthened.
A similar battle is now brewing about America’s “debt ceiling,” which, if unresolved, introduces the risk of a “technical” default on US public debt.
The accession countries had to decide the optimal timing for eurozone enlargement - a difficult task, because economic theory gives no clear answers in this respect, and because several accession countries are wrestling with fiscal imbalances well above the Maastricht Treaty's
ceiling
of 3% of GDP.
For ten years, it has struggled with the costs of a mandatory 35-hour week – a
ceiling
that is now so embedded in the legislation regulating working hours that simple abrogation would lead to chaos.
A US Congress engaged in political grandstanding might fail to raise the debt ceiling, triggering a technical default.
In this newly competitive environment, oil will trade like any normal commodity, with the Saudi monopoly broken and North American production costs setting a long-term price
ceiling
of around $50 a barrel, for reasons I set out in January.
The Trump administration would set a
ceiling
on the US trade deficit each year, and then impose limits on major US trading partners’ surpluses.
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