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In March, they filed a federal lawsuit against Yale, alleging that its “failure to address incidents of sexual harassment and sexual assault has created a ‘hostile environment.’”
The students’ complaint coincides with a federal investigation by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which announced that it would review Yale’s policies for dealing with sexual harassment and sexual assault.
This is no small matter: Yale and other American universities receive millions of federal dollars annually – money that would be jeopardized if the university was found to tolerate an unequal learning environment.
The US has an enormous current-account deficit because the federal government’s dissaving (i.e., the fiscal deficit) drags down America’s overall national saving.
The US federal government’s borrowing exceeded tax revenues in every year since the end of World War II.
Some US federal agencies are trying to spend ten times their previous budgets – not a recipe for efficiency or speed.
For example, US law hampers the federal government’s ability to protect critical infrastructure and key resources from cyber attacks.
And Treasury bonds are secure: the federal government has not fallen into arrears on its debt since the disastrous War of 1812.
Here, then, and not in another imbroglio over the federal debt ceiling this coming December, is where the real threat to the dollar’s international dominance lies.
Known as the “Bhagwati Tax,” it is of course “the American way”: US citizens and permanent residents abroad, like those at home, must pay federal taxes.
It also subtracted federal taxes, which fell from 19% of pretax income for middle-income households in 1980 to just 11.5% in 2010.
Bush had the opportunity to appoint not only two Supreme Court justices, but also an unprecedented number of judges in the lower federal courts.
There is another reason Shia, Sunnis, and Kurds won’t move immediately to undermine federal authority: the central government in Baghdad won’t have the legal or economic means to challenge their local power.
But, in the longer term, those limits on federal power will push Iraq toward a sectarian scramble for power and revenue.
Article 11 of the new constitution declares that “All that is not written in the exclusive powers of the federal authorities is in the authority of the regions.”
This should be seen as a betrayal of many Trump voters in the rural areas of relatively poor states and the Rust Belt cities of the Midwest, where people most need the federal government’s help to remain solvent and healthy.
In their obsession with low corporate and personal taxes, and their loathing of organized labor and the federal government, rich donors, such as the brothers Charles and David Koch, or the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, appear to be manipulating Trump, rather than the other way around.
Once the bill becomes law, federal regulators will have the right and the responsibility to limit the scope of big banks and, as necessary, break them up when they pose a “grave risk” to financial stability.
When it comes to tackling climate change, the United States has produced no federal mandate explicitly requiring or even promoting emissions-reductions targets.
The main idea is to reduce the risks that can be taken by any financial institution that is backed by the federal government.
Sanders is temperamentally unsuited for the role of subordinate, and their policy disagreements reflect deeply held views about the role of the federal government.
In Brazil, for example, federal senators are elected for an eight-year term.
In fact, according to a 2016 World Economic Forum survey, citizens in democratic countries trust their leaders less than those elsewhere, while a 2015 Pew survey found that more than 80% of US citizens do not trust the federal government to do what is right consistently.
Lacking any semblance of a strategy to boost savings – not just a long-term fix to the federal government’s budget deficit, but also meaningful incentives for personal saving – US politicians have turned to yet another quick fix.
And, on the basis of far-fetched “originalist” interpretations of the US Constitution, they would deny the federal government the power to engage in almost any form of economic regulation or support of the general welfare, including public health.
This is not the case in the US, because it has an integrated financial system, and support for banks (deposit insurance or outright bailouts) is administered at the federal level.
That would have been impossible in the US, given that the supervisors are federal.
A further difference between the eurozone and the US is that the Federal Reserve normally lends only against public debt, and accepts only federal debt (T-bills) as collateral.
The ECB, on the other hand, accepts private assets and, in the absence of federal debt, national debt as collateral.
Also expect China to be far less interested in buying Treasury debt – a potentially serious problem, given the expanded federal budget deficits that are likely under Trumponomics.
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