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The island uses the US dollar, and the US Congress imposed on Puerto Rico the federal minimum wage, even though its per capita income is – as Anne Krueger has pointed out – about half that of the poorest US state.
The convention should also look at the broader case for building a more federal UK, for codifying a new division of powers between London and the regions, and for replacing the unelected House of Lords with an elected Senate of the Nations and Regions.
Meanwhile, state and local-government budgets are improving, and the federal budget is on track to subtract only about 0.5% from GDP in 2014, compared to 1.75% in 2013.
In a Congressional election year, another destabilizing showdown over the federal debt limit is unlikely.
Indeed, the Fed has reiterated its intention to hold the federal funds rate near zero well past the time that the unemployment rate falls below 6.5%, while gradually trimming its purchases of long-term assets – so-called quantitative easing – by $10 billion a month.
Future federal governments will have to be based on fragile coalitions, and the German presence in the European Parliament will be fragmented among different parties, rendering it less effective.
State governments in the US exercise little sovereignty in large part because they have less need of it: their residents receive transfers from the center and send their representatives to Washington, DC, to help make federal policy.
Even if the federal government had intended to get a return on its investment by selling the water from Lake Mead, the dam’s construction costs have long since been amortized.
The US federal government needs to intervene in the water industry.
The water sector should follow the example of the electric-power industry, where changes to federal regulations in the second half of the twentieth century allowed independent power producers to use existing transmission lines.
For them, a federal funds rate (the interest rate that banks charge each other for overnight loans of their reserves held at the Fed) of 5% seems as fantastic as a unicorn.
Even in the unlikely event that the Fed raised the federal funds rate by 25 basis points at every meeting from mid-2015, the rate would stand at only 5% at the end of 2017.
Indeed, Putin has taken advantage of his legitimacy, popularity, and working majority in the State Duma (federal parliament) to force through radical tax reform and a continued tight fiscal policy in the 2001 budget.
Think, for example of Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, or the Aum Shinrykio cult that released poison gas in the Tokyo subway system the same year.
Some of the state assemblies in India’s federal system have already witnessed scenes of furniture upended, microphones ripped out, and slippers flung by unruly legislators, not to mention fistfights and garments torn in scuffles.
The Delhi police and the federal investigative agencies – in particular, the Central Bureau of Investigation – are not safe from politicization, either.
Similarly, in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a backlash against a federal carbon tax imposed on the four (of ten) Canadian provinces that rejected his original emissions-reduction policies – and it might cost him his job next year.
Congress and the US Supreme Court are the only federal agencies whose employees may, without restrictions, trade stocks based on non-public information.
In the US, Alexander Hamilton famously negotiated the federal assumption of states’ debt in 1790, but many states behaved badly in the early nineteenth century, with multiple bankruptcies, until they adopted laws or amendments to their constitutions requiring balanced budgets.
Hamilton made federal customs houses the key element of his proposal.
The legislative one-two punch of tax reform and spending increases puts the US federal debt on an upward path.
Also, instead of paying their taxes, they offer local and federal governments barter deals.
Meanwhile, the federal government’s budget deficit continues to increase – creating pressures for destructive future austerity.
As part of America’s system of checks and balances, Congress gets to do more than just approve the annual federal budget.
The Shape of Charges to Come?WASHINGTON, DC – When the news broke last week about the specific documents sought by Robert Mueller, the special counsel heading the federal investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 election and whether Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with the Kremlin, a chill fell over Trump’s already jittery White House.
Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump (said to be the president’s favorite child), have offices in the White House, and Kushner is involved in an absurdly broad array of issues, from resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict to reorganizing the federal government.
The presence of federal troops did not stop the warring factions from disrupting oil production, forcing Chevron/Texaco and Shell--which account for more than half of Nigeria's daily oil production--to suspend operations.
The core protective legal institution for outside finance, the federal securities laws, didn’t fall into place until the 1930’s – decades after US financial markets had grown to finance America’s economic rise.
This is a good time to remember that the United States is a federal system, not a unitary state with an all-powerful central government (think France).
Its system is enshrined in the Tenth Amendment of the US Constitution, which stipulates that all powers not expressly assigned to the federal government are “reserved to the states.”
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