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Investment in highly relevant research was low: in the United States, it was only an estimated 1% of the $1.1 billion federal investment in nanotechnology research and development.
These include slow but persistent private and public-sector deleveraging; rising oil prices; weak job creation; another downturn in the housing market; severe fiscal problems at the state and local level; and an unsustainable deficit and debt burden at the federal level.
Beyond the judiciary, a slew of institutions, including the federal police and the finance ministry, have taken part and worked in synch.
The US federal budget deficit for 2001-2 was $159 billion, quite respectable (in percentage terms) by European standards.
So, in Bush's eyes, tax cuts reduce the federal deficit.
Today, China has the most federal governance structure of any large nation except the US.
In the United States, there are no federal laws about how egg producers house their hens.
That suggests that the problem may not be with US citizens’ attitudes, but rather that, at the federal level, the US political system allows industries with large campaign chests too much power to thwart the wishes of popular majorities.
Broadly, they propose a “neutral” Ukraine on the model of Finland and a federal state on the model of Switzerland.
The Fed had been saying for several months that it would raise the federal funds rate when the labor market approached full employment and when FOMC members could anticipate that annual inflation would reach 2%.
In the US, when oil prices go up, incomes in Texas and Montana rise, which means that these states then contribute more tax revenue to the federal budget, thereby helping out the rest of the country.
The US will face a trifecta of new fiscal hurdles – lack of legal authority to pay debt, no operating budget for the federal government, and the dreaded prospect of sequestration – before the end of March.
That federal law, enacted in June 2016, also established an Oversight Board with fiscal decision-making authority for the US commonwealth.
The restructuring process started on May 3, when the Board filed a petition in federal court.
Of 3,007 counties in the US, a worker earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour can afford a one-bedroom rental in only 12.
Three out of four households that qualify for federal housing assistance are not receiving it, owing to conflicting eligibility requirements, duplicative applications, and complex multi-agency approval processes.
Most recently, the United Kingdom reduced its rate to 20%, half of the combined US federal and average state rates.
Moreover, as a second-term, lame-duck President, presiding over a recession, and in a complicated Federal system with powerful state Governors, President Cardoso is unlikely to maintain much political power and support for his austerity policies.
These gun-toting extremists, whose idea of patriotism is to regard the federal government as the enemy, are different from 1930s Brownshirts only in name.
Indeed, all that was required to lose the bet was an attempt to confirm that the emissions results obtained when the vehicles were undergoing federal emissions tests were similar to those resulting from normal driving.
Finally, policy paralysis around the US federal budget may be playing the biggest role of all in America’s incipient governance crisis.
In 2012, almost half of all childcare workers’ families received some kind of federal public support, from food stamps to children’s health insurance.
Trump’s proposed federal budget calls for an increase in US military spending in Europe, while NATO’s European members have agreed to increase their military spending toward the 2%-of-GDP goal (though not as rapidly as Trump would like).
A federal judge ruled the firing of Cox illegal.
Since the end of 2015, the benchmark federal funds rate has been raised to 1.5%.
What kind of partner that president finds in Europe will depend substantially on the outcome of two elections in 2017: France’s presidential election in early May and Germany’s federal election by the end of October.
Trump may try to spin these failures, especially as the capital inflows that are helping to push up the dollar’s value lower the federal government’s financing costs, thereby creating more room for Trump to pursue his fiscal policy goals.
From quantitative easing to record-high federal budget deficits to unprecedented bailouts, they have done everything in their power to mask the pain of balance-sheet repair and structural adjustment.
With total estimated federal government spending for 2017 of around $4 trillion, that amounts to about $1 for every $2,000 that the government is likely to spend.
In terms of doing good, these global health programs may well offer the best value of any federal government program.
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