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Halting arms
sales
to Saudi Arabia is only a first step.
Because local governments receive 50% of total national fiscal revenue, but account for 85% of total fiscal expenditure, they try to supplement their budgets through land
sales.
And the recent “Windrush” scandal over the government’s poor treatment of Caribbean-born legal residents has reprised the illiberal legacy of May’s previous tenure at the Home Office.But equally insidious has been the government’s embrace of “Britain First” mercantilism, under which arms
sales
to Saudi Arabia are not a matter for caution, but rather an opportunity for profit.
But equally insidious has been the government’s embrace of “Britain First” mercantilism, under which arms
sales
to Saudi Arabia are not a matter for caution, but rather an opportunity for profit.
Recent data on employment, retail sales, industrial production, and housing in the United States remain very weak;Europe’s first quarter GDP growth data is dismal;Japan’s economy is still comatose; and even China – which is recovering – has very weak exports.
But a significant part of the JSA’s revenue, if not a majority of it, still comes from ticket sales, despite the big fees that NHK, Japan’s public television, pays for broadcast rights.
This was confirmed by a fall in retail
sales
in April.
The total tax burden on families also includes
sales
taxes, which are steeply regressive, and property taxes, which are progressive.
Total personal taxes are mildly progressive, increasing steadily as a share of income from 14% at the 10th percentile to 28% at the 90th percentile, but then falling off sharply to 22% at the top, owing to the favorable treatment of capital gains and investment income, the wage cap on social security taxes, and the sharp regressivity of
sales
taxes.
Some people cite the spat over arms
sales
to Taiwan and the Dalai Lama’s visit to Washington as a fourth dampener on all the G-2 talk.
Similarly, 10% annualized gains in inflation-adjusted retail
sales
through mid-2017 – about 45% faster than the 6.9% pace of overall GDP growth – reflect impressive growth in household incomes and the increasingly powerful (and possibly under-reported) impetus of e-commerce.
While the Sustainable Development Goals emphasize peace (SDG 16), America’s military-industrial complex pursues open-ended wars (Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, to name some of America’s current engagements) and large-scale arms
sales.
When a potential or actual loss of confidence in the currency threatens to bring about large capital outflows, intervention usually takes the form of
sales
of foreign-exchange reserves to mitigate the magnitude or speed of depreciation.
Personal computer
sales
were miniscule.
Likewise, more than a quarter of all medicinal drugs, representing billions of dollars in
sales
and reduced healthcare costs, possess active ingredients derived from wild species.
SINGAPORE – Luxury-brand companies’ stock prices plunged in July, after their financial results disappointed investors, owing largely to slower
sales
in emerging markets, especially in China.
But a slowdown in China’s economic growth cannot really be blamed for slower
sales
of luxury goods or empty malls.
Harvard’s president at the time, Derek Bok, said that the university’s decision “was motivated by a desire not to be associated as a shareholder with companies engaged in significant
sales
of products that create a substantial and unjustified risk of harm to other human beings.”
Consumption plummeted, taking down retail
sales
with it, and, after a short lag, employment and investment as well.
(Technically, the pace of inventory investment should be included, but this is a cyclical buffer between production and
sales
rather than a source of final demand.)
Though policies like limits on mortgages for first-time buyers and minimum residency requirements for purchasing property in a first-tier city like Beijing or Shanghai helped to ease demand, supply-side tactics, such as limiting credit to real-estate developers and imposing new taxes on property sales, have proved to be counter-productive.
In the first four months of 2014, housing
sales
dropped by nearly 7% year on year, with construction of new floor area falling by more than 22%.
Effective firms play worldwide in their sourcing, production and
sales.
Critics assert that Zhu’s 1994 tax reform led to the current real-estate bubble, because it drove local governments to use land
sales
to boost their incomes.
Highly leveraged local governments could not tolerate higher interest rates or an appreciating currency, and they were adamant about continuing land
sales
and opposing property taxes.
Similarly, generics account for 90% of Chinese pharmaceutical
sales.
Though real annual GDP growth seems to have stabilized at around 7%, almost all key economic indicators – such as nominal GDP, fixed-asset investment, floor space under construction, nominal retail sales, auto sales, electricity output, railway cargo, and iron ore imports – are well below their four-year growth average.
The country is now riveted on the fate of ordinary citizens like
sales
assistant Lina Joy and former religious teacher Kamariah Ali, who are trying to change their religious affiliation through the legal system.
A second problem with executives being free to time the
sales
of their stock options and shares is that such freedom provides them with an incentive to use their influence over company disclosures to rig the stock price from declining before they execute their trades.
For starters, executives’ payoff from stock
sales
should not depend on a single stock price.
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