These three billion dollar spending days currently rank as three of the four heaviest online spending days in history.
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With less than a week until Election Day, there is a genuine risk that both campaigns will miss their billion-dollar spending targets.
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Secondly, Rep. Boehner should enforce his rule of one dollar in spending cuts for every dollar increase in the debt limit.
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The Recovery Act that I just talked about -- we put every dollar of spending in the Recovery Act on a Web site.
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With polls showing their public support eroding, the Republicans jettisoned, for now at least, an earlier insistence that they would allow no additional borrowing unless Obama and the Democrats agreed to dollar-for-dollar federal spending cuts in exchange.
That is, it assumes that when the SSA lends a dollar to the Treasury, the result is one less dollar of private-sector borrowing rather than one more dollar of government spending or one more dollar of tax cuts.
That afternoon, May 15th, Boehner had delivered a speech in which he insisted that Republicans would not raise the debt ceiling next year unless a dollar in government spending was cut for every dollar of new borrowing.
Multipliers embody the Keynesian belief that each dollar of additional government spending will produce more than a dollar of additional GDP.
Their aim is to force lawmakers to be prudent by putting dollar limits on spending.
For each dollar of highway spending, the costs of congestion were only reduced by a eleven cents.
However, the multiplier effect (the effect that a dollar of government spending has on economic growth) is 0%.
It would mean taxes would go down, dollar for dollar, with spending cuts, while leaving borrowing and inflation unchanged.
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In our model, every dollar of government spending has to come from somewhere, which means it is either taxed or borrowed from the private economy.
So it makes sense to keep investing elsewhere, preserving capital while the dollar slides and getting ready to rebuild the U.S. once a President calls for a stronger dollar and less spending.
Just as a cut in interest rates or a weaker dollar can boost spending by households and firms, so can rising share prices, through their impact on wealth and the cost of capital.
So I would urge you to think about leverage, where a dollar of fiscal spending -- and this is spending money, primarily, or targeted tax relief -- can leverage a lot of private money.
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It achieves exactly -- randomly, the Republicans decided that for the first time in history, we had to link -- we had to do dollar-for-dollar reductions in spending to match the increase in the debt ceiling.
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For every dollar of stimulus or government spending paid for by the half of the population that pays taxes, you take away a dollar that might have been invested in creating higher-paying jobs.
In contrast, in absolute dollar terms, defense spending actually declined slightly between those two years.
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But, unlike a corporation, which garners the resources to retire that debt by satisfying customers, every dollar the government is spending now will be extracted from tax-paying businesses and workers when the loans come due.
Content to rest solely on its tax-cutting laurels, the GOP became an increasingly "inside Washington" party that seemingly only existed to maintain its power, all the while raising taxes on the electorate through nosebleed spending and dollar debasement.
He says the cheap dollar and all that foreign spending should help retailers this year, but not everywhere.
"I would have no objection to them spending their own dollar, " he says.
What really matters to Western firms is consumer spending in plain dollar terms.
This reduction is the largest single year dollar decrease in Federal contract spending on record, and establishes a three-year downward trend from 2009-2012.
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China is the world's fastest-growing market (see chart 5), and by around 2010 total spending in absolute dollar terms there will probably be increasing faster than in America.
Some residents are scoffing at the notion of spending millions of dollar to promote a state with little hope of emerging from the shadows of neighboring New York or Massachusetts.
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The entrepreneur has an idea of what they want, but no ability to do it themselves, so they go somewhere offshore and build a team and build out their product without spending a single dollar.
The stock of CONMED took a hard beating earlier this month, after the company took a significant cut to fourth-quarter and 2009 sales and earnings guidance, due to a stronger dollar and reductions in hospital spending.
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