Because ideas can flow so freely, efforts to limit distribution raise challenging enforcement obstacles.
For example, excessive debt and persistent unemployment may limit spending, raise interest rates and crimp growth.
Additionally, Congress should provide that when it next comes time to raise the debt limit, a super-majority vote of both Houses of Congress will be required to raise the debt ceiling by a percentage greater than the rate the economy is growing.
McMillan deconstructs industry arguments that fiduciary standards would limit customer choice and raise costs.
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It will also raise the limit for investors seeking to put yuan funds, raised overseas, in China's markets.
The U.S. could suffer a downgrade on its debt, raising borrowing costs when Congress does eventually raise the limit.
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If lawmakers do not agree to raise the limit, the government will not be able to pay its bills.
Since Congress can vote to raise the limit, its existence has been more of a political nuisance than an actual barrier.
The government of West Bengal has said it will raise the limit.
The Shays-Meehan bill would ban soft money -- unregulated, unlimited funds to political parties -- and it would raise the limit on hard money contributions to individual candidates.
Increasingly, state and local governments want to toll existing lanes, both to limit congestion and to raise funds that could be applied to all aspects of transport budgets.
As US federal debt approaches its statutory ceiling, confidence on Capitol Hill is growing that a deal to raise the limit will soon be struck, avoiding the theoretical possibility of default.
The Shays-Meehan bill, like the McCain-Feingold legislation, would ban soft money -- unregulated, unlimited funds to political parties -- and would raise the limit on hard money contributions to individual candidates.
The companies also welcomed the plan to raise the limit on foreign investment in telecommunications to 100% and said they will continue investing, competing and finding ways to lower prices to consumers.
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Congress must agree to raise the limit on how much debt the U.S. can have by the end of February otherwise the country risks default and could be slapped with damaging credit downgrades.
We are much more ready to abandon or sell a technology in clean tech today if it fails to be highly differentiated because one has to anticipate a continuing negative clean tech funding environment that will limit the ability to raise equity financing for these companies in the future.
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Like Barack Obama in the US, Mr Key's essential economic-policy challenge is that he will be expected to provide substantial economic stimulus as soon as he takes office, yet the weakness of the domestic economy will reduce tax revenues and limit his scope to raise spending without also increasing the fiscal burden.
Senator Simpson, from the deficit commission, said something colorful about the fight to raise the debt limit.
Since 1960, Congress acted 78 times to raise the debt limit, with most of those times occurring under Republican presidencies.
But Obama today rejected suggestions that he could invoke the 14th Amendment to raise the debt limit on his own.
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The Majority Leader of the House has voted to raise the debt limit five times in his career in the House.
President Obama has said a vote in Congress on whether to raise the debt limit should be separate from the budget debate.
As Geithner noted in an earlier letter, the U.S. government has never failed to raise the debt limit in a timely fashion.
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Their support will be needed in the coming months both to pass a budget and to raise the legal limit on America's debt.
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The latest CBS News poll showed that only 24 percent of Americans said you should raise the debt limit to avoid an economic catastrophe.
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Larry Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, warned on TV that failing to raise the debt limit would be worse than the Lehman bankruptcy in 2008.
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They included plans to speed up the asylum process, restrict the sale of replica guns and raise the age limit for buying knives to 18.
They say the scheme, which would raise the speed limit from 50mph to 70mph, would increase traffic and noise and "tear the heart out of the community".
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One of the stranger ideas floating around is that the Administration should deal with the refusal to raise the debt limit by minting a trillion dollar platinum coin.
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