Len, do you really believe that the government bond market will regain confidence when the politicians agree to resume borrowing without closing the long-term gap by even 10%?
And unless we do that, we will continue to face a very substantial long-term fiscal gap.
He says he would tax the wealthy to close Social Security's long-term funding gap.
Over 75% of projected the long-term budget gap is caused by escalating interest costs on debt.
In addition to that set of challenges, we also face a long-term fiscal gap, which is driven primarily by health care costs.
The fact that the deficit commission is focused on federal deficits and not the long-term fiscal gap is indicative of how much damage the economic labeling problem is causing.
So much so, that the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Affordable Care Act reduced the long-term fiscal gap by 2% of the gross domestic product over the next 75 years.
Long-term interest rates will come down to narrow the historically wide gap between short-term and long-term rates, says Dessauer, who believes mortgage rates will dip below 5%, keeping the housing boom going.
However, there will still be a long-run 0.8 percentage-point gap, according to Stephen Nickell, a member of the Bank of England's monetary-policy committee.
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In any case, so long as growth is below long-term trend, the gap between actual and potential output will continue to grow, easing inflationary pressure.
The funded pillar could also go a long way towards filling the gap in the Russian market for long-term financing, which is necessary for infrastructure development.
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The prime minister defended benefits for the elderly and disabled but said the system of working-age benefits had gone "truly awry" and created a "welfare gap between those living long-term in the welfare system and those outside it".
More than closing the financial gap on his long-time rival Woods, a U.S. Open victory would have the short-term impact of renewing the relevance of the Mickelson brand.
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After Carlos Rivera flied out, De Aza ran down Andy Gonzalez's long fly to the gap in left-center and made a reaching snag at the warning track with his back to the infield.
Interestingly, there is also a Plan C spelled out, if low growth is combined with high inflation - because we've underestimated the long-term damage done by the crisis (ie over-estimated the output gap) - hike interest rates and increase austerity.
These called for an immediate ceasefire, followed by a cooling-off period and a series of confidence-building measures to bridge the gap between the current violence and a resumption of long-term negotiations.
Higher long-term interest rates would lower liabilities, because they would reduce the gap between pay-out rates and investment returns.
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The most notable area of concern is the central Himalayan Gap, a 600km-long central arc of the Himalayas.
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One way to identify an overextended market is to look at the gap between prices and a long-term moving average.
The gap between Spanish and German long-term borrowing rates also reached a record high, as did the cost of insuring against a Spanish sovereign default.
The Group of Thirty argue that it needs to be made easier to bridge the gap between global savings and long-term investment - otherwise countries will struggle to find the necessary funding for expanding infrastructure, factories and education.
Another sign of trouble is the current large gap between short-term and long-term interest rates.
The gender wage gap puts women at a career-long disadvantage.
Since then the gap in the interest rates paid by the long-term credit banks has widened.
It describes the decadal projections as part of an experimental effort launched in 2004 to fill the gap between daily weather forecasts and century-long estimates for climate change.
Federer's next return looks long - he'll challenge, but it's so long - second match point, serve in, weak return, gap on the Fed backhand, big gap on the Fed backhand... it's there!
Joynt got former Bradford centre Paul Newlove into a run in a dangerous position and took a return pass to cross at the corner, with Long kicking a superb conversion to narrow the gap to 16-10.
It is interesting that the British 50-year bond, though successful, attracted bids equal to only 1.6 times what was on offer, compared with demand equal to three times the total when France launched its ultra-long bond earlier (though different circumstances explain some of that gap).
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