Markets are relieved that the latest round of interest-rate raising wasn't worse.
In other words - and this is how most economists would view it - raising the inflation rate is a cheeky way of achieving the same outcome as an interest rate cut.
But his response, from raising the top income-tax rate to increasing college-tuition subsidies, was just a laundry list of small initiatives.
Would the Fed use a quick depression as a cure to devalue the over-priced durable goods by raising the interest rate as a catalyst to thwart off the irrational exuberance since the economy is doomed to the Self-induced Paralysis?
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Politicians in Annapolis created a millionaire tax bracket, raising the top marginal income-tax rate to 6.25%.
Spain is reversing its fiscal stimulus by raising its main value-added tax rate next year.
And that is when the bank is likely to start restoring more normal monetary settings, by raising the base rate from its all-time low of 0.5%.
Ms Salgado is already raising value-added tax, with the top rate going from 16% to 18% in July.
His crucial revenue-raising decision was to increase the main rate of VAT, a consumption tax, from 17.5% to 20% in January 2011.
As 2012 drew to a close, Congress passed a law raising the top gift- and estate-tax rate to 40% from a maximum of 35%.
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It is not hard to conjure up a scenario where agreements on, say, tax harmonisation or exchange-rate policy within the euro group start raising questions about the full access of non-euro members to the single market.
This is why Mr Hollande will start by cutting the retirement age for some workers to 60, putting the top marginal income-tax rate up to 75%, raising taxes on wealth, inheritance and dividends, increasing the minimum wage and making it much harder for employers to fire workers.
The platform calls for reducing the top corporate tax-rate to 25% from 30% and raising the minimum wage slightly.
Yields on ten-year Treasuries were higher in the spring of 2004, before he started raising short-term rates, than they are now, nine rate hikes later.
Therefore, I am not taking forward the LPC's recommendation to freeze the apprenticeship rate due to non-compliance, but instead am raising it in line with the youth rates.
Maersk does expect some improvement in rates in the fourth quarter, but management has little incentive to sound positive just yet--raising the company's outlook won't necessarily help with rate negotiations.
Whether the long-term deficit is closed ultimately by raising taxes or cutting benefits, that will mean the effective rate of return from the program will be lower, ultimately falling into the negative range for everyone.
Once the top rate of capital-gains tax is cut to 20%, this discrepancy widens, raising the incentive for people, particularly business owners and the self-employed, to disguise their income as capital gains.
Mr King's cautious confidence about the prospects for inflation and the narrowness of the rate-setters' decision both suggest that the bank will now be less aggressive in raising rates than the markets had feared.
But given that -- you're asking now the GOP to go further than they've gone before by raising the top rate on top earners.
That is one of the ways in which increasing a tax rate can reduce the total tax yield, thereby defeating the whole supposed object of the tax-raising exercise.
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