• "The Conservatives have made a series of uncosted tax promises - tax bribes, " said Mr Clegg, referring to Tory promises to recognise marriage in the tax system, limit the National Insurance rise, freeze council tax and raise the inheritance tax threshold.

    BBC: Nick Clegg launches Scottish Lib Dem election campaign

  • You should endeavor to rise above the partisan fray and raise the level of discourse to one that is both more civil and more conciliatory.... Capitalism is not the source of our problems, as an economy or as a society, and capitalists are not the scourge that they are too often made out to be.

    NEWYORKER: Super-Rich Irony

  • As car sales rise, the analysts will have to raise their subscriber estimates and the shares will rise.

    FORBES

  • In opposition, the Conservatives dismissed the 13-month measure as "an expensive failure", and in his first Budget, Chancellor George Osborne announced that VAT would rise to 20% to help raise money for the Treasury and tackle the UK deficit.

    BBC: Ed Balls urges emergency tax cut to boost economy

  • Instead they argue that there should be a substantial pay rise for all teachers which will raise morale and help to tackle the difficulties in recruiting new teachers.

    BBC: Performance pay 'doomed to fail'

  • Run up spending and debt, raise taxes in the naming of balancing the budget, but then watch as deficits rise and your credit-rating falls anyway.

    FORBES: Illinois Downgrade Provides More Evidence that Higher Taxes Make Fiscal Problems Worse, not Better

  • The team has calculated that Alaskan glaciers are responsible for at least 9% of the global sea-level rise during the past century, and Alaska's glaciers raise the level of Earth's oceans by more than one-tenth of a millimetre each year.

    BBC: Alaskan glaciers melting faster

  • If inflation in America continues to rise, the Fed will have to raise rates abruptly, and by more than if it acts now.

    ECONOMIST: As Japan goes?

  • Managers are loath to cut dividends when earnings fall and rarely raise them to the full extent that earnings rise.

    FORBES: The great stock illusion

  • What is needed is a combination of steps: some immediate limitation on COLAS, some intermediate move to prevent inflation from pushing up benefits faster than the rise in wages and payroll taxes, some long-range measures to raise the retirement age and keep the formula for calculating benefits from straining the resources of society.

    CNN: A Debt-Threatened Dream

  • After the election, the pressure on the government to tighten fiscal policy, and on the central bank to raise interest rates, will rise.

    ECONOMIST: The Turkish economy

  • The FDIC, like other bank regulators, has been encouraging banks to raise capital levels to buffer against the expected rise in losses and write-downs.

    FORBES: Bad News Banks

  • With equity as cheap to raise as it is, and interest rates threatening to rise, it might make more sense to be selling shares rather than buying them.

    ECONOMIST: America��s financial markets may be about to shrink

  • Dr. GECZY: That almost surely gave rise to the ability to raise more money because investors went through that experience and were looking for hedges.

    NPR: Ponzi Schemes Have Colorful History

  • It was interesting yesterday, that in the six states where voters had a chance to raise the minimum wage and link it to inflation so it'll rise automatically every year, they overwhelmingly approved it.

    NPR: Financial Markets Watch Election Results with Interest

  • The rise is scheduled to last only three years, and is meant, say officials, more to raise revenue than restrict imports.

    ECONOMIST: The free-trade winds die away

  • The administration lacked the votes to raise taxes now on wealthier Americans, and the strength of Republican opponents will rise in January when a new Congress convenes.

    WSJ: Obama Lashes Out at Critics in His Base

  • And that is despite the fact that its firms tend to have few overseas profits, are heavily exposed to an economic slowdown, and will find it hard to raise the growth capital they need if interest rates rise sharply.

    ECONOMIST: America��s stockmarket

  • Areas under dispute have included pay and pensions, with the CWU saying a pay rise came with unacceptable strings attached, and the Royal Mail wanting to scrap its final salary pension scheme and raise the retirement age.

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • Investors seem willing to bet that emerging market currencies will remain strong, at least until there is some indication that the US and Europe will raise interest rates significantly, thus attracting US and European investors back into their own currencies as yields rise on the higher rates.

    FORBES: For International Investors, Non-Dollar Bonds More Popular...Again

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