Sentence examples for rate debate from inspiring English sources

On the whole, he said, "there's been a little too much discussion on the marginal tax rate debate and maybe not enough on looking at other ways to approach the issue".

But CommSec chief economist Craig James says a batch of data released on Monday in Australia, including house price and inflation figures, had shifted the interest rate debate in favour of the RBA remaining on hold at 2.5%.

This time, the rate debate has been muted at best -- in part because Mr. McGreevey has chosen to make his Republican opponent, Bret D. Schundler, the main issue, and in part because the Sept. 11 attacks have voters worrying about larger questions of safety and survival.

The student loan interest rate debate has gone viral, and a result, it's taken over Congress.

Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and former deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury, said he doesn't believe there is an "absolute best answer" to the interest rate debate.

It remains clear that after the tax rate debate was settled, the White House is happy to bargain cuts in revenue-neutral fashion, obtaining additional revenues through the same tax reform idea that Romney campaigned on.

In his attempt to avoid a repeat of his failure to win the telephone-rate debate, Mr. Powell says he has reached out to industry and other groups about their concerns.

Cabinet ministers stirred up further trouble by wading into the interest-rate debate, against the wishes of Mr Yilmaz.At least no one thinks Turkey is anywhere close to its precarious position in 2001, when the economy shrank by around 7% and the country flirted with debt default.

"This comes at a time when the confidence in the efficacy of monetary policy appears to be on the wane in any event … Shifting the focus of the rates debate would undoubtedly be helpful for the revenue outlook at European banks," the Barclays analysts said.

Friedman's first and most famous foray into the exchange-rate debate, an essay entitled "The Case for Flexible Exchange Rates" (1953), was originally written as a memorandum in 1950, when he served as a consultant to the U.S. agency administering the Marshall Plan.

In the current atmosphere of voter frustration and declining response rates, debate will center on modes of data collection.