Sentence examples for twin deficits from inspiring English sources

Their worries over America's twin deficits, on the current account and the federal budget, loom large.

Intervention has helped finance America's twin deficits and hold down its long-term bond yields.

At issue was the comment's significance for a looming macroeconomic transition in Russia known as the "twin deficits".

"The twin deficits are a concern in this respect," Ernst Welteke, president of Germany's central bank, said in a speech earlier this week.

Thus, emerging economies with large twin deficits and other macroeconomic fragilities may experience further downward pressure on their financial markets and growth rates.

This situation is fundamentally different from that faced by those nations with twin deficits: fiscal deficit cum external current account deficit.

Labour has a twin deficit problem.

Labour has eight months to deal with its twin deficit problem, starting this week.

In twin deficit countries, the private sector's financial surplus is not big enough to cover the government deficit fully, necessitating foreign borrowing by the sovereign with all sorts of potential ramifications.

But what Spain does have is the highest twin deficit, or combined budget and current account deficits, of any country in the world except Iceland, a reflection of how dependent it is on increasingly fickle foreign investors for financing.

That "something else" might well be the poor underlying state of the UK economy, which has a twin deficit (budget and current account) problem, high and rising levels of debt, low levels of saving, sluggish productivity growth, and poor infrastructure.