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| | Deficit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Fiscal conservatives denounce deficit spending and advocate balanced budgets. | | | The observed total budget deficit is equal to the sum of the structural deficit with the cyclical deficit or surplus. | | | A structural deficit is the deficit that remains across the business cycle, because general tax levels are too low for the general level of government spending. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deficit
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| | Deficit spending - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Deficit spending is the amount by which a government, private company, or individual's spending exceeds income over a particular period of time, also called simply "deficit," or "budget deficit," the opposite of budget surplus. | | | When the expenditures of a government (its purchases of goods and services, plus its transfers (grants) to individuals and corporations) are greater than its tax revenues, it creates a deficit in the government budget. | | | A government deficit leads to increased government debt (often confusingly called the "national debt" or the "public debt"). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deficit_spending
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| | Why Deficits Matter- Global Policy Forum - Social and Economic Policy |
| | Deficits matter, as well, because the increased borrowing means the government has to spend even more on interest costs, which already account for a sizable chunk of government spending. | | | Deficits such as these matter because the increased government borrowing creates a drag on the economy; it reduces the amount of capital available for private investment and consequently the increased national income that would result from greater investment. | | | By 2008 interest costs are projected to be $260 billion, more than half the total budget ($461 billion) for non-defense discretionary spending. |
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http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/crisis/2003/0720why.htm
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| | U.S. International Transactions News Release |
| | The goods deficit was revised to $197.3 billion from $197.9; the services surplus was revised to $15.9 billion from $15.1 billion; the income surplus was revised to $4.9 billion from $0.5 billion; and unilateral current transfers were revised to net outflows of $8.9 billion from net outflows of $13.5 billion. | | | Other contributors to the increase in the deficit were a decrease in the surplus on income to $1.6 billion from $30.4 billion and a small increase in net outflows (payments) for unilateral current transfers to $82.9 billion from $80.9 billion. | | | Income The balance on income shifted to a deficit of $2.4 billion in the fourth quarter from a surplus of $4.9 billion in the third. |
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http://www.bea.gov/bea/newsrel/transnewsrelease.htm
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| | FRBSF: Economic Letter - The Budget Deficit (1/30/98) |
| | The remaining 2.4 percentage points of reduction in the deficit as a share of GDP are a reduction in the cyclically adjusted deficit. | | | The end of the era of deficits means that the total drag on the economy inflicted by cumulative budget deficits is no longer increasing. | | | Even though relatively little was done to affect the future course of the deficit in 1997--the President-congressional deficit-reduction agreement of 1997 was small compared to previous deficit-reduction agreements--the cumulative total reduction in the deficit so far this decade is a substantial economic policy victory. |
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http://www.frbsf.org/econrsrch/wklyltr/wklyltr98/el98-03.html
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| | Federal Budget & Deficit |
| | Increasing deficits are caused either by a drop in revenues or an increase in expenditures. | | | Since the spending increase is significantly larger than the revenue increase the deficit increases. | | | It is easy to see that the greatest increases in both the budget and the deficit were WWI and WWII, and the only era that the deficit actually decreased noticeably was between WWI and the Great Depression. |
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| | The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2005 to 2014 |
| | The Deficit Control Act states that such spending should be projected by adjusting the current year's discretionary budget authority to reflect inflation--using specified indexes--and other factors (such as the cost of annualizing adjustments to federal pay). | | | The budget deficit more than doubled in 2003--growing to $375 billion from $158 billion in 2002. | | | Revisions to that baseline have reduced the projected deficit for 2004 by $3 billion but increased the 10-year deficit by $986 billion. |
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http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=4985&sequence=2
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| | US Deficit Hits a New Record |
| | The current account deficit for 2004 was a record $668.1 billion, up 28.6 percent from the previous record of $519.7 billion in 2003. | | | The latest figure means that the US payments deficit is running at an annual rate of $780 billion, requiring $2 billion a day from the rest of the world—mainly provided by Japan, China and other Asian nations—to finance it. | | | The US balance of payments deficit hit an all-time high for the first quarter of the year, rising to $195.1 billion, up 3.6 percent from the previous record of $188.4 billion for the final three months of 2004 and well above market predictions of $190 billion. |
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http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/3521/US_Deficit_Hits_a_New_Record
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| | USATODAY.com - Federal deficit expected to approach $500 billion next year |
| | The CBO put the deficit in 2005 at $341 billion, and predicted that the budget will finally return to a surplus in 2012 and 2013. | | | The 2004-2013 deficit estimate of $1.397 trillion reverses previous predictions that the federal government, battered by economic recession and rising defense and security costs, would still take in more than it spends over the coming decade. | | | In its last budget estimates in March, the CBO predicted that the deficit would be $246 billion this year, but would move gradually back toward the black and result in an accumulated surplus of $891 billion in the 2004-2013 period. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-08-25-deficit_x.htm
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| | Federal Deficit, by Laurence J. Kotlikoff: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | Since everyone is sure the deficit should be zero, but no one is sure how to measure it, the deficit's definition has real implications for economic and budget policy. | | | The current measure of the deficit, or any measure, is based on arbitrary choices of how to label government receipts and payments. | | | Other economists, who worry about deficits, claim that the correlation between the deficit and other economic variables is so low because the deficit has been defined incorrectly. |
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http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/FederalDeficit.html
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| | FTD - Congressional Highlights |
| | The goods deficit with Canada increased from $8.0 billion in December to $8.9 billion in January. | | | The goods deficit with the European Union decreased from $10.1 billion in December to $9.7 billion in January. | | | For goods, the deficit was $73.4 billion in January, up from $70.1 billion in December. |
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http://www.census.gov/indicator/www/ustrade.html
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| | How To Talk About the Deficit - A lesson in the art of avoidance from the Bush economic conference. ByTimothy Noah |
| | The deficit is currently estimated at $422 billion for 2004. | | | Even Tim Penney, a Democratic former member of Congress who is famously a deficit hawk, managed to deliver a jeremiad about out-of-control entitlement spending without once proposing a specific way to cut that spending. | | | Bush's hypocrisy about government spending is so naked that a whole new ideology, "big government conservatism," had to be invented in order to explain it away. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2111173
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| | Deficit Coverage "What's Missing?" - Center for American Progress |
| | A deficit means that the government is spending more than it takes in through taxes. | | | The $400 billion deficit of 2009 will lower GDP that year by $28 billion – and GDP will stay $28 billion lower than otherwise in all subsequent years: that lost economic growth will not be made up. | | | The honest forecast is for a deficit of $400 billion in 2009, rising to $600 billion in 2014, and then rising still further thereafter. |
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http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=27156
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| | BBC NEWS Business US budget deficit to hit $445bn |
| | The Office of Management and Budget said the rising deficit was due to an extraordinary succession of negative economic pressures including the 2000 economic downturn, the subsequent recession, the 9/11 attacks, the war on terror, increased spending on homeland security and a series of corporate scandals. | | | A deficit of $445bn would be the equivalent of 3.8% of total economic output. | | | The White House said it expected the deficit to narrow to $331bn(£181bn) in 2005, reducing in successive years until reaching a figure of $229bn by 2009. |
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| | $2.4 trillion U.S. deficit is forecast / 10-year estimate up $1 trillion in just 6 months |
| | According to the agency, the deficit is already in line to fall from $477 billion this year to $268 billion in 2009 -- the last year for which Bush would write a budget, presuming he is re-elected. | | | Election-year debate over deficits is all but certain to pit spending-cut advocates against those who are pressing to raise taxes or, at the least, allow current tax cuts to lapse. | | | Democrats already are using the current national debt of $7 trillion to contrast Bush's economic and budget record with that of President Bill Clinton, who managed a string of budget surpluses during his final years in office, the first in nearly three decades. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/01/27/MNGVK4IMQB1.DTL
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| | Bush deficit plan seen having murky math - U.S. Business - MSNBC.com |
| | And the numbers in Bush's deficit cutting plan don’t include future spending increases, or even the permanent tax cuts Bush is proposing, according to Chuck Gabriel, a senior political analyst at Prudential Financial in Washington. | | | As those new jobs generate more taxes, the administration says, the federal budget deficit can be reduced without raising tax rates. | | | In his speech, Bush said the deficit — expected to top $500 billion this fiscal year — could be cut in half over five years by slowing growth in spending on many programs to under four percent a year. |
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4019384
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| | Reason |
| | Resolving Reagan's fiscal rupture—that is, reducing the deficit to pre-Reagan levels, as a share of GDP—took only four years (from 1983 to 1987); resolving Nixon's took 20. | | | He and Congress revoked a substantial share of the 1981 tax cut, and by 1987 the defense budget was coming down almost as fast as it had gone up. | | | Reagan is generally blamed for the deficit crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s. |
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http://www.reason.com/rauch/012604.shtml
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| | Debt and the dollar: The United States damages future living standards by borrowing itself into a deceptively deep hole |
| | The result was a merchandise trade deficit equal to 5.2% of GDP in the third quarter of 2004, an increase of 4% of GDP since the beginning of 1997. | | | Between January 1997 and January 2002, the dollar index rose from 90.5 to 113 and the current account deficit deteriorated by 2.5% of GDP (from a deficit that was already equal to 1.8% of GDP). | | | The recent current account deficit has been driven almost entirely by the merchandise trade account, with the gap between exports and imports (or, the trade deficit) accounting for about 90% of the overall current account deficit. |
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http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/Issuebrief203
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| | Official Treasury Report Shows Fourth Year Of Deficit Growth, Despite Economic Recovery, 10/14/04 |
| | At $413 billion, the 2004 deficit was $36 billion higher than the 2003 deficit, which stood at $377 billion. | | | Moreover, the Treasury report shows that the improvement between OMB’s July estimate of a $445 billion deficit and today’s report of $413 billion deficit has occurred primarily because expenditures are $27 billion lower than projected in July; revenues are only $5 billion higher. | | | As we have discussed in previous analyses of the Administration’s budget plans,* such deficit projections cannot be taken seriously; they substantially understate likely deficits in future years for at least three reasons. |
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http://www.cbpp.org/10-14-04bud.htm
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| | BBC NEWS Business US trade deficit balloons again |
| | The deficit - the amount by which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports - rose to $54bn (43.2bn euros ; £30bn), the Commerce Department said. | | | A large trade deficit is potentially destabilising as it tends to weaken the value of the dollar relative to other currencies. | | | The US trade deficit widened to the second-highest level on record in August, official figures have shown. |
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| | CNN.com - Budget office projects U.S. deficit to hit $477 billion - Jan. 26, 2004 |
| | The federal deficit will hit a record $477 billion this year and get worse if lawmakers cut taxes or increase spending, the Congressional Budget Office projected Monday in a report sure to become ammunition in the election-year fight over red ink. | | | The budget office also estimated that deficits for the decade ending in 2013 would total nearly $2.4 trillion. | | | Rather, they provide lawmakers with a baseline from which to measure the effect their policies would have on the budget. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/01/26/budget.deficits.ap
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| | A Record Deficit (washingtonpost.com) |
| | The lesson of the new deficit numbers is that these cuts are a cost the country cannot afford. | | | The administration says not: The deficit, though "unwelcome," is not high when measured as a percentage of the economy. | | | As for the promise to cut the deficit in half, the administration manages that feat only by ignoring known or likely costs, such as fixing the alternative minimum tax, funding operations in Iraq and paying for its announced defense plans. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41149-2004Aug4.html
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| | Federal budget deficit forecast to hit nearly $2.4 trillion over next decade |
| | Next year's deficit is expected to decline to $362 billion. | | | But the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan group that supports a balanced budget, said that if all expiring tax cuts are made permanent and spending continues to rise at the same rate, the CBO estimate of total deficits could be increased by $5.4 trillion over 10 years. | | | Bush has said little about deficits lately but has tried to assure voters that the economy is improving and that jobs are starting to return (about 2.3 million jobs have been lost in the past three years). |
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| | White House Predicts 2004 Deficit Of $445 Billion -- the Biggest Ever (washingtonpost.com) |
| | "The deficit remains at a level that we think is unwelcome," said Joshua B. Bolten, director of the Office of Management and Budget. | | | But Bolten said declining deficit projections for the next four years do not include additional emergency spending, which is expected to reach tens of billions of dollars. | | | The White House forecast yesterday that the U.S. budget deficit for this year will be a highest-ever $445 billion, lower than the administration previously predicted but nearly 20 percent larger than last year's record shortfall. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27211-2004Jul30.html
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| | Budget Deficit Drops Again - CBS News |
| | Last year's deficit was a record in dollar terms, though many previous deficits in the mid-1980s and early 1990s were larger when measured against the size of the economy. | | | The White House foresees a $333 billion deficit for the year that's about to end and a $341 billion deficit for next year. | | | CBO predicts a $314 billion deficit for the budget year starting Oct. 1. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/15/national/main778985.shtml
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| | International Business: U.S. Trade Deficit Reaches a Record $489.4 Billion |
| | The deficit, which is the difference between the value of foreign goods and services purchased in this country and the amount of American goods and services sold overseas, is now the largest in history. | | | The United States deficit with China rose to a record $124 billion and to $94.3 billion with the European Union. | | | The deficit for goods was $549.4 billion, the highest on record. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/14/business/worldbusiness/14trade.html?ex=1392181200&en=16f1b059a8d5a2eb&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND
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| | The Unlocked Box - How Bush is plundering Social Security to close the deficit. By Daniel Gross |
| | But that size deficit, at roughly 4.5% of GDP (compared with a modern peak of 6% during the 80s), is not historically out of range; and it is entirely manageable, if we continue the president's strong pro-growth economic policies and sound fiscal restraint. | | | That year, according to the Office of Management and Budget's projections, the on-budget deficit will be about $464 billion. | | | The International Monetary Fund, which usually frets about runaway fiscal policies in developing countries, yesterday released a report that warned of the dangers to the global economy posed by the United States' lack of spending discipline, its reliance on foreign creditors, and its failure to plan adequately for future government liabilities. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2093707
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| | Rich Lowry on Daschle & deficit on |
| | The deficit won't soon become a super-charged issue again as it was circa 1994, because most people understand a war and a recession are pretty good excuses for deficit spending. | | | Democrats love to talk up the deficit as a way to block tax cuts; Republicans love it as a way to block Democratic spending. | | | In short, let the Democratic party and its allied scribblers hoist the deficit as an issue around their necks and stumble under its weight from person to person forevermore, repeating their strange tale of fiscal woe. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry011102.shtml
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| | Some analysts say Bush's deficit-cutting plan is an illusion - Jan. 26, 2004 |
| | Some observers have said deficits don't matter, noting the economy survived enormous deficits under President Reagan, and claiming the economic boom of the 1990s may have been due, in part, to deficit spending. | | | The Congressional Budget Office estimated Monday that the federal budget deficit would swell to $477 billion this year, a record in terms of the sheer number of dollars involved, amounting to 4.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), the highest level since a record 4.8 percent in 1986. | | | Jeremy Siegel of Wharton School of Business talks about budget deficits and whether tax cuts were a mistake. |
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http://money.cnn.com/2004/01/26/news/economy/election_budget
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| | Bloomberg.com: U.S. |
| | Her firm expects the July 13 report to forecast a 2005 deficit of $315 billion to $330 billion. | | | The White House is scheduled to issue its revised estimates on tax collections, spending and the deficit on July 13. | | | For the first three quarters of the spending year, the deficit reached an estimated $251 billion, down from $327 billion at this time a year ago. |
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aWHbMYS3rEvY&refer=us
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| | Center for Economic & Policy Research |
| | This deficit corresponds to a transfer of $550 billion in U.S. financial assets, such as stocks, bonds, and short-term deposits, to foreign wealth holders. | | | The failure to incorporate the impact of the current account deficit is likely to lead to an overstatement of revenue of approximately the same amount. | | | The paper shows that if the annual current account deficit remains near $500 billion for the next decade, then the deficits will be considerably larger than the projections indicate. |
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http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0202-09.htm
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| | The U.S. budget is in worse shape than many people think - Aug. 27, 2003 |
| | The size of the deficit could be critical to the broader economy, according to some economists, who worry it could force interest rates ever higher, raising the cost of borrowing and slowing down growth. | | | At that pace, if the tax cuts are made permanent and a prescription drug plan is passed, the 2004-2008 deficit projection jumps to $2.6 trillion, and the 2004-2013 deficit projection surges to $6.2 trillion. | | | The CBO also said it expects deficits from 2004 to 2008 to total $1.44 trillion, easily the worst five-year period in history. |
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http://money.cnn.com/2003/08/27/news/economy/budget
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| | The Bush Economy |
| | The federal budget is drifting into a future of unprecedented tax increases, huge deficits or both....There's already a clear bipartisan policy concerning the future: Forget about it. | | | Conversely, running deficits in times of very low inflation means that the real cost of the debt escalates much faster. | | | After 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan, the budget deficit was growing. |
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| | deficit |
| | July 2003 budget analysis found that the US government\'s deficit over the ten year period from 2004 through 2013 would total $4.1 trillion. | | | deficit), you must borrow some more, and you\'ll still have to pay the interest on the loan. | | | October 20, the Treasury closed the books on fiscal year 2003 and reported a deficit of $374 billion... |
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| | U.S. trade deficit soars to $58.3 billion - Stocks & Economy - MSNBC.com |
| | The soaring trade deficit must be financed by foreigners willing to hold U.S. dollars in exchange for the products they sell to the United States. | | | The concern has been that the trade deficit at some point could rise so far that foreigners become reluctant to hold dollar-denominated assets such as stocks and bonds. | | | Critics point to the huge trade deficits as evidence that President Bush’s trade policies are not working and have cost America millions of lost jobs as U.S. manufacturing companies have moved production abroad to low-wage countries such as China. |
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| | NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. Debating the Deficit. Overview PBS |
| | Below are the CBO and Rivlin and Sawhill's projections for deficits through 2014, and historical information on U.S. deficits and government spending as a proportion of Gross Domestic Product. | | | The numbers are so high that traditional fiscal conservatives are battling with others in their party about the President's 2005 spending plans. | | | In April, the CBO raised its estimate of the 2004 budget deficit to 477 billion dollars, up from 307 billion dollars a year ago. |
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http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/deficit.html
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| | Trade Deficit Blame Game |
| | The United States is headed towards a 2004 trade deficit of $600 billion, which will be about 13 percent higher than the previous record, set in 2003, and comes to about 6 percent of GDP, a figure that many economists say is unsustainable. | | | The Chinese and the Europeans blame the Americans for not reining in the government's budget deficit, which Rodrigo Rato, director general of the International Monetary Fund, told a meeting of central bankers in Basel is "truly excessive." This atmosphere of mutual recrimination is likely to blight next month's G-7 meeting in London. | | | But there may be less to the deficit figure than at first meets the eye. |
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| | Scotsman.com Business - Greenspan says US deficit is untenable |
| | Nobody is saying the massive deficit is an imminent problem. | | | Abandoning his normal style of draping an ambiguous nugget in something diaphanously delphic, Greenspan says America’s helium-filled current account deficit is worrying. | | | Scotsman.com Business - Greenspan says US deficit is untenable |
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http://business.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1362762004
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| | Buzzcharts: Jerry Bowyer on Falling Deficits on NRO Financial |
| | The reports say that these revisions include a projected budget deficit in fiscal year 2004 of $480 billion. | | | But it’s very odd indeed for public commentators to uncritically accept bad budget news about 2004 and in the same breath, reject good budget news about the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 when both are based on exactly the same model. | | | It has also been reported that the deficit for 2004 will be the largest in American history. |
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| | CNN.com - Conservatives stew as Bush spending grows - Jan. 6, 2004 |
| | Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said the Medicare bill could cost from $1.7 trillion to $2 trillion during its second 10 years, as the huge baby boom generation retires and foists added costs on taxpayers. | | | Mounting spending has combined with the recession and two major tax cuts to turn a four-year string of annual surpluses into deficits that last year hit $374 billion, the worst ever in dollar terms. | | | And those in power have determined the road to staying in power is paved with government spending," said Brian Riedl, who monitors the budget for the conservative Heritage Foundation. |
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| | About Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - ADD / ADHD |
| | This may be due to the requirement for a higher level of organization and planning skills which they do not have. | | | Third, the child develops selective attention where he is able to shift focus at will from being inclusive to being very exclusive. | | | The CDI Store has a number of items that can help ADD/ADHD children and teens improve their performance at school. |
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| | Technorati Tag: deficit |
| | Record Deficit in February March 10th, 2006 Just want to let you all know that, via the Washinton Post, Record spending in February pushed the federal... | | | The Republican Study Committee, a group of conservative GOP lawmakers, today released their version of the 2007 federal budget, titled "Contract with... | | | Become a member to save searches in a Watchlist. |
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| | Definition of deficit - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary |
| | 1 a (1) : deficiency in amount or quality deficit in rainfall> (2) : a lack or impairment in a functional capacity deficits> deficit> b : | | | deficit> | | | Get the Top 10 Search Results for "deficit" |
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| | PoliPundit.com » Deficit |
| | That is roughly a 25% cut in the federal deficit. | | | With the economy doing better than expected thanks to the irresponsible Bush tax cuts, the new projected deficit for 2005 is: | | | You know, Democrats ought to be worried about oil prices. |
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| | Federal Budget Spending and the National Debt |
| | Soon the interest payment on your loan is bigger than any other item in your budget. | | | If next month you don't have enough money to cover your spending (another deficit), you must borrow some more, and you'll still have to pay the interest on the loan. | | | If you have a deficit every month, you keep borrowing and your debt grows. |
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| | Time to Tackle the Pension Crisis |
| | According to the PBGC, which is funded by the assets of the plans it takes over and annual premiums paid by all companies with traditional pension schemes, the insurer lost $12 billion in fiscal 2004 as its long-term deficit rose to $23.3 billion, from $11.2 billion in 2003. | | | Last year, the PBGC paid more than $3 billion in benefits to over 1 million people, all veterans of companies that had pushed their plans over to the PBGC when they fell into financial turmoil. | | | On Nov. 15, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) revealed a deficit of that amount, more than double any previous shortfall reported by the government-sponsored pension insurer. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2004/nf20041116_1507_db016.htm
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| | Term Papers On Deficit, Research Papers, Essays |
| | A proposed tax cut affects budget deficit in that it reduces national savings, resulting to an inward shift in IS curve, which marks a trade deficit. | | | A tax cut resulting to budget deficit happens because a decrease in tax raises disposable income (Y-T), which in turn stimulates people to consume... | | | Number of paragraphs: 4 Number of sentences: 12 Number of words: 312 |
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| | The Concord Coalition |
| | New York Times Ad: A "Deficit Reduction" Plan Should Reduce the Deficit (Not Increase It!) | | | Seven Signs of Fiscal Sense: What to Look for in the President's Budget |
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| | Marketplace: Deficit |
| | Marketplace commentator Robert Reich says the national deficit, which is growing once more this year to a record $427 billion, doesn't take into account war expenditures, permanent tax cuts, and paying interest on federal borrowing, let alone the privatization of Social Security. | | | February 24 PM February 24 AM Full archives |
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http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2005/01/26/PM200501264.html
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