These were my considerations when I issued the decree introducing austerity measures to cut the budget deficit down to 2.5 per cent of GDP.

So, how should the US economy s jobs deficit, investment deficit, and long run fiscal deficit be addressed?

The Energy Deficit

There is both a knowledge deficit and an understanding deficit.

The Global Trust Deficit

Budget deficit

Deficit (surplus)

A deficit?

BERKELEY The United States is beset by four deficits a fiscal deficit, a jobs deficit, a deficit in public investment, and an opportunity deficit. The budget proposals put forward by presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, could reduce the fiscal deficit, but would exacerbate the other three.

But none of these is the deficit that really matters. The deficit that prevents Europe from drawing a line under its crisis is a deficit of trust.

The Sino American Trust Deficit

What is the Deficit Endgame?

VII. The Conference s financial deficit

Romney has provided few details about his deficit reduction plan. But, based on what he has revealed, we know that it would increase the jobs deficit, the investment deficit, and the opportunity deficit, with negative consequences for future growth and prosperity.

Europe s Trust Deficit

Europe s Vision Deficit

Difference (surplus deficit)

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The old orthodoxy held that one had to cut the deficit raise taxes or cut expenditures to restore confidence. But those policies almost always reduced aggregate demand, pushed the economy into a deeper slump, and further undermined confidence  most recently when the International Monetary Fund insisted on them in East Asia in the 1990 s.

The old orthodoxy held that one had to cut the deficit raise taxes or cut expenditures to restore confidence. But those policies almost always reduced aggregate demand, pushed the economy into a deeper slump, and further undermined confidence most recently when the International Monetary Fund insisted on them in East Asia in the 1990 s.

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But it did not. Some economists claim that governments faced a balance of risk in 2010 Cutting the deficit might have slowed growth but not committing to cut it might have made things even worse.

It perpetuates deficit spending.

Europe s Pointless Deficit Targets?

America s Misplaced Deficit Complacency

Global Warming s Technology Deficit

Closing America s Jobs Deficit

3. Projected operating deficit

3. Projected operating deficit

3. Projected operating deficit

3. Projected operating deficit

3. Projected operating deficit

3. Projected operating deficit

Surplus (deficit) for period

Valuation results surplus (deficit)

During the last two years, Washington has been obsessed with the need to cut the deficit and put the debt GDP ratio on a sustainable path, even as global investors have flocked to US government debt, driving interest rates to historic lows. The considerable progress that has been made on deficit reduction over the next ten years has been overlooked.

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The counterargument hinges on the difference between the current account deficit and the trade deficit. The current account deficit is equal to the trade deficit plus the cost of servicing the net international asset position the net rent, interest, and dividends owed to foreigners who have invested their capital in the US.

(b) Surplus deficit position of the fund

But he is also proposing a significant cut in the corporate tax rate. To many, this approach seems inconsistent Shouldn t the corporate tax rate be raised, not lowered, so that corporations contribute their fair share to deficit reduction?

Attention deficit disorder, bipolar disorder.

D. Actual expenditures and deficit

Mr. Bailey, there's a deficit.

By focusing on the budget deficit, it is chasing symptoms, not causes. It is putting forward economically and politically impossible recommendations, telling Argentina to cut public services to the extreme, when schools and hospitals are already on the verge of collapse.