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Federal deficit politics

Dan Crawford | February 5, 2014 2:45 pm

US/Global Economics

For awhile the yelling in media was about the federal deficit and was to doom us all. Now voices are muted on the deficit. Here is why:

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(hat tip Spencer)

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  • rjs says:
    February 5, 2014 at 6:03 pm

    and this, too: Calculated Risk: CBO Projection: Budget Deficit to be below 3% of GDP for next four years

    Bill has a chart showing that the deficit projections as a percent of GDP will be lower than under Reagan

  • Jerry Critter says:
    February 5, 2014 at 9:11 pm

    This deficit reduction has been done without the cooperation of the republicans. Just think what could have been done if they had helped.

  • JimV says:
    February 7, 2014 at 11:51 pm

    From what I’ve learned (or thought I learned) at this site and others, deficit reduction under Obama has been too fast for our long-term good and we should have been employing people on badly-needed infrastructure projects to to maintain a better employed-workers-to-population ratio. Due to Obama’s “pivot to deficit reduction” and due to the sequester (for which the Republicans are primarily responsible), that didn’t happen.

    So while I think it was the wrong policy, I think the Republicans do deserve some credit (or in my case, blame) for the deficit reduction. I agree the Republicans have been nearly impossible to work with, however.

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