by Joseph Joyce America’s Current Accounts Deficits: Not Quite Déjà Vu The U.S. current account deficit has narrowed since 2006, when it reached $807 billion, which represented 5.8% of U.S….

…I disagree and commenting. Referring to 2010 Even if existing debt had been entirely eliminated, the primary deficit, which was very large at the start of the program, would have…

…CBO did a cost analysis showing it would create a deficit. Using Reconciliation to pass a bill, the legislation passed and creating a deficit must expire in 10 years. Bush’s…

…12.1 to Monetary Economics . The graph looks like this, in a three-sector presentation: The common takeaway: government deficit spending (plus/minus trade imbalances) equals private-sector “surplus.” Government deficit spending is…

Dan here…a reminder about our federal deficit. Deficits Do Matter, But Not the Way You Think 07.20.10 Roosevelt institute L. Randall Wray In recent months, a form of mass hysteria…

…graph looks like this, in a three-sector presentation: The common takeaway: government deficit spending (plus/minus trade imbalances) equals private-sector “surplus.” Government deficit spending is the “source” of that private-sector surplus…

…expanded from around $60,000 ( real 2009 ) to around $70,000 ( real 2009 ) or 16%. The real trade deficit is the flip side of the federal budget deficit…

…as another piece of evidence showing that the trade deficit is driven by the imbalance between US savings and investment.  The federal deficit is negative savings so it is a…

…years after the war, hardly of the same caliber as the wartime deficits, and then it was business as usual: mostly modest deficits with the occasional surplus or breakeven year….

…of GDP, then the rule that the debt/GDP ratio must not rise implies an allowed primary deficit of (g-r)Debt (the primary deficit is the deficit not counting interest on the…