…Operating surplus/deficit = unified deficit – net investment (public capital investment – depreciation of public capital) 3. Primary surplus/deficit = unified deficit – interest outlays on inherited debt 4. Cyclically…

Over the past decade, thanks to fracking, the US has approached self-sufficiency in oil. Since 2008 the trade deficit in oil fell from over half of the overall trade deficit…

Trade Deficit Increases 5.6% to Record High in March on Rising Imports of Consumer Goods, MarketWatch666, Commenter RJS Our trade deficit was at another record high in March, 5.6% higher…

…June goods trade deficit was at $91,207 million on a Census basis, up from the $88,160 million goods deficit reported in May . . . this report revises those figures…

…total Social Security ‘surplus’ which is then deducted from any General Fund deficits to generate the top level number we generally recognize as ‘the deficit’ (as in Obama is on…

…sold at major retailers today, such as legendary Half of Fame MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan’s private label beef that is carried exclusively at Kroger stores, or at his private label…

…the deficit hawks grow louder: Repent all yee fiscal profligates, before the “day of reckoning” comes. Let’s dial down the Biblical hysteria a wee bit while there’s still time for…

…Asia, especially if the deficit hawks begin sounding the alarm on the inexorable rise of the US government deficit (which will almost certainly rise in the scenario we have sketched…

by Bruce Webb Press release from the House Ways and Means Committee dated Saturday July 18th. CBO Scores Confirms Deficit Neutrality of Health Reform Bill Washington, D.C. — The Congressional…

…US deficit and to this day sustains it are thoroughly logical. There is no inherent problem with a trade deficit, but the US trade deficit has its advantages and its…