…banker. Kash UPDATE: On further questioning about the budget deficit, Bernanke followed up on my above-expressed desire that he refrain from suggesting how to cut the deficit, and specifically said…

…the huge numbers in the defense budget, entitlements, and the deficit; and 2) pointing out that while the Bush budget does show a halving of the deficit as a percent…

…the Council of Economic Advisors, Martin Feldstein called for a weaker dollar to reduce the U.S. deficit in the current account … Nearly twenty years later, with the Dow Jones…

PGL notes that the right-wing talking-point regarding the federal budget deficit – that the deficit is purely the result of out-of-control government spending, and that the deficit can be fixed…

…seems to be that we don’t have to worry about the consequences of the deficit: Yes, the budget deficit will rise for a year or two, from roughly 2.5 percent…

A few conservatives are rightfully concerned that the massive General Fund deficit, which is still above $500 billion a year, is too high and are turning on the Bush Administration….

…exports. Obviously, a surplus in any category would yield an X/M ratio greater than 1.00, and a deficit yields an X/M ratio less than one. During the first three months…

This morning’s release of the trade data for March by the BEA showed a bit of a narrowing of the trade deficit on goods and services, from $60.6 bn in…

…2018 “just IOUs” yahoo – that was all one great hoax as what they were really doing is subsidizing the General Fund deficit so Ronald Reagan can cut income taxes…

…as imprecise. “Its hemorrhaging money” is his subtitle but chart 5 does not say there is a current deficit – it says there is a projected deficit. Bruce once emailed…