…any number of ‘deficits’ including ‘on-budget deficit’, ‘off-budget deficit’, and ‘primary deficit’. But here they simply reference THE ‘deficit’ without qualification. So which of the three above adjectivally modified ‘deficits’…

…It is precisely because the federal government can borrow so cheaply that our interest payments are corresponding low. Deficit hawks—economists and politicians alike—have been insisting for years that the rates…

…deficit and national debt. See Attention: Deficit Disorder and the Real Crisis Ahead, Naked Capitalism (Oct. 29, 2013), reposting article with the same title by Fadhel Kaboub, New Economic Perspectives….

…should be removed if one is thinking of long term sustainability. I think the reason the absurd number is used is that it is high, so deficit hawks, deficit peacocks,…

by Linda Beale crossposted with Ataxingmatter The hypocrisy of most deficit discussions Congress seems incapable of setting aside electioneering rhetoric and talking straight about taxes and deficits. The GOP claims…

…is about public attitudes on the deficit and on proposed solutions. As a normal journalist, Weisman stresses anecdotes and only briefly mentions polling data. I list episodes of what I…

…deficit entirely. “Nobody likes making cuts, but the nation’s current rate of spending and the decreased tax revenues we’ve seen since implementing my tax cuts have created a deficit that…

…the deficit, see The Budgetary Effects of the Bush Tax Cuts.) It is equally clear that any plan that hopes to seriously reduce the US’s budget deficit will almost certainly…

…time international trade policy was dominated by “mercantilism” — the belief that trade deficits were bad because they drained deficit countries of gold and silver, which accrued to surplus countries….

…and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and economy of the United States.” What can bilateral trade deficits and the…