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Original Technorati articles tagged “budget deficit”

• in Politics
  Looking for News? Skip This Week’s Focus on the Debt-Reduction Super Committee
  Avoid the IQ-Lowering Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing
  by ozdachs / on Nov 21, 2011
• in Politics
  Bogus Job Creators
  The premise that taxing the rich will hurt job growth is false, and it's killing our ability to balance the federal budget.
  by dstookey / on Jul 27, 2011
• in Politics
  Rand's Philosophy Needed to Guide Budget Reform...and Much More
  Rand's philosophy as the building blocks of judgment, of Democracy.
  by kapitalcon / on Jul 15, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “budget deficit”

 

• Top Economist: “Obama Won’t Finish Term Without Bottom Dropping Out”

  
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  That’s according to Peter Schiff, the best-selling author and CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, who delivered his harsh warning to investors in a recent interview on Fox Business. “The crisis is imminent,” Schiff said. “I don’t think Obama is going to finish his second term without the bottom dropping out. And ...
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• Obamas Gimmicky Budget to Increase National Debt by $5.2 Trillion

  
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  Many on the Left are praising a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) showing that President Barack Obama’s budget, which was submitted two months late , would lower deficits by $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years : President Obama’s most recent budget request would reduce borrowing by ...
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• What Wal-Mart’s Same-Store Sales Say About the Economy

  
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  Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE/WMT), the biggest retailer in the U.S., just reported its second-quarter same-store sales declined 1.4%. As a reader of Profit Confidential , this should come as no surprise to you. Consumer spending in the U.S. economy is bleak; it doesn’t seem to be improving, and it’s nowhere near ...
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• Washington Signals Dollar Deep Concerns

  
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  lewrockwell.com / By Paul Craig Roberts / May 20, 2013 Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events that can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing (QE). Quantitative Easing is the term given to the ...
  3 days ago

• Indonesias Budget Deficit May Widen to 2.5% of GDP

  
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  Indonesias budget deficit this year may widen from 1.65% of gross domestic product -- as set in the state budget-- to around 2.5% following the upcoming governments plan to raise fuel price probably at IDR 6,000 a liter. The 1.65% of deficit is equal with IDR 154 trillion. Currently, the price of subsidized ...
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• Boehner Surrenders on Spending Cuts

  
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  Washington is determined not to kick its spending habit. During his press conference yesterday, House Speaker John Boehner told reporters that “[w]e can’t cut our way to prosperity,” a line that has been used frequently by President Barack Obama. The comment prompted this tweet from Senate Majority Leader ...
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• Eric Cantor blames media for lousy GOP messaging, and focus on their debt and deficits whining.

  
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  The deficit was $1.2 trillion when Obama took office. That was the bill left by free spending Republicans during the Bush years. Before that the U.S. had projected surpluses. So who do you blame? Thats an easy one right? So how odd is it for Republicans to be this outraged Obama hasnt paid off their check ...
  2 weeks ago

• Foreign Exchange Reserve Rose in April

  
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  Indonesia foreign exchange reserve at the end of April rose to $107.27 billion from the previous month, which stood at $104.8 billion. According to central banks top official Darmin Nasution, the issuance of global bond done by the government earlier of the month was mostly attributable to the increase.   ...
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• Federal budget outlook is improving

  
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  The economy is steadily improving, and now we’re seeing improvement with the US budget deficit . In February, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted that this year’s deficit would fall to $845 billion, down from nearly $1.1 trillion in 2012. Goldman Sachs recently predicted that the deficit would ...
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• Greece makes progress on reducing its budget deficit, says IMF report

  
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  An International Monetary Fund (IMF) report has revealed today that debt-laden Greece has made progress in improving its finances, but the country must do more to fight tax evasion. In a report, the IMF said Greece had made “exceptional” progress on reducing its budget deficit since 2010. But the IMF, one of the ...
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• Intransigence got them the win. Intransigence keeps them from taking it.

  
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  Brian Beutler has an intricate and well-sourced accoun t of how the Obama administration scopes out the task of creating a "permission structure" for Republicans to compromise on a budgetary grand bargain. Broadly, its Gang of Six II, a new attempt to jump off the presidential shadow by staying in the shadows, ...
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• Fictitious figure sharpens Australian electioneering

  
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  John is the Australian prime ministers imaginary friend, a fictitious figure dreamed up to crystalise the policy differences she has with Tony Abbotts conservatives.
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• Ingenious Way Stock Market Players Are Luring in Investors

  
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  As of April 26, more than half of the companies in the S&P 500 issued their corporate earnings for the first quarter of 2013. By no surprise, and as I have been warning in these pages, only 44% of them were able to beat the sales estimated by Wall Street analysts. (Source: FactSet, April 26, 2013.) Pfizer Inc. ...
  3 weeks ago

• 2013: A Fifth Year of Trillion Dollar Deficits?

  
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  For the first time in six years, the U.S. federal government expects to reduce its national debt by $35.0 billion, which is set to happen in the third quarter of its fiscal year (April–June 2013). (Source: Wall Street Journal , April 29, 2013.) But at the same time that the U.S. Department of the Treasury ...
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• Indonesia in Figures

  
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  Despite a gloomy perspective in the global economy, Indonesia sees its economy in 2013 may grow at 6.5% from the 6.23% of the previous year, supported by strong domestic consumptions and investment. For 2014, as general elections scheduled to take place, the economy may expand at 6.8%. According to acting ...
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• Debt and the Deficit: Whats Really on the Table?

  
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  I have a feeling this session is going to be a bit irritating: Debt and the Deficit: Whats Really on the Table? Monday, April 29, 2013 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM Speakers: Bob Corker, U.S. Senator David Cote, Chairman and CEO, Honeywell; Steering Committee Member, Campaign to Fix the Debt Maya MacGuineas, ...
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• Public Debt and Economic Growth

  
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  By Robert Reich In the election of 1952 my father voted for Dwight Eisenhower. When I asked him why he explained that “FDR’s debt” was still burdening the economy — and that I and my children and my grandchildren would be paying it down for as long as we lived. I was only six years [...]
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• Risk of Debt?

  
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  Brad DeLong on when government debt is problematic, and when its not -- a short excerpt from a much longer discussion: Risks of Debt?: Extended Version, by Brad DeLong :... The principal mistake Reinhart and Rogoff committed in their analysis and paper--indeed, the only significant mistake in the paper ...
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• When the government goes rogue, who will bell the cat?

  
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  Like most lawbreakers, Greg Selinger, Stan Struthers and Theresa Oswald think theyre smarter than everyone else. In their arrogance, theyre convinced the law doesnt apply to them. They can always rely on their apologists to run interference for them, whether its Winnipeg Free Press columnist Dan Lett, ...
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• The End Of FAA Furloughs Brings Relief To New York Airports

  
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  Photo courtesy of Epsos.de The first ever FAA furlough came to a quick end this week as Congress did an about face and passed legislation to return the nation’s air traffic controllers to regular work status. The furlough had been a part of a litany of budget cuts attached to sequestration. To date, the FAA ...
  3 weeks ago

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