Additionally, the country's budget includes
deficit spending accounting for 3.
Not exact matches
A widening U.S. current
account deficit and greater
spending increase the greenback's supply over time, said Marc Franklin of Conning Asia Pacific.
Instead, we should have been financing our budget
deficits by having our central banks (or the ECB) simply create the money and credit it to the various governments»
spending accounts — that is, by using helicopter money..
Because capital exports are just the obverse of a current
account surplus, this meant that after
spending much of the 1990s in
deficit, Germany's excess production, caused not by a surge in production but rather a decline in consumption, was resolved by the country's running a current
account surplus.
But after the Korean War broke out, U.S. overseas military
spending accounted for the entire payments
deficit during the 1950s and «60s and early «70s, while private - sector trade and investment were exactly in balance.
In this edition of Graphic Intelligence we see how, restated to its true value in accordance to commonly accepted
accounting standards, the Ontario baseline
deficit in the upcoming 2018/2019 fiscal year would be about $ 7 billion, growing to a projected $ 10 billion in four years — and this before any new
spending in the 2018 budget.
«In the short to medium term, Angola may have to struggle with a weakening current -
account deficit, lower fiscal revenue and likely cuts in government
spending,» says Abiola Rasaq, head of research and strategy at Lagos - based financial institution Associated Discount House.
The robust pace of
spending by US households and businesses saw the current
account deficit widen further in the December quarter, reaching 6.3 per cent of GDP.
Why should a country that has a current
account deficit of $ 9.5 trillion be
spending money on other countries» water problems when we are so seriously neglecting our own infrastructure?
Mr Osborne has given an interview to the FT (of which there is more inside the paper here) in which he asserts that Labour's projected 1.1 % annual increase in public
spending between 2011 and 2014 is «unsustainable» and that it will be
spending cuts rather than tax rises which
account for reducing the the fiscal
deficit:
Cuomo's budget division says it will cover most of the $ 3.5 billion
deficit with unspecified cuts (and some
accounting gimmicks, no doubt, like re-classifying certain
spending programs) that hold operating
spending growth to 2 percent.
In its most recent forecast, the Bank of Canada predicted the economy would grow by 1.4 per cent this year, but that did not
account for the new
spending in the budget, which forecasts a
deficit this year of nearly $ 30 billion.
Fergusson's book is a pretty horrific
account of the hyper - inflationary spiral in Weimar Germany, brought on by
deficit spending and the wholesale printing of money.