"To run a deficit" means spending more money than what is earned or received. It refers to a situation where there is a shortfall or negative balance in finances.
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The federal government's plan to
run deficits of $ 29 billion in each of the next two years also will boost short - term growth forecasts.
The skinny is this: now, the government has cover to
run a deficit in light of this back - to - back contraction.
Make sure they are
not running a deficit and there is enough money in the reserve fund to pay for repairs.
If expenditures are projected to be higher than revenues, the district, to
avoid running a deficit, will need to reduce spending.
Given that the government is
currently running a deficit and is $ 20 trillion in debt, scratching up the money to redeem those bonds would require either higher taxes or more government borrowing.
In normal circumstances he believed in a balanced budget and maybe a bit of a surplus for bad times but what he believed was fatal to a nation was
running deficit trade imbalances.
Some provisions phase out, presumably to lower the long -
run deficit effects for scoring purposes, but that's unlikely to be enough.
At a 40 % debt - to - GDP and 2 % government bond rates, the government can
easily run a deficit to finance its growth plans.
Nothing else is large enough or stable enough, or mature enough to
run the deficits necessary to have the debt markets, to be the global reserve currency.
It isn't: both the federal government and the
economy run a deficit and a shift towards savings would make a lot of economic sense.
The school has
run a deficit of $ 150,000 every year, according to the fundraising pitch.
According to the survey, seven per cent of schools are
already running a deficit and 67 per cent thought that they would be unable to balance the books in four years time.
But trade flows appear to be shifting: the U.S.
ran a deficit with Canada over the three most recent quarters for which data are available, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The newly - elected Liberal government plans to
run deficits over the next few years, but they have assured us that these deficits will be small enough so that federal debt - to - GDP ratios will continue to fall.
You'd be surprised how long countries can comfortably
run deficits like that, but suddenly (literally over-night) they end up walking the plank — and investors end up whacked on the stock market, and the currency.
Balanced - budget law allows the federal government to
run a deficit when recession looms.
Not
running a deficit under any circumstances was the position that the Conservatives had run on in the 2008 election, and the other parties had made similar promises.
Social Security is expected to
start running a deficit in 2016, meaning that it will be paying out more than it is receiving in taxes.
• Federal Deficit — with the real cost of the $ 787 billion TARP «2009 Stimulus» translating into a $ 1.6 trillion deficit we are now struggling with, the United States has
never run a deficit of anywhere near this magnitude and it's becoming obvious that trillion - dollar - plus deficits are here until at least 2013.
New Orleans College Prep launched an early learning center this year, estimating it would
run a deficit until it breaks even after five years.
That's descending in the direction of Greece on the brink, which in four of its crisis
years ran deficits of 9 % to 11 %.
Nasdaq requires that companies have a total stockholders» equity of $ 5 million; MassRoots has a stockholders»
equity running a deficit of $ 316,737.
Prohibited
from running a deficit, and dogged by sinking credit ratings, these jurisdictions are cutting corners in some shocking places.
According to Trump's own trade representatives, the answer is no — the U.S.
does run a deficit with Canada when it comes to goods, but its surplus in services far outweighs that, leaving an overall surplus of $ 12.5 billion for 2016.
One of the things I learned from  John is that it is * not * important to balance the federal budget. Rather, what's important is that, over the long term, the size of Canada's economy grow at a faster rate than the size of our national debt. As long as the Bank of Canada keeps real interest rates low (i.e. no more than 1 % or 2 %), Canada could
conceivably run a deficit every year.
If the House passes their bill and the Senate passes theirs, they'll have to hammer out a version in conference committee that satisfies House leaders while not running afoul of the long -
run deficit rule.
None of these individuals, or institutions, however,
recommended running deficits to finance higher non-infrastructure investment spending (i.e., government consumption), but this is what the government did in the 2016 budget.
Conversely, if the
treasury ran a deficit, but financed it solely by selling securities to the private sector, all that would happen would be that existing deposits would be used to buy bonds, with the treasury then spending the money, after which it would become someone else's deposit once again.
Because before it was guy The Shrub, who sorta
kinda ran the deficit way up and started two pointless wars and wrecked the economy and little stuff like that, which people seem to think means that we Republicans can't select a decent candidate for the life of us.