So to satisfy the accounting rule, all the adjustment in the private-sector deficit had to be accommodated by a rise in the budget deficit.

ECONOMIST: Governments have resumed their profligate habits

Men used to rule the roost and making the adjustment to a slightly more equal world has hit some of them hard.

ECONOMIST: American men

On the other hand, the Buffet rule is just a convenient way to gather support for the tax-rate adjustment.

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