In a future article I will discuss ways to address excess federal deficits and debt.
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Governments and central banks have supported the recovery with huge fiscal deficits and near-zero interest rates.
We have to deal with our long-term -- with our short-term deficits and our long-term debt.
We know that trillion dollar deficits and Quantitative Easing need to come to an end.
The deficits and national debt will more or less rise in line with these spending increases.
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States were facing deep deficits and cutbacks in HMO-based Medicaid coverage for the poor.
The issue is: is a person able to acknowledge their deficits and seek help.
Many now claim that government deficits and Fed easing prevented a repeat of the Great Depression.
Nations would settle international payment deficits and surpluses in gold rather than paper-based currencies.
The idea of imitating France, with its budget deficits and sickly manufacturing sector, seems bizarre.
And one concern that I have obviously is the politics of deficits and debt.
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Current-account deficits and infrastructure bottlenecks won't go away so soon in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Many businesspeople fear that such spendthrift policies will lead to budget deficits and higher inflation.
Having supported banks, governments are trying to cut deficits and have little to spend.
That is why you are concerned about trillion dollar annual deficits and escalating federal debt.
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Then, excess demand resulted in higher inflation, huge current-account deficits and rampant asset-price inflation.
Some municipalities are showing strain under the weight of accelerating deficits and declining revenues.
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He contemplates Medicare and Social Security deficits and offers 70% as a plausible guess.
Its deficits and debt were the consequence of the burst property bubble, not the cause.
Meanwhile he is stuck with trillion dollar deficits and no longer can blame the rich.
That would cause revenues to collapse, spending to soar further, and deficits and debt to further explode.
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But all of them would reduce deficits and debt levels below where they would be without action.
The Germans still maintain that cutting deficits and implementing structural reforms opens the road to growth later.
But government budget deficits and a growing debt burden will eventually lead to sharp increases in both.
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And part of that will be the need to aggressively deal with our deficits and long-term debt.
And Geithner has prevailed with Obama arguing that deficits and debt are the biggest problem America faces.
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Many would agree that during this period unemployment, federal deficits and the federal debt were too high.
Respondents could say yes to more than one choice, but deficits and debt got the biggest response.
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We sure don't have it any longer in our government because we're back into deficits and debt.
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The two sides remain ideologically opposed on how to reduce the nation's chronic federal deficits and debt.
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