But our current discussions largely revolve around the size and persistence of the national budget deficit, the excess of government spending above tax revenue.

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That excess of 2% (or deficit, either way around) can be moved off away from the Japanese market over to, say, the German, or Latin American, one.

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As the boom is not an excess of greed, so the bust is not a greed-deficit.

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So any serious plan to tackle our deficit will require us to put everything on the table, and take on excess spending wherever it exists in the budget.

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