Budget deficit is usually divided into cyclical deficit and structural deficit, but this classification is assumed that the irregular component in budget is zero.

财政赤字通常被划分为周期性赤字和结构性赤字，这样的分类方法是以不规则财政收支为零作为前提。

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Even if you strip out the cyclical economic effects, the 1% surplus he inherited had become a deficit of more than 2% of GDP last year.

即使扣除经济周期效果，布什所继承的1%盈余在2008年已变成占GDP2%强的赤字。

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The "cyclical" deficit is the gap that will automatically disappear when the economy has recovered.

“周期性”赤字则是指那部分经济复苏后会自动消失的缺口。

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Another 2.7% is the cyclical deficit, which should disappear of its own accord as the economy recovers boosting tax revenues and reducing unemployment benefit payments.

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One assumes that at some point things get back to normal and revenues begin to rise and the cyclical part of the deficit goes away.

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"We're in a much worse situation than in 1992 because more of this deficit is structural rather than cyclical and the entitlement explosion is closer at hand, " says Goldman Sachs chief economist William Dudley.

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