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Recent Posts
BEA Indicators
- U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, February 2025
- Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account, U.S. and States, 2023
- Gross Domestic Product by State and Personal Income by State, 4th Quarter 2024 and Preliminary 2024
- Personal Income and Outlays, February 2025
- Gross Domestic Product, 4th Quarter and Year 2024 (Third Estimate), GDP by Industry, and Corporate Profits
Tag Archives: budget deficits
How Much of the Stimulus Money has Already Been Spent?
One of the (many) problems with using big increases in federal government spending as an economic stimulus tool is timing. You can’t appropriate and spend it fast enough to matter much during the downturn. Spending it years later, after the … Continue reading
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A Simple Guide to Understanding Budget Deficits and Interest Rates
Note: When I wrote this explanation of budget deficits and interest rates just a year ago as a chapter of my book, Lessons from a Road Warrior, we were in a different world where budgets mattered, at least a little. … Continue reading
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Tagged assets, bonds, budget deficits, Economy, interest rates, Rutledge
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