Shorting Fiscal Consolidation

First there is the issue of how fast to reduce government deficits and the accumulation of public debt.

With government deficits the norm, that appears unlikely.

Noting the emergency measures taken by the territorial Government to cut budget deficit and government spending,

Noting the emergency measures taken by the territorial Government to cut the budget deficit and government spending,

That will prolong excessive government spending, and deficit targets will not be met on a sustained basis.

Sometimes, even often, economies prosper nicely after the government s deficit is sharply reduced.

So raising inflation is no cure for the government s current debt or future deficits.

A substantial part of the increased deficit will be due to a wide range of new government spending.

Even if this widens the deficit in the short run, it will reduce the national debt in the long run.

Budget deficits automatically increase government debt, requiring higher future taxes to pay the interest on that debt.

For many adjusting countries, the need to reduce the fiscal deficit meant that government expenditures had to be curtailed and additional revenues generated.

Once again, we would see what might appear, from looking at the government deficit, to be an austerity to prosperity scenario.

Today, the best way to use deficits and government debt is to focus on distributional issues, particularly the unemployed, both actual and potential.

They also believe that the government deficit drives up inflation and interest rates, thereby crowding out other spending by consumers and firms.

Government deficits rarely exceeded 3 of GDP in past decades, and there were surpluses in recent years.

Since that exceeds the size of the government deficit, it implies that private markets do not need to buy any of the newly issued government debt.

14 17. Governmental non governmental cooperation

maintain our efforts to expand the scope of economic surveillance to include government deficits and public as well as private sector debt, if necessary by imposing political penalties

To head off this possibility, the EU created the Stability and Growth Pact government deficits had to be less than 3 of GDP.

When weak aggregate demand causes the economy to operate far below its potential, cuts in government spending enlarge the jobs deficit.

But this direct link between higher household saving and a lower dollar will only be forged if higher household saving is not outweighed by a rise in government dis saving, i.e., by a larger government deficit.

Cooperation took place at the governmental and non governmental level.

Yet another vacuous budget deal, in conjunction with weaker than expected growth for the US economy for years to come, spells a protracted period of outsize government deficits.

When the EFSF was created, it was assumed that the only problem was to ensure financing for the government deficits of the four prospective problem countries (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain).

Cuts to child allowances and unemployment pay have caused a consistent rise in the poverty rate, and government income transfers designed to combat it make an even smaller dent in poverty now than they did in the 1980s.

Liberal cycles are characterized by government intervention and conservative cycles by government retreat.

Labour s model of the economy implies maintaining the deficit for as long as needed, and even increasing government spending if the recovery appears to be flagging. But Labour is too afraid of the markets to say so openly.

In Europe, especially Germany, and in some quarters in the US, as government deficits and debt grow, so, too, do calls for increased austerity.

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America s multilateral trade deficit will not be significantly narrowed until America saves significantly more while the Great Recession induced higher household savings (which were near zero), this has been more than offset by the increased government deficits.

Indeed, despite the large government deficit and the enormous government debt now close to 200 of GDP the interest rate on 10 year Japanese government bonds is just 1 , the lowest such rate in the world.

In the short to medium run, fiscal consolidation whether in the form of cutting government spending or increasing revenues results in lower output and employment, which means lower tax collection, higher deficits, and escalating debt relative to GDP.

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And deficits can lead to inflation if central banks monetize the government debt, a serious concern in financial markets, as China has warned America.

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