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There’s been a heavy focus on reducing the size of government in the name of reducing government deficit spending and the national debt.
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Erik Sherman, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2025
To fund his war machine, Putin has been throwing the living room furniture into the furnace, cannibalizing productive sectors and relying on unsustainable, record deficit spending.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, TIME, 26 Feb. 2025
While the economic activity might pick up in the coming months as policymakers are likely to step up stimulus and front-load deficit spending at the start of 2025, the economy is still struggling amid the structural headwinds and tariff threats from the new U.S. administration, Huang said.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2025
End deficit spending that is raising inflation and the cost of living.
—The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024
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Erik Sherman, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2025
To fund his war machine, Putin has been throwing the living room furniture into the furnace, cannibalizing productive sectors and relying on unsustainable, record deficit spending.
—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, TIME, 26 Feb. 2025
While the economic activity might pick up in the coming months as policymakers are likely to step up stimulus and front-load deficit spending at the start of 2025, the economy is still struggling amid the structural headwinds and tariff threats from the new U.S. administration, Huang said.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2025
End deficit spending that is raising inflation and the cost of living.
—The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Deficit spending.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deficit%20spending. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.
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