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added 2007 Tue May 29 10:48:21 by charbarred
The federal government recorded a $1.3 trillion loss last year, far more than the official $248 billion deficit when corporate-style accounting standards are used.
added 2007 Tue May 29 10:48:21 by charbarred
The federal government recorded a $1.3 trillion loss last year, far more than the official $248 billion deficit when corporate-style accounting standards are used.
added 2007 Tue May 29 10:48:21 by charbarred
The federal government recorded a $1.3 trillion loss last year, far more than the official $248 billion deficit when corporate-style accounting standards are used.
added 2007 Tue May 29 10:48:21 by charbarred
The federal government recorded a $1.3 trillion loss last year, far more than the official $248 billion deficit when corporate-style accounting standards are used.
added 2007 Thu Mar 15 21:13:25 by populist
It isn't in China's interest for the US to crash and burn economically, but neither is propping up the dollar indefinitely, especially if it ceases to be the oil transaction currency standard. The danger, however, is that if China divests of dollars in earnest, other countries will follow suit.
added 2007 Thu Mar 15 19:03:44 by populist
To finance the trade deficit, Americans are borrowing and selling assets at a net pace of $856.7 billion a year.
added 2007 Thu Mar 15 19:00:54 by populist
The deficit in the broadest measure of trade hit an all-time high last year and for the first time the United States even ran a deficit on investment income.
added 2007 Tue Feb 20 15:56:34 by ochs
Why is it that when people talk about (the U.S. budget), the gross domestic product is brought up and explained that our deficit is at a low level? Why is the national debt -- $8.7 trillion, which climbs at almost $2 billion a day -- never mentioned?
added 2006 Fri Aug 18 1:05:34 by TimALoftis
The Congressional Budget Office on Thursday estimated that the federal deficit will decline to $260 billion this year but will increase to $286 billion next year.
added 2006 Fri Aug 4 0:51:47 by Ousama
The federal government keeps two sets of books. Its somewhere between $318 billion to $3.5 trillion depending on which books you look at.