The long term impact of the US deficit
Yesterday the Obama administration proposed a nearly $4 trillion budget for 2011. A front page analysis in today’s New York Times points out that the projected deficit in the coming year is nearly 11 percent of the country’s entire economic output and may not change any time soon.
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