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www.gao.gov
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| | | | | Increased federal spending in response to COVID-19, as well as rising interest rates, have added to our nation's financial woes. At $2.8 trillion, the FY 2021 budget deficit was the second largest in history-just short of the FY 2020 deficit of $3.1 trillion. These historically large deficits were due primarily to the economic disruptions caused by COVID-19-which decreased revenues in FY 2020-and the additional spending by the federal government in response to help the nation recover from the pandemic. | |
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www.soberlook.com
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| | | | | Those hoping for the US economy to accelerate in the second half - and many economists made that call early in the year - will be disappoi... | |
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www.greshm.org
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| | | | | Let's conduct a thought experiment. Imagine that the government is a black box whose internal workings are completely opaque to us. We know that this black box can add money to the economy through spending or remove money from the economy through taxation. But we have no idea why the government is administering fiscal policy (spending and taxing) the way it is. This thought experiment allows us to consider the effects of fiscal policy without becoming distracted by its underlying politics. | |
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libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org
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| | | Starting in early 2018, the U.S. government imposed tariffs on over $300 billion of U.S. imports from China, increasing the average tariff rate from 2.7 percent to 17.5 percent. Much of the escalation in tariffs occurred in the second and third quarters of 2019. In response, the Chinese government retaliated, increasing the average tariff applied on U.S. exports from 5.7 percent to 20.4 percent. Our new study finds that the trade war reduced U.S. investment growth by 0.3 percentage points by the end of 2... | ||
