Krugman writes: "You still hear politicians ranting about 'trillion dollar deficits,' but last year's deficit was less than half-a-trillion dollars - or, a more meaningful number, just 2.8 percent of G.D.P. - and it's still falling."
Paul Krugman. (photo: NYT)
Secret Deficit Lovers
11 October 14
hat if they balanced the budget and nobody knew or cared?
O.K., the federal budget hasn’t actually been balanced. But the Congressional Budget Office has tallied up the totals for fiscal 2014, which ran through the end of September, and reports that the deficit plunge of the past several years continues. You still hear politicians ranting about “trillion dollar deficits,” but last year’s deficit was less than half-a-trillion dollars — or, a more meaningful number, just 2.8 percent of G.D.P. — and it’s still falling.
So where are the ticker-tape parades? For that matter, where are the front-page news reports? After all, talk about the evils of deficits and the grave fiscal danger facing America dominated Washington for years. Shouldn’t we be making a big deal of the fact that the alleged crisis is over?
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