deficit
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The U.S. bond market has its own problems, from the Fed to the deficit.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
They flew out of the blocks, led by the evergreen Martin Boyle, and had wiped out the two-goal deficit within 15 minutes.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
A surprising surge in the trade deficit is expected to subtract an unusually large 1.0 to 1.5 percentage points from GDP, masking the strength of the underlying economy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Through the first five months of 2026, the U.S. trade deficit totaled $297.91 billion, down about 10% from the same stretch of 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
After subsisting for three months on an exceedingly marginal diet, McCandless had run up a sizable caloric deficit.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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Narrowing the imbalance in taxes on capital and labor is one way of dealing with the largest peacetime deficits on record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Trade deficits are a negative for GDP, but they rarely have any immediate impact on ordinary consumers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
The board’s vote “has made certain the District’s structural deficits continue.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Most of Wales and Northern Ireland have also had rainfall deficits, although parts of western Scotland have been wetter than average.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Giving himself repeated daily shots of canine insulin in the abdomen, arm, or leg, Woolf almost certainly spent his days boomeranging between insulin gluts and deficits.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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