deficit

The French budget deficit, projected to be 5.4% of GDP this year, is actually lower than the 6.1% of the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

So in the four years running up to the start of its debt crisis in 2009, Greece had an average current account deficit of more than 10% of annual economic output.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

He co-wrote a 2003 report with suggestions for closing California’s massive budget deficit after the dot-com bubble left the state reeling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

"We've got a sizeable deficit and obviously that's unsustainable in the long term," she told BBC News NI.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

She got so much blood that one doctor wrote a note in her record stopping all transfusions “until her deficit with the blood bank was made up.”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

We all know inflation is too high, the Fed has a difficult job and fiscal deficits aren’t disappearing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Governments across the developed world are running huge deficits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

“Inflation is too high, leading central banks to raise short-term rates, while budget deficits and debt are unsustainably high, leading bond investors to push up longer-term rates,” said Mike Fratantoni, chief economist at the MBA.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Rising fiscal deficits could make it harder for governments to meet their financial obligations and handle risks of the future.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

I began thinking about what would happen if we all just acknowledged our brokenness, if we owned up to our weaknesses, our deficits, our biases, our fears.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson