budget deficit
Example Sentences
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He worried, incorrectly as it turned out, that ultralow interest rates and high budget deficits in the years immediately after the financial crisis would lead to high inflation.
Takaichi is far from that point: markets calmed in the following days, and Japan's modest budget deficit allows it to absorb shocks.
From Barron's
“Coming out of COVID, we had very wide fiscal deficits,” but now, even after unemployment has been reduced, “budget deficits remain wide across the developed world.”
From MarketWatch
Leaders of the group said it would reduce the budget deficit by $1 trillion and could pass with a simple majority.
From Los Angeles Times
Rocked by an avalanche of growth-sapping shocks, countries around the world are tearing up savings plans and rolling out large fiscal stimulus packages financed by bumper budget deficits.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
