Long-Term Deficit Projections Worsen
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A recovery in corporate taxation has modestly improved the federal government's short-run deficit, but the long-term deficit has only grown worse during the past six months due to government spending, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said today.
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President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry have starkly different economic priorities with a common thread: price tags exceeding &#36;1 trillion that could pump already huge deficits skyward over the next decade.
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WASHINGTON - The Congressional Budget Office projected Tuesday that this election-year's federal deficit will hit a record $422 billion, a shortfall that would be smaller than analysts predicted earlier this year.    The estimate by Congress' nonpartisan budget experts immediately provided political fodder for both parties in the final two-month stretch of the presidential and congressional campaigns...
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Top forecasters cut their outlooks  for U.S. growth this year and next but said inflation seems to  be leveling off and consumer spending should strengthen in the  months ahead, a survey out on Friday showed.
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Experts have warned all year that a slowing U.S. economy and rising borrowing costs would lead to an increase in bad loans by homeowners and other borrowers.
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Surging corporate profits -- and another big increase in corporate tax collections -- will shrink the federal budget deficit to its smallest number in five years, according to new White House estimates, which show the deficit falling to $205 billion in the fiscal year that ends in September.
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The federal deficit will swell to a record &#36;422 billion this election year but fall short of even more dire forecasts, Congress' top budget analysts projected Tuesday in a report that became instant fodder for both political parties.
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The nation's budget deficit will drop to $205 billion in the fiscal year that ends in September, less than half of what it was at its peak in 2004
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The US budget deficit is set to hit a worse-than-expected $368bn this year, excluding war costs.
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Even though the Congressional Budget Office&#39;s (CBO) September baseline forecast reduced its projection of the 2004 federal budget deficit by more than $50 billion, it offered little hope that substantive progress would be achieved on the fiscal front any
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The U.S. budget deficit will balloon  to a cumulative $2.29 trillion over the next decade,  congressional analysts said on Tuesday, a worse outlook than  previously forecast and one likely to stir election-year debate  about President Bush's economic policies.
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Germany's budget deficit for 2004 is expected to be far lower than forecast and fall below the record of 40 billion euros (52 billion dollars), a finance ministry spokesman revealed.
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U.S. economic growth should lose steam in coming months, a research group said Thursday, indicating a clampdown on credit markets will continue to take its toll on the broader economy.
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For anyone who is worried about the economy, 2008 is off to a lousy start.
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The federal budget deficit will  balloon to $2.29 trillion over the next decade, a worse outlook  than previously forecast according to a new report by  congressional analysts, a congressional source with knowledge  of the numbers said on Tuesday.
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The White House will estimate on Wednesday that the U.S. budget deficit for fiscal year 2007 will come in at $205 billion, a drop from last year, a U.S. official said.
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After years of deterioration, the United States trade deficit appears to have finally peaked and started to decline.