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Decreased tax revenue and high spending resulted in an unusually large budget deficit of about $1.4 trillion, well above the $407 billion projected in the FY 2009 budget. [10] A 2009 CBO report indicated that $245 billion, about half of the excess spending, was a result of the 2008 TARP bailouts. Spending increases and tax credits resulting ...
The federal budget deficit has surged to an all-time high of $1.42 trillion as the recession caused tax revenues to plunge while the government was spending massive amounts to stabilize the ...
More good news for the U.S. economy, as the nation's budget deficit narrowed to $120.3 billion in November, the U.S. Treasury Department announced Thursday. A Bloomberg News economists survey had ...
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated that the budget deficit for fiscal year 2020 would increase to a record $3.8 trillion (~$4.41 trillion in 2023), or 18.7% GDP. [119] For scale, in 2009 the budget deficit reached 9.8% GDP ($1.4 trillion nominal dollars) in the depths of the Great Recession.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated that, partially as the result of the CARES Act, the budget deficit for fiscal year 2020 would increase to a record $3.8 trillion, or 18.7% GDP. [91] For scale, in 2009 the budget deficit reached 9.8% GDP ($1.4 trillion nominal dollars) in the depths of the Great Recession. CBO forecast in ...
The United States has just logged its biggest budget deficit year in history.The nation posted a $46.6 billion deficit for September, and a record $1.42 trillion deficit for the 2009 fiscal year ...
Put this one decidedly in the good news category: the Obama administration is expected to announce a $262 billion reduction in this year's budget deficit to $1.58 trillion. Earlier, the Obama ...
English: United States gross federal annual deficit or surplus as percentage of receipts from 1901 to 2006. Vertical scale shows surplus or deficit as percentage of receipts (negative means deficit), horizontal scale shows years. Black bars above the 0% line indicate a surplus that year. Black bars below the 0% line indicate a deficit that year.