But that doesn’t change the fact that France’s problem is too much spending, not inadequate tax revenue. Especially over the long run. As noted in the chart, government spending now consumes 57 percent of Fra
in February 2016, the future president appeared on Fox News and assured viewers that, if he were president, he could start paying off the national debt "so easily." The Republican argued at the time that it would simply be a matter of looking at the country as "a profit-making c...
Also, BC, interesting graph. The Willshire 5000 Total Market Cap to GDP chart speaks to quite a bubble in equities prices. Matt YoungFebruary 9, 2014 at 11:18 pm I take total interest expense and divide by total debt. I iinclude the free interest on debt held by the Fed since that i...
President Bush created a twin deficit and significantly deteriorated the fiscal position of the country (as one can see in the chart below), which erased the investors’ faith in the U.S. dollar and triggered a rally in gold, confirming that it may be a hedge against fiscal deficits....
(which are increasingly distorted by interest payments being excluded from GDP), and the application of vector auto-regression modelling. You can prove anything with these incomplete statistics but the truth. The chart above clearly illustrates a common trend for these deficits and with some highly ...
President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan. The national budget deficit will, according to the author grow to over $7 trillion because of all of the money that Obama wants to borrow. A chart is presented that compares this debt to the national e...
First thing of note, the OAS, DI, HI, SMI Trust Funds all are treated separately. Second note interest on those Trust Funds ARE counted as Public Debt, the $2.203 trillion shown as OAS debt in the chart above equating exactly to the year end balance and assets respectively in the followi...
Chinese exports in 2014 for the 10 largest high-technology industries (see chart below) were $1,135 billion, 48% larger than the $769 billion of U.S. exports, and while China had a $322 billion surplus in these industries, the United States was in deficit by $290 billion. ...
A chart shows details of the i-Ride budget for the two years of the City of Sarasota contract. Image courtesy City of Sarasota The total projected subsidy the City Commission agreed to provide Gotcha was $338,747.50. The ...
Debt is accrued by borrowing money based on the deficit. The debt is held by the public as Federal Debt, and our country has to pay interest on that debt. A little debt is good, debt at projected levels seen below is really bad. Also look below at the chart to see which Presidents ...