- The Disappearing Dollar: How Long Can It Remain The World's Most Important Reserve Currency? (December 2, 2004)
...pant government borrowing, furious consumer spending and a current-account deficit big enough to have bankrupted any other country some time ago. This makes... - Nobel Laureate in Economics Calls US Budget 'A Form of Looting' (August 3, 2003)
...rofessor Akerlof, according to recent official projections, the US federal deficit will reach $455 billion this fiscal year. That's the largest ever in dolla... - Hitting the Trifecta (December 7, 2001)
...t the budget outside Social Security, but the whole enchilada — will be in deficit through 2004. Since the administration's phony budget math ("fuzzy" just d... - Why There Can Be No Alternative To The US Dollar (December 8, 2004)
...doubt in the early 1960s when the US started to have a noticeable payments deficit. The Federal Reserve tried to allay this problem by holding up short-term... - Half-Trillion Dollar Deficit Still Not Enough to Fund Iraq (September 8, 2003)
...id President Bush's emergency spending request — which would push the U.S. deficit above the half-trillion-dollar mark for the first time — still leaves a re... - France's Socialists Beat Ruling Coalition in Regional Elections (March 28, 2004)
...lso suffered an election defeat in 1997 for his measures to cut the public deficit and permit France to qualify to share the euro. First Test The... - Iraq Attack Could Crash US Economy (August 11, 2002)
... this month the CBO announced that it now expected the government to run a deficit of $153 billion. Any invasion would add tens of billions of dollars to... - CBS Censors MoveOn.org (January 22, 2004)
...eed address an issue of public importance: the rapid growth of the federal deficit. But as advocacy ads go, this ad is not particularly controversial. The ad... - The Profits and Pitfalls of War in Iraq (September 24, 2002)
... the bureaucracy of Saudi Arabia is so bloated that the country falls into deficit whenever oil prices dip below $25 per barrel — even though Saudi oil... - Bush-Musharraf Partnership Reconfirmed (December 6, 2004)
...mports tended to nullify the export gains. From July to November the trade deficit grew four times over, mainly because of the hike in the price of oil. This... - Dizzying Dive to Red Ink Poses Stark Choices for Washington (September 14, 2003)
...d many in Washington, will be added to what was already the largest budget deficit the nation has ever known. With a force that has surprised even critic... - Pills vs. Talking (June 7, 2004)
...ly experiencing serious side effects from Ritalin prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, he decided to take the boy off the medication. Now... - Southern Nations Demand More Power in IMF, World Bank (April 24, 2004)
...alition of developing countries also complained loudly about the democracy deficit at the two institutions. WASHINGTON - As several thousand people p... - UN May Cut Back Gaza Work Because of Israeli Restrictions (March 27, 2004)
... on international donors and the Palestinian Authority is running a budget deficit of US$30-40 million a month.... - US Risks Downhill Dollar Disaster (November 22, 2004)
...us. "It seems persuasive that, given the size of the US current account deficit, a diminished appetite for adding to dollar balances must occur at some po... - Afghan Jihadi Leader Hekmatyar Says Iran Not Telling Truth About Bank Account (December 22, 2004)
... They cannot endure such losses for a long time. This year America's trade deficit was more than 600 billion dollars, against the euro the dollar fell by 35... - War Estimate Approaching $100b, for Starters (March 14, 2003)
...n some Bush loyalists sticker shock, especially because the federal budget deficit is expected to top $300 billion in the current fiscal year. In view of tha... - This Memo Must Not Be Leaked (October 25, 2003)
...Rivlin, which offered a written "catalog" of ideas for reducing the budget deficit by tax increases and Social Security cuts. This week, the Democrats pou... - A New Questioning of the War (June 30, 2002)
...is not the war, but the Bush tax cut, that has pushed the budget back into deficit. The exchange brought vividly into focus for me a realization that was... - Iraq: The Moon Is Down, Again! (April 23, 2004)
...that with all of the retaliatory killing, “we have a staggering legitimacy deficit.” I wonder if legitimacy is something you can have in gradations as he sug... - Kill Missile Defense Now (December 20, 2004)
... administration should take advantage of that to reduce the yawning budget deficit by killing the grotesquely wasteful missile defense programs.... - How Teddy Roosevelt Fathered the “Bush Doctrine” (December 10, 2004)
...merging economic crisis facing this country. Last month alone, the federal deficit reached $55 billion and the U.S. Congress approved a new national debt lev... - Is 'Groupthink' Driving Us to War? (September 16, 2002)
...f American casualties not seen since the Vietnam War? How an oil shock and deficit spending for war would plunge the United States and world economies into a... - When is Enough Enough? (August 23, 2003)
...ed that the cost of maintaining troops in Iraq will lead to a large budget deficit and seriously hurt the U.S. economy. And 60 percent of those polled say th... - Administration Shifts Rhetoric On Goals in Iraq (August 1, 2003)
...o see a transformation of the Middle East and an addressing of the freedom deficit. It's a long-term project, but I think it would be a mistake to think that... - New Goals in War Zones: Streamlining (October 7, 2003)
...$20 billion to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure while the expanding US budget deficit curtails spending on projects at home. The spending request, larger than w... - A Kind of Fascism is Replacing Our Democracy (July 18, 2003)
...of isolationism, skeptical of foreign adventures and viscerally opposed to deficit spending, to a party zealous for foreign wars. From a party skeptical o... - US Seeks New Afghan Aid Amid Criticism of Reconstruction (July 27, 2003)
... from existing foreign and military aid accounts so as not to increase the deficit — would go toward highway and school construction, other infrastructure in... - Bush Aides Admit Serious Mistakes on Iraq (September 9, 2003)
...stration officials said that the $87 billion request would not prevent the deficit from being cut in half over the next five years and that there are no plan... - Los Angeles Adopts Resolution Opposing Invasion of Iraq (February 22, 2003)
...s. "Certainly war in Iraq will have municipal consequences. There's a huge deficit at the national and state level, and you're talking about $200 billion to... - October Surprises (October 3, 2002)
...ion war on Iraq will save them (war, after all, can produce some healthful deficit spending) or just plunge them into the mother of all messes. It could be t... - Al-Qa'ida's Abu-Muhammad al-Ablaj on Bin Ladin, Weapons, US Targets (September 21, 2003)
...result of their employees' depression and the foreign wars, which caused a deficit and tax increases for the American people, whom he said would not dream of... - Iraq: The Doubters Grow (August 15, 2002)
...sharp rise in oil prices, another decline in air travel, a bulging federal deficit, a drop in consumer confidence and other negative economic effects that ca... - Officials Debate Whether to Seek a Bigger Military (July 21, 2003)
...st to expand the military's personnel roster, even with the growing budget deficit. "I was much more comfortable with end-strength during the cold war th... - Costs of War in Iraq, Afghanistan Approach Levels of Vietnam (September 7, 2003)
...ffice estimated recently that the government next year would have a record deficit of $480 billion. Michael O'Hanlon, a national security analyst at the... - Transfer the Administration of Iraq to the UN (July 31, 2003)
...unding for badly needed social services at home, as well as tax relief and deficit reduction. 3. The United Nations could succeed in such an effort. ... - Osama Rallies Muslims, Condemns Hussein (February 12, 2003)
...the glaringly obvious truth in this matter? He is already suffering from a deficit of credibility in the aftermath of the plagiarism scandal that is currentl... - Climate Change a National Security Threat (January 26, 2004)
...like? Scientists generally refuse to say much about that, citing a data deficit. But recently, renowned Department of Defense planner Andrew Marshall spon... - Armed to the Teeth (February 10, 2002)
...spending. The new defence expenditure will be paid for by a freshly dug deficit and cuts to every other federal spending programme — including social secu... - Oiling Up the Draft Machine? (November 3, 2003)
...'s not clear that works -- and besides, there's already an enormous budget deficit. They can try to bribe other countries to contribute more troops, which th... - A Bigger, Looser EU? (November 1, 2003)
...d to hold leaders to account. Most people agree that there is a democratic deficit in Europe, but they say, time will deal with it. Time might deal with it,... - A Bigger - Looser EU? (November 1, 2003)
...d to hold leaders to account. Most people agree that there is a democratic deficit in Europe, but they say, time will deal with it. Time might deal with it,... - The Currency War (January 26, 2003)
...re'd surely be a run on the banks much like the 1930s, the current account deficit would become unserviceable, the budget deficit would go into default, and... - India Doubting its US 'Strategic Partnership' (March 27, 2004)
...y bills or the dollar-denominated US securities. The US is running a trade deficit of $500 billion a year. The strength of the US and the dollar exists only... - Anyone But Bush (July 19, 2003)
... the circular firing squad, including on domestic issues. Some would be deficit hawks, some would want socialized medicine. It would have to include peopl... - Mr. Bush & the Divine (November 6, 2003)
...ican consultant Mary Matalin would later say, by way of placing this focus deficit in the correct light, on a PBS Frontline documentary about the 2000 ca... - Beyond Fallujah: A Year With The Iraqi Resistance (June 1, 2004)
...model made by a company called General Steel. By the afternoon the calorie deficit had made us dozy, and we lounged around his unfinished diwan. The walls we...
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