letters in The Wall Street Journal Phil Gramm, stimulus, Reagan vs. Obama deficits, GDP growth,private sector investment The real measure of fiscal stimulus is the deficit as a percentage of GDP ...

The deficit-to-GDP percentage for the fiscal year prior, 2008, was 3.1 percent. This gives a sense of what Obama inherited -- but it’s not a perfectly useful number, either, ...

The U.S. government budget deficit will triple this year to $3.3 trillion, soaring to the largest percentage of gross domestic product since 1945, the Congressional Budget Office projected on ...

This shows the U.S. budget gap/surplus for the past two decades, as a percentage of GDP. The blue line is spending and the black line is tax receipts.

A deficit occurs when the outlays of a government exceed the inlays; a surplus is when revenues are higher than expenditure. This ratio is usually presented as a percent of gross domestic product (GDP ...

An Update to That Deficit Chart. By James Fallows. May 20, 2011. ... (or paying for any portions that policymakers decide to extend) would stabilize the debt-to-GDP ratio for the next decade.

Since 1980 the number of years with negative GDP growth jumps from 7 to 15, and the average GDP growth rate drops from 2.7% to an incredible MINUS 0.3%. Note especially that 2009 would have had a ...

T he budget deficit narrows to 6.9 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in December, down from the 7.7% recorded a month earlier, according to preliminary figures released by the Finance Ministry.

It ranks 15th on our list of countries with the largest budget deficit as a percentage of GDP. China had a budget deficit of 7.111% of its GDP in 2023. Moreover, it had a GDP of $17.70 trillion ...

And even if you keep unusually high percentages during the Obama years out of the calculation and limit the comparison to 1975 to 2008, the current level (a deficit that’s 2.4 percent of GDP) is ...

If Russia's budget deficit is at 1 percent of gross domestic product after 2019 that would be acceptable, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Monday.