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Obama seems to have conveniently forgotten that his first term budgets repeatedly estimated growth above 4% for the next several years.
Much of the report is of course devoted to traditional aspects of national security: military budgets, alliances, and dealing with countries like Russia and China, which the new NSS calls “strategic competitors” (rather than adversaries).
The first problem is that European NATO consists of 16 separate countries, 16 separate defense budgets, and 16 separate defense forces.
The University of Louvain economist Frédéric Docquier and his colleagues have been researching the economic impact that immigrants from developing countries have on host-country budgets, wages, and consumer markets.
Spending is temporarily reduced and taxes raised, but the long-run structural deficit remains, a pattern now repeated in many state capitals and the primary reason for the current political turmoil over budgets and public sector unions.
Moreover, contributions from national budgets constitute the vast majority of revenues.
Payments to farmers to keep them out of poverty should be shifted onto national budgets.
The receipts for all purchases subject to VAT would show the amount paid to the EU, making citizens aware of their contribution, which would be transferred automatically to Union accounts and would no longer be shown on national budgets.
Decisions concerning both the multi-year framework and annual budgets should be taken by majority voting in the Council and Parliament, based on a formal proposal by the Commission, leaving decisions about the overall resource ceiling to the Council of Ministers and member states.
And Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to postpone a risky consumption-tax hike planned for next year, while also announcing supplementary budgets to increase spending and boost the household sector’s purchasing power.
NGO's vary enormously in their organization, budgets, accountability, and sense of responsibility for the accuracy of their claims.
Governments can do this consistently with a medium-term deficit-reduction plan by making a crucial distinction between their budgets’ current and capital accounts.
This lack of progress is truly remarkable, given that Iraq’s annual budgets for the last five years have totaled nearly $500 billion.
While financial contagion today is limited to bank interaction, the EU’s measures have broadened the channels for contagion to include government budgets.
But at least a country's fiscal actions should not be hidden in its budgets' obscure methodological footnotes.
At first, the Commission dutifully rejected the two budgets as incompatible with the rules of the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact (SGP).
Within days, both countries offered mini-adjustments to their budgets, worth about 0.2% of GDP, and their finance ministers wrote to the Commission that their budgets should now be approved.
The approach suggested here would cost more than EU member states can afford out of current budgets.
Economic freedoms that transformed Russia for good and ill brought despair to laboratories and research institutes as budgets were slashed and bright young scientists fled abroad while others (most famously the mathematician turned oligarch Boris Berezovsky) moved into banking and other businesses.
Of course, governments can slash their expenditure and increase taxes to balance their budgets, or at least to embark on a path leading in that direction, as the hotly debated example of Greece has shown.
Today, some 800 million people spend at least 10% of their household budgets on health, often going into debt to fund the treatment they need.
First, they required fiscal discipline in the member states, which was true under the gold standard, with its informal norm of balanced budgets.
If we can balance our household budgets, they ask irately, why can’t our political leaders?
Many developed countries are also failing to invest in high-return assets, but for a different reason: Their tight budgets and rising debts are preventing them from investing much at all.
But old and unresolved rivalries within Asia are finding new expression as political ambitions and military budgets expand.
Or will it accelerate as the housing sector rebounds, bank lending expands, household balance sheets improve, and state and local government budgets strengthen?
In the long run, governments should run balanced budgets, with surpluses in good years making up for deficits in bad years.
“Austerians” believe that only balancing government budgets and shrinking national debts will restore investor confidence.
But, as James Kwak and I explained in our book on US fiscal policy, White House Burning, the time when the Republican right favored responsible budgets and financial stability has long since passed.
Decades of control over education and culture budgets have produced a formidable clerisy, including legions of political apparatchiks, civil servants, writers, academics, teachers, NGO workers, journalists, and TV producers, among many others.
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