US economy
Revision as of 15:29, 30 September 2006 by Woozle (talk | contribs) (→Reference: history of public debt)
Overview
This page is a portal for articles and information about various aspects of the United States economy, including:
- The various ways in which the governments allocates and spends money and incurs debt
- US Presidential administration budgets
- US military spending
- What is the difference between "public debt", "federal debt", and "budget deficit"?
- Various economic indicators
- Certain kinds of unavoidable expenses which can be improved or worsened by government regulation
- Anything else that seems related
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Reference
- The Debt To the Penny (currently $8 trillion) from the Bureau of the Public Debt
- graph of the US budget deficit/surplus, 1961-present
- Wikipedia: History of the U.S. public debt
News
- 2006-03-03 Current Budget Projections (Congressional Budget Office): HTML PDF
- 2005-10-14 US budget deficit shrinks in 2005: "Despite falling from 2004's record $412bn figure, the federal deficit for the fiscal year ending last month was still the third highest on record."
- 2004-12 The US Budget Deficit: On an Unsustainable Path (most of article is in PDF form)
- 2004-10-14 U.S. budget deficit expands to $412.5 billion
- 2004-02-02 Does the US budget deficit matter? (analysis by Steve Schifferes, BBC News Online economics reporter)