Government Spending & Debt
Government spending is a key aspect of fiscal policy that is used to support either expansionary or contractionary economic goals.
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How the Federal Budget Process Works
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How Do the Fed's Open Market Operations Affect the U.S. Money Supply?
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What Is Fiscal Policy?
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Bailout Money Helps Failing Businesses and Countries
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Crowding Out Effect Definition
Explore Government Spending
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Transfer Payment
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Current vs. Capital Accounts: What's the Difference?
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What Is Economic Integration?
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A Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) Is Used to Benefit a Country's Economy
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US Government Financial Bailouts
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How Does the Government Spend My Taxes?
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Learn About Euro Medium Term Notes (EMTN)
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What Is a Public-Private Partnership?
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Balanced Budget
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What Is a Fiscal Deficit?
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What Are Open Market Operations (OMO)?
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How Much U.S. Debt Does China Own?
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Gross National Income (GNI)
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What Are Examples of Pork Barrel Politics in the United States?
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3 of the Biggest Land Deals in History
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Infrastructure Definition
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What role did securitization play in the global financial crisis?
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What Is the J-Curve Effect?
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How Governments Reduce the National Debt
Economic Efficiency Definition
What to Know About Consumer Protection Laws
Learn about Budget Surplus
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The Twin Deficits of the U.S.
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What the National Debt Means to You
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How Does Fiscal Policy Impact the Budget Deficit?
Sovereign Debt Definition
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Earmarking
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Business to Government (B2G) Definition
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What Is the Keynesian Multiplier?
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How Long Has the U.S. Run Fiscal Deficits?
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Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB)
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Fed Balance Sheet Definition
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Which U.S. Presidents Have Run the Largest Budget Deficits?
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Ricardian Equivalence Definition
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Deficit Spending
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Foreign Debt
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What Is Pork Barrel Politics?
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Municipal Assistance Corporation (MAC)
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Crowding-Out and Multiplier Effect Theories of Government Stimulus
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The Best and Worst Olympics Financial Planning
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How Interest Rate Cuts Affect Consumers
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TARP Bonuses
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What Is the Federal Budget?
25% Rule Definition
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What Is the U.S. Treasury Budget?
What Impact would Deflation have on the National Debt?
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Fiscal Drag
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What Are Government Purchases?
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Deflationary Spiral
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How Are Earmarks and Pork Barrel Spending Related?
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Sovereign Default
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International Finance Corporation (IFC)
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Financial Repression
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What Is a Special Revenue Fund?
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What, exactly, is consumer debt?
Fiscal Imbalance Definition
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National Savings Rate
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Where did the phrase "pork barrel" come from?
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What Is the Golden Rule of Government Spending?
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Net Borrower Definition