Last year marked a big change in the pattern of deficit financing in Japan.
Can Japan find a way out of the current unsustainable government deficit financing to support the welfare state?
Indeed, some of the most stubborn resistance to deficit financing has come from Europe, particularly from Germany and the EU finance ministers.
Also, the government should not be destroying what capital is created by deficit financing, which usually results in consumption at best, and, more often, total waste.
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The only thing that really counts for the EU on the finance front is staving off a bank-induced meltdown 2.0, and their upcoming funding windows for national deficit financing.
In most of these situations, the war ended quickly, spending was reduced, deficits disappeared, and the Treasury no longer had to print money or pressure the Fed to help with deficit financing.
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Heavy government spending, whether through revenue collection or deficit financing means less capital for the companies that employ us, enhance our lives, and that we own as direct shareholders or through mutual funds and pension funds.
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Unfortunately, such tax cuts would have to be financed by issuing lots of government deficit-financing bonds.
Mr Noda, who has been under pressure to call elections for months, agreed on Wednesday to do so after the opposition said it would back him on electoral reform and a deficit-financing bill.
The upshot is that the U.S. external financing deficit may actually grow at just the same time as China's ability and appetite to fund it evaporates.
The nature of the capital inflows financing a deficit also matters.
However, the government has little option but to focus on financing the deficit because reducing it will take time, Raghuram Rajan said at an event in the western Indian city of Pune.
This has substantially eased the burden on taxpayers of financing the budget deficit.
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Besides financing the trade deficit, these capital inflows have also supported the dollar which, between April 1995 and late 1998, strengthened by 50% against the yen.
Even with our higher deficit, Britain's total financing need will be well under 16% per cent of GDP.
In fact, I think quite a few of those who talk about "pure money financing" of the deficit are really talking about a fiscal stimulus.
Mr Darling may succeed in appealing to Labour's core voters but the government risks exhausting the tolerance of the investors who are financing Britain's big deficit.
And it will destroy living standards in a country that has no means of financing a current-account deficit and so must eliminate it by shrinking domestic purchasing power.
The financing of America's deficit last year was also helped by the Homeland Investment Act, which allowed American firms a lower tax rate on profits repatriated from abroad.
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India is financing its current-account deficit with volatile foreign fund inflows into the capital markets rather than foreign direct investment, which is a matter of concern, Mr. Subbarao said at an event in Mumbai.
The higher cost of financing its debt will hit the government's deficit targets, another critical component of the disinflation programme.
Analysts give diverse reasons for the meltdown, most pointing to the current account deficit fueled by numerous infrastructure mega-projects that rely on external financing in U.S. dollars.
Ukraine's budget deficit stands at 12% of GDP and the country has no real way of financing it.
When, in the minds of the electorate, the congressional spending decision becomes separated from the financing decision, voters lose sight of the fact that the whole debt-limit issue arises due to deficit spending.
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