Cyprus needs cash to bail out its banks and patch a government budget deficit.
The film, set in 1981, even features a contemporary clip of Ronald Reagan promising to reduce the government budget deficit.
The stimulus programs and bank bailouts, however, resulted in a government budget deficit of 5.3% of GDP in 2010 that contrasted sharply with a surplus of 0.7% in 2008.
The budget for the first three months was very tight: counting in only the items we really have financed, we had a central-government budget deficit of about 1.5% of GDP.
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Until then, piecemeal fixes by courts or legislatures would be like trying to fix a massive multiple generational government budget deficit by tweaking a little tax rate here, a spending program there.
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China controls our economy because we owe them so much money: It must be made clear that US debt to China has nothing to do with the federal government budget deficit and everything to do with the trade deficit.
It would be far easier for Italy to reduce its government budget deficit and trim its national debt, both required if it is to join in the single currency starting in 1999, without the constant pressure to transfer yet more resources to the south.
On July 30th, he unveiled a four-year plan to bring the government's budget deficit to heel.
The government's budget deficit (including the states') could exceed 11% of GDP this year.
The National Bank of Belgium expects the government's budget deficit to be 4.2% of gross domestic product this year.
In effect, almost all the British government's budget deficit this year has been funded by the Bank of England.
In the Netherlands, talks over measures to slash the Dutch government's budget deficit collapsed after seven weeks of negotiations.
This is startling at a time when the central government's budget deficit is ballooning following repeated and massive dollops of fiscal stimulus.
So Mr Batlle will be hard-pressed to fulfil pledges to boost social spending while keeping the government's budget deficit under control.
The government's budget deficit the gap between revenue and spending spiked during the economic downturn and now is shrinking, though it remains large by historic standards.
The economy will emerge from its troubles only when the government contains the budget deficit, says Cho Soon, a former governor of the central bank and now an opposition politician.
EU's governments gave in to demands by Italy's new finance minister, Giuliano Amato, to let the target for his government's budget deficit for 1999 edge up from 2% to 2.4%, conceding that he was being squeezed by high unemployment and a dull economy.
The Commission also said it expects the UK government's budget deficit - the amount by which its annual spending exceeds its income - to grow to 7.2% in 2013 from 6.2% this year, making it the highest in the EU apart from the Republic of Ireland.
On government prospects for cutting the budget deficit, Mr Cameron said the government was "on the right track".
Spanish 10-year government bond yields fell to the lowest level seen since late January, and the IBEX 35 stock index gained 0.3%, after Spain's budget minister, Cristobal Montoro, said there was no risk of the government's 2012 budget deficit surpassing 6.7% of gross domestic product.
Morgan expects even Singapore's government to run a budget deficit this year and next.
However, net negative government saving (the budget deficit) overwhelms the others and make total national saving negative.
Closer to home, Portugal's government announced that its budget deficit was 9.3% of GDP in 2009, higher than previous forecasts.
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The current stand-off has its roots in a failed 2011 attempt to tackle the government debt limit and budget deficit.
"We're dealing with feckless politicians wanting to extend a giveaway because of the optics, " despite the government's huge budget deficit, he said.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's government has slashed the budget deficit from 4% of gross domestic product three years ago to less than 1% now.
Growth is projected to reach 3% of GDP in 2011, says Kopint-Tarki, an economic research institute, and the government's budget-deficit target of 2.9% of GDP for 2011 is achievable.
Unemployment is now at a record 8.3%, the government has a record budget deficit and, four months ago, it was forced to increase taxes for the first time in 20 years.
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