Even so, his projections showed the current budget moving from deficit into surplus in 2009-10, allowing the rule to be met over the new economic cycle (see chart).

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FORBES

Two years into this recovery we are quickly approaching the point in the cycle where we might expect a new cyclical contraction in economic activity.

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