Most of the French and German capital deficit should be remediable through selling shares to investors or selling non-core assets, without recourse to taxpayers.

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Just as during the Carter years, during the Bush years productive businesses suffered a capital deficit as money flowed into the dead money sector that is housing.

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It is based on the fact that the sum of the budget deficit, the capital inflow to finance the trade deficit, and the difference between domestic saving and domestic investment equals zero.

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