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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Ten-Year Deficit Now Projected at $9 Trillion


“The nation’s fiscal outlook is even bleaker than the government forecast earlier this year because the recession turned out to be deeper than widely expected, the budget offices of the White House and Congress agreed in separate updates on Tuesday.” (New York Times, Wednesday)

It could be worse. Just wait for the next estimate.

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  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.