With a modestly positive economic environment, high profit margins, improving private investment, high budget deficits and a belief that stocks are cheap….the bulls get increasingly optimistic.  This is from Goldman’s Chief Equity S

Despite poor progress on reducing big deficits and debt, the yields on US and UK government bonds fell and their currencies appreciated. But price moves in markets now show a different story

The group says pension deficits are at risk of rising because of low interest rates and a change allowing companies to pay less into underfunded schemes

WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Monday said the United States was getting carried away with a government austerity drive, offering some of the institution's bluntest...

Move follows worries the market will turn and send deficits spiralling, putting question marks over the ability of some schemes to pay retirees

Since the economic crisis of 2009, the most incorrect call that people have made has been to call for inflation or hyperinflation due to aggressive monetary easing and/or large government deficits. In a recent blog post, the pseudonymous hedge fund m

WASHINGTON -- Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst says President Barack Obama's budget would trim projected federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the coming decade. The Congressional...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Near-term U.S. deficits under President Barack Obama's 2014 budget plan would be higher than those forecast by the Congressional Budget Office this week but would be $1.1 trillion lower over the coming decade, CBO said on Frida

WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - Near-term U.S. deficits under President Barack Obama's 2014 budget plan would be higher than those forecast by the Congressional Budget Office this week but would be...

WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - Near-term U.S. deficits under President Barack Obama's latest budget plan would be higher than the most recent estimates by the Congressional Budget Office, but $1.1...

The new CBO budget projections showing debt stabilization over the next decade and a reduction of the expected FY 2013 deficit to $642 billion hasn't been deemed by Washington as a "scandal," although falling deficits amid high unemployment and below

In a provocative new book, a former Wall Street CEO and Treasury official argues that the U.S. shouldn't worry about the ballooning national debt. This reviewer respectfully disagrees.

New Zealand unveiled a budget that will reverse years of deficits and bring government debt down, against a backdrop of moderately improving economic growth.

Rating agency lifts its assessment, fuelling a rally, and highlights the country’s ‘clear progress’ towards fixing its budget and trade deficits

For some reason, Karl Rove seems to like Josh Barro's post arguing that we shouldn't be trying to cut deficits now.

LONDON (Reuters) - Debt may be everywhere but there's a scarcity of bonds. With governments awash with debt and furiously selling new securities to fund bloated budget deficits, the idea of a bond shortage on the marketplace may sound puzzling. Yet n

Rating agency acknowledges progress towards eliminating its budget and current account deficits and signs of an economic stabilisation

Annual deficits are falling even faster than the Congressional Budget Office predicted back in February. And the country's total debt is set to fall as share of the economy for a few years.

NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - Fitch Ratings on Tuesday upgraded its sovereign credit rating for Greece to B-minus from CCC citing a rebalancing of the economy and progress in eliminating its fiscal and current account deficits that have reduced its ri

LONDON, May 13 (Reuters) - Pension schemes run by some of Britain's biggest companies are sitting on a cumulative funding gap of more than 100 billion pounds ($153 billion), as low bond yields crimp...

 

Contrary to popular belief, Republicans don’t hate budget deficits. On the contrary, they love them. When they occur on the Democrats’ watch, they provide Republicans with endless talking points on how they are bankrupting the country and

The U.S. economy would be doing a lot better without all the drama about budget deficits, says Ian Shepherdson, chief economist for Pantheon Macroeconomic Advisors and the winner of the Forecaster of the Month.

U.S. taxpayers will soon reap a nearly $67 billion benefit from the recovering housing market, which will help to shrink deficits and delay the need to raise the country's debt ceiling.

After two years of stalemate on how to spur job creation and slash deficits, the consensus is that fiscal tightening has been a drag on economic recovery.    

Original paper was widely cited as an argument for fiscal austerity in 2010 and the fight over their figures has become a proxy for broader battles about deficits

Clearest signal yet to trustees of defined benefit schemes to take a more lenient approach with companies struggling to plug their deficits

John Boehner knows the government has run budget deficits for 55 of the last 60 years, but somehow doesn't realize that shows that deficits are sustainable.

Crowding Out Watch, ContinuedThe end of the semester has arrived, and as I prepared my last lecture, I checked to see how the government deficits had impacted yields. Real yields were pretty much as they were when the semester began in January.]]>Fig

Once again, Karl Rove/GW Bush attempted to turn the clock back to the beginning of the 19th century, and we are now living with the consequences--wars and budget deficits without end. It's hard to see what form a new nationalism will take, until

In this far-reaching documentary, we are first treated to a history lesson from the early 80s to the present day - a story of lust, debt, and largesse; from Reagan deficits to cell phones to day trading to real estate... and then 2008 is explained (a

Tim Duy: When Deficits Become a Problem, by Tim Duy: L. Randall Wray (ht FTAlphaville) thinks that Paul Krugman has made the leap to MMT by acknowledging the ability of the central bank to control interest rates. Wray sees that...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The euro zone economy will contract by more than expected this year and budget deficits will decline more slowly, the European Commission said on Friday as it set out forecasts for the next two years.

The euro zone economy will contract by more than expected this year and budget deficits will decline more slowly, the European Commission said on Friday as it set out forecasts for the next two years.

BRUSSELS, May 3 (Reuters) - The euro zone economy will contract by more than expected this year and budget deficits will decline more slowly, the European Commission said on Friday as it set out...

Japan is stuck in a shrinking population trap, and neither monetary nor fiscal policy will adequately solve the problem. Continuing to run fiscal deficits in a deflationary environment will only means that government debt is pushed onward and upwards

The ECB president said euro area countries had succeeded in cutting deficits in the past two years but average debt had risen to 90.6 per cent in 2012

VANCOUVER, Canada (Bullions Bull Canada) -- As massive supply-deficits and vanishing inventories lead to greater and greater stress in our totally corrupted precious metals markets, these dynamics push us toward one of two potential "implosion" event

By fixing annual budget deficits, Europe is shooting itself in the foot: while it does, of course, authorize lower budget deficits during good years, it makes it impossible to allow further budgetary deficits when the economy is in recession. Europe

With GDP forecast to grow by a mere 1.6 per cent this year, our governments (both provincial and federal) need consumers to keep on spending to prop up the economy. They need this while they, themselves, are struggling with ballooning deficits and de

Governments in central and eastern Europe should stick to their plans to reduce their budget deficits, but do their utmost to maintain growth-promoting spending on infrastructure, the head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said

Doug BandowUncle Sam is broke. After running up $5 trillion in deficits over the last four years, Washington is borrowing another $845 billion this year. And assuming Congress neither adds expensive new programs nor expands expensive old ones, the fe

Spain's budget deficits are out of control, home prices are still falling, GDP is down 2% annualized in the first quarter, production is down, the unemployment rate soared a full percentage point to 27.16%, and a record 6.2 million are out of work.He

Most of us accept that the earth goes around the sun. This is impressive since we can look up in the sky and see the...

An austerity push in Europe helped to reduce government budget deficits in 2012 for a fourth straight year, but debt burdens grew, the European statistics agency reported.    

The world remains transfixed in the belief that the Federal Reserve can 'prime' the economic pump one more time via monetizing trillion-dollar deficits ad nauseum, inflate its balance sheet to unprecedented levels, and still successfully exit from th

Commission chief still believes in need for drastic cuts in deficits, but such policies need to have ‘acceptance, politically and socially’

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The economy is not doing well. Unemployment is too high and big deficits threaten the credit worthiness of the federal government. Only genuine tax reform will make things right. With 46% of Americans paying no income taxes an

Deficits are falling. A lot.

"Tough Slog" or "The Unimaginable" Gross: The world looks 4 a new Keynes but w/ hi deficits & 0% rates there is only a long tough slog ahead @ best & the unimaginable @ worst. — PIMCO (@PIMCO) April 21, 2013