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Current Events => Economics => Topic started by: thundley4 on April 11, 2009, 10:52:20 AM
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Treasury Department said Friday that the budget deficit increased by $192.3 billion in March, and is near $1 trillion just halfway through the budget year, as costs of the financial bailout and recession mount.
Last month's deficit, a record for March, was significantly higher than the $150 billion that economists expected.
The deficit already totals $956.8 billion for the first six months of the budget year, also a record for that period. The Obama administration projects the deficit for the entire year will hit $1.75 trillion.
A deficit at that level would nearly quadruple the previous annual record of $454.8 billion set last year. The March deficit was nearly four times the size of the imbalance in the same month last year.
Nearly $300 billion provided to the nation's banks and other companies to cope with the most severe financial crisis in seven decades has pushed government spending higher.
Link (http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090410/D97FPQ380.html)
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Like all bad news, this was released on a Friday, Good Friday, no less. This should have been big news, but it won't be a blip on the radar come Monday.