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The Shrinking Deficit and Our Shrinking Economy — Stephanie Kelton

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I thought I was done writing for today, but I just stumbled across this post, and it got under my skin. It’s probably behind a paywall for many of you, so I’ll just quickly summarize.The US Treasury Department has reported that “for the first ten months of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, the deficit was 6 billion, down sharply from .5 trillion in the same period last year. That’s a record .8 trillion narrowing.” …The LensThe Shrinking Deficit and Our Shrinking EconomyStephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie

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I thought I was done writing for today, but I just stumbled across this post, and it got under my skin. It’s probably behind a paywall for many of you, so I’ll just quickly summarize.

The US Treasury Department has reported that “for the first ten months of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, the deficit was $726 billion, down sharply from $2.5 trillion in the same period last year. That’s a record $1.8 trillion narrowing.” …

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The Shrinking Deficit and Our Shrinking Economy
Stephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders
https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/the-shrinking-deficit-and-our-shrinking
Mike Norman
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