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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Subject: Re: Deficit
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:05:49 GMT
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- In article <mlbruce.727596260@husc.harvard.edu> mlbruce@husc11.harvard.edu (Matthew Bruce) writes:
- >cstone@husc8.harvard.edu (christopher stone) writes:
- >>Two comments:
- >
- >>1) I believe that the deficit *as a percentage of GNP* is not much
- >>larger than it was in earlier decades.
- >
- >As percent of GNP, from what I've read it stayed pretty level under
- >Reagan, but under Bush (esp. after the 1990 package) it skyrocketed as
- >percent of GNP. Still, as this is fact not opinion in question, we'd just
- >have to "look it up."
-
- Deficit as percent of GNP doesn't tell us enough -- I wouldn't mind
- a high percentage, just so long as the economy is growing faster than
- the debt. I'm going to use debt/GNP rather than deficit/GNP.
-
- As percent of GNP, debt (rather than deficit) was steadily declining
- from Truman to Nixon, levelled under Nixon, stayed level until Reagan,
- and has been skyrocketing ever since.
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