Merrill: "The $1 trillion dollar budget deficit"

A few brief excerpts from a note by Merrill Lynch economists: The $1 trillion dollar budget deficit The latest developments in Washington imply that the budget deficit will continue to swell in the coming years. The bipartisan Senate agreement would boost spending cap levels for defense and non-defense programs over the next two years by roughly $300bn. As a first pass at estimating the impact on the deficit forecast, we think it would [bring] deficits to $825bn and $1,070bn. This will translate to one of the largest budget deficits during an expansion and, by far, the largest when the......(read more)

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