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In Then and Now: A Look Back and Ahead at the Federal Budget (NBER Working Paper 34455), Alan J. Auerbach and William Gale develop fiscal projections that incorporate the recently enacted One Big ...

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He argued deficit reduction reduces inflationary pressures on the economy. President Joe Biden on Wednesday said that the federal government will pay down the national debt this quarter for the first ...

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