#Spending

Tom Newton Dunn

tnewtondunn

New: Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has won his titanic battle with the Chancellor to secure an above inflation rise for the MoD's budget. This, despite defence being seen as a

Chad Moutray

chadmoutray

Personal consumption expenditures declined 0.2% in December, pulling back for the second straight month. Durable and nondurable goods purchases fell 1.0% and 0.7% in December, respectively, with service-sector spending edging

Arthur Atkinson 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈

ArthurAtkinson0

The CBC has a lovely series called "the big spend". While I applaud asking questions about government transparency and accounting for monies spent, it's really disingenuous to imply that much-needed

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

Just consider what the Left is asking moderates to accept, in order to get rid of Trump (which many of us are willing to do):Vote Biden.Get rid of the filibuster.No

Ben Eisen

benkerteisen

Two meaningful (more or less) nation-wide fiscal consolidations in my lifetime -a big one in the early 1990s and a smaller one in the 2010s. Both were achieved almost entirely

NWO Archive

NwoArchive

Catherine Austin Fitts is an American investment banker and former public official. She has widely written and commented on the subject of public spending and has alleged several large scale

Owen Barder

owenbarder

"the Prime Minister asked me to identify the changes needed to ensure we meet, but do not exceed the 0.7% commitment." What kind of people are we that we

Rep. Alan Lowenthal

RepLowenthal

I am a cosponsor of legislation to provide monthly $2,000 checks to families for the duration of this crisis, and I strongly support increasing the payments by unanimous consent this

ilona burton

ilonacatherine

While CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) is trending - a few facts:- CAMHS accounts for just 0.7% of NHS spending, and around 6.4% of mental health spending- a

Douglas Fraser✒️🎥🎙

BBCDouglasF

>£100m a year in EU structural funds, directed through @scotgov, is going. Being replaced by Shared Prosperity Fund - details unclear, until yesterday, when @SteveBarclay wrote to @KateForbesMSP, saying it

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

While we tend to look at these issues as the consequence of micro-level decision-making, it is important to understand the macro constraints that drive the process. If Covid-19 has caused

Patrick Chovanec

prchovanec

US GDP shrank at an annualized q/q rate of -32.9% in Q2, much as expected. This equates to an actual -9.5% q/q decline from Q1 to Q2, and a -9.5%

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

Perhaps it's unsurprising that a billionaire has no interest in structural and political change. But @BillGates's belief that he can save the planet with technologies alone, while dissing popular movements

AnnElizabeth Konkel

AE_Konkel

Personal income and outlays release today! Gov’t transfers are playing a key role in propping up the economy. Without them, personal income would be below its pre-COVID era levels. 1/

Brian Chang

CrusoeEconomics

1/ Looking at the relationship between the BoC and the GoC with respect to debt "funding" has shown some pretty interesting results. The following graphs shows the percentage of interest

Peter Ganong

p_ganong

About 9 million people are set to exhaust unemployment benefits at the end of this year. What happens to spending at exhaustion?tldr: 1) people don’t prepare for exhaustion 2) cut

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