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Comment The higher cost of borrowing and the gradual erosion of confidence are two obvious signs the clouds that were on the horizon are now lurking overhead. As the economy wobbles, the bean-counters instinctively reach for the IT budget.
[18 Apr 2008]
whitepaper In many developing and transition economies that are rapidly decentralizing, hard budget constraints may require rules that restrain local borrowing in the short term. Indeed, they can facilitate it by promoting local revenue collection, improving...
[10 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The use of private versus public securities, the creation of personal accounts, the scheduling of future tax increases, and reliance on future borrowing by government are all means of financing that prescribe how resources would be drawn from the...
[07 Jul 2005]
whitepaper In the first option - a balanced budget rule - the government contemporaneously matches tax cuts with spending cuts; as a result, tax cuts require no new borrowing. In the second and third options, the government instead temporarily pays for tax...
[29 Jun 2005]
whitepaper In instances in which the bonds would be used as an alternative to federal appropriations as a source of funding, the cost to the federal government would be greater than it would be with financing through conventional borrowing by the Department...
[29 Jun 2005]
whitepaper Recent plans to replace part of Social Security with individual accounts would significantly increase federal borrowing for at least several decades. Over the next 10 years alone, various individual account proposals funded by borrowing would...
[20 May 2005]
whitepaper Treating federal borrowing for individual accounts differently from federal borrowing for other purposes would create a large loophole in longstanding budget rules that is unwarranted and inconsistent with other federal budgeting practice.
[20 May 2005]
whitepaper As a result, states cut spending, drew down their reserves, raised taxes and used one-time measures such as borrowing, federal fiscal relief and payment date shifts to close those gaps. Between fiscal year 2002 and fiscal year 2004, states faced...
[20 May 2005]
whitepaper By any of these measures, borrowing trillions of dollars and draining money from the Social Security trust fund would be worrisome. Analysts use a variety of measures to gauge the impact of Social Security reforms on Social Security solvency and...
[20 May 2005]
whitepaper To date, the tax cuts have been funded with increased borrowing. This postpones but does not eliminate the required payments. It can also create the misleading impression that tax cuts make almost everyone better off because the direct tax-cut...
[20 May 2005]
whitepaper Administration officials have been downplaying the significance of the $2 trillion in transition costs required by some individual accounts plans, by comparing that cost to the unfunded liability in Social Security over an infinite time horizon...
[20 May 2005]
whitepaper To date, all of the tax cuts enacted since 2001 have been financed by borrowing, which has contributed to higher deficits. But financial markets will not indefinitely tolerate large, persistent deficits of the type that the nation is projected to...
[20 May 2005]
whitepaper The plan rests on large-scale borrowing that would increase deficits and the national debt for decades. The Graham plan has serious shortcomings. It would result in deep cuts in Social Security benefits, yet do little or nothing to improve the...
[20 May 2005]
News The UK government will reduce borrowing by £2.2bn this year, after raising £22.5bn through its third generation mobile licence auction. A decision on how to spend the remaining £10.7bn has been postponed until November's pre-budget report.
[13 Jun 2000]
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