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miércoles, 12 de septiembre de 2018

FEAR to not knowing what's going on

“With a booming economy, full employment, a soaring stock market and record asset values, we should be shrinking the deficit, not growing it,” Mitt Romney, a Republican and Senate candidate in Utah, wrote on his campaign website Monday. He said other conservatives have largely been “silent” on the issue since President Trump took office.

Colbert To Bob Woodward: What Do You Fear Most?



"Fear: Trump in the White House" is a new book by American journalist Bob Woodward about the presidency of Donald Trump. The book was released on September 11, 2018. Woodward based the book on hundreds of hours of interviews with members of the Trump administration.  According to the book, aides of Donald Trump took papers off of his desk to prevent him from signing them. 

It will be a book that must be read for the good reputation of the Author, because of the comments in social media from all over the world, what most impressed me so far was the part of the American economy and the deficit.

The deficit in the U.S. is projected to reach 4.2 percent of Gross Domestic Product this year, up from 2.5 percent in 2015. The economy is expected to grow by about 3 percent this year, a higher level than in past years, but still not as fast as the deficit. And the deficit has not been this large with an unemployment rate this low in modern history, according to White House data. 


The government has $21.5 trillion in debt, up from $12.8 trillion in 2010, when a fiscal commission led by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles sought ways to reduce the deficit.

The U.S. budget deficit is reaching levels that are abnormally high for a robust economy, and lawmakers from both parties are proposing ideas that would make the deficit swell even further.

The government spent $895 billion more than it brought in from taxes and other revenue sources during the past 11 months, the Congressional Budget Office said this week, a 33 percent increase from one year before.

When asked about the deficit by his former National Economic Council director, Gary Cohn, Trump replied, “Just run the presses — print money,” according to Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear.” 

If you are not american, what scares you most about the President of your country? It seems that debt management and deficit are a widespread problem in all countries of the world.


Costa Rica recorded a government debt equivalent to 65.10 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2017. Government Debt to GDP in Costa Rica averaged 54.68 percent from 1991 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 69.66 percent in 1991 and a record low of 38.04 percent in 2008.

Generally, Government debt as a percent of GDP is used by investors to measure a country ability to make future payments on its debt, thus affecting the country borrowing costs and government bond yields. Costa Rica Government Debt To Gdp - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on September of 2018. 


Latin America Case, to put in context Costa Rica Government debt.

Spain even worse, recorded a government debt equivalent to 98.30 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2017. Government Debt to GDP in Spain averaged 54.53 percent from 1980 until 2017, reaching an all time high of 100.40 percent in 2014 and a record low of 16.60 percent in 1980.



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