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Harlan Green: Don't Confuse the Federal Deficits

By Harlan Green Aug 24th 2011 - 08:26PM

Why the confusion over the federal budget deficit numbers?

Background on federal deficit

The United States public debt is the money borrowed by the federal government of the United States at any one time through the issue of securities by the Treasury and other federal government agencies.

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