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    National debt, the accumulated debt of the federal government, has always been a major political issue for the government. The United States has always been in debt, in fact, we started out in debt. In 1977, The Continental Congress needed to borrow money to continue the Revolutionary War. As the years went by, and more presidents took office, the national debt increased. As of September 1, 2016, the United States national debt was listed to be $19.5 trillion. With all the national debt, the government

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    Government should cut public spending and use the money to fix the accumulative debt. In societal morality, people should always return things that do not belong to them back with the sense of gratitude. And only under this equitable principle does society be able to gain trusts and get organized. In the same way, a good country should always tries its best to pay back their debt in order to fulfill the social obligations (Eisentein 1). According to some reliable sources, U.S. national debt had for

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    The federal government’s debt is the total value of all outstanding government bonds and the accumulation of past deficits. Before the federal government had assumed the liabilities of CMHC which was $236,708 million dollars as of September 30, 2015 and the liabilities of commercial banks, growth in Canada’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) had been forecasted to be low due to continual fall in oil prices in the last six months which has lead to a significant depreciation in the value of the Canadian

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    Throughout the 21st century, there are multiple situations that arise. However, two of those current problems are, government debt, and education. Statistics show that regardless if it is United States, Federal, State of Local government, the total amount of debt America is in is $18,150,614,147,00. Some of the reasons behind the debt would relate to healthcare programs, social security programs, and defense budget expenses. "A total of 940 billion USA was allocated to healthcare benefit programs

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    Market on European Government Debt Problems 2.1. Bond Market The bond market is one of the fixed-income markets that it is deals in with transaction of long term fixed-income securities. Moreover, the bond is one of the financial instruments and then the financial instruments are generally regarded as securities. In the bond market, there are two bonds familiar to mass investors. One is called government bonds, and another one is called corporate bonds. Firstly, as its name, government bonds are issued

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    Another example shows expenses paid for any and all travel of government employees, whether it was business or personal. These concessions alone are even today costing the country nearly 800 million Euros a year. Since the old currency system was starting to fail, the Greek government at the time saw the union with the Eurozone as a way out of its economic toils, and a way to keep this system going. Many foreign as well

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    Fiscal deficits and Government Debts. The growth of government debt can have disastrous consequences for an economy in the long-run. How can one explain these occurrences and how, if at all, can they be stopped or prevented? When federal revenues and government spending are equal in a given fiscal year, then the government has a balanced budget. When the revenues are greater than spending, the result is a surplus. But if government spending is greater than tax collections, the result is a deficit

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    inform his readers the different types of debt that may have been heard on the news but not knowing the exact meaning and the real act of its size. The complete national debt of the United States is the amount of every government bill, notes and bonds that have been issued by the Treasury and not yet recovered. The openly held debt is the amount of the Treasury securities held by people, money establishments and outside governments. The intra-governmental debt is the amount of Treasury securities held

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    ingenious opinions and analysis related to a topic on U.S. government budget deficit and government obligations and liabilities. As a result of the economic circumstances and current consequences of budget deficit in the United States there have been many controversial hypotheses of what future may bring to the American people. Therefore, I would like to face deeply inquire in to of how our countries government deficit and outstanding debt will affect its citizens and I also assume there are new

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    I would like to start with a famous Alexander Hamilton’s quote “A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing”. The American national debt has been a key pillar for the world mass media due to the show named “default” which has been widely supported by some congressmen and even the president. Eventually, the law, maximizing the upper threshold for the national debt, was passaged. However, various kinds of analytics have made so many forecasts recently, that I was almost

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