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Monday, November 19, 2012

Fiscal Cliff

1. Major components of the "fiscal cliff":

Source: DB

2. Some major recent "unplanned" expenditures of the federal government:

Sources: USATodayBloombergWSJAEI

The fiscal cliff numbers pale in comparison. Clearly this is not a fair comparison because these other expenses are spread over a number of years. Nevertheless it is important to keep the relative magnitude of these expenses in perspective.

http://soberlook.com/2012/11/putting-fiscal-cliff-in-perspective.html

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