{"id":3170,"date":"2009-02-17T15:06:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T09:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2009-02-18T18:44:59","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T13:14:59","slug":"hiding-the-fiscal-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200902\/hiding-the-fiscal-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding the Fiscal Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the UPA government, which presided over the boom phase of the business cycle has ended its term with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/2009\/02\/16222314\/Fiscal-deficit-puts-next-gover.html?h=A1\">incredibly high <\/a>fiscal deficit. It\u00a0 got away with its legal responsibility to keep the budget within limits by\u00a0 keeping them within limits on paper and simply spending more than it was allowed.\u00a0 Chidambaram&#8217;s response to those who pointed out that he had not actually provided funding for the NREGA was, in effect &#8220;Trust me. Do you think I am so stupid as to not provide funds for such an important scheme?&#8221;\u00a0 Now, we will enter the bust phase of the cycle burdened with a huge deficit. For some reason, I am reminded of the discussion I got into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200801\/rounding-off-the-nrega-trilogy\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the UPA government, which presided over the boom phase of the business cycle has ended its term with an incredibly high fiscal deficit. It\u00a0 got away with its legal responsibility to keep the budget within limits by\u00a0 keeping them within limits on paper and simply spending more than it was allowed.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[258,257,31,256,197,255,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3173,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions\/3173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}