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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: joseffy who wrote (757405)	12/11/2013 10:19:45 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577116

We just find amusing watching a human screech owl who lives in dyspeptic grey fog 24hrs a day. Do humanity a favor, make sure to donate that brain to science for study, don't deny us the wonders of pathology that might be uncovered. There is a purpose in your life after all...

To: joseffy who wrote (757405)	12/11/2013 10:23:53 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 1577116

US Budget Deficit Narrows as Job Gains Bolster Revenue ( down 23% yoy, try fogging that up nimrod) bloomberg.com The budget deficit in the U.S. last month narrowed more than economists forecast as rising employment and a rallying stock market boosted revenue to a November record. Spending exceeded revenue by $135.2 billion, compared with $172.1 billion in November 2012, the Treasury Department said today in Washington. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of 17 economists was for a $140 billion gap. Receipts rose 12.8 percent to the highest ever for the month, while spending fell 4.8 percent. Declining unemployment has helped reduce the country’s deficit as a share of gross domestic product by more than half in the past four years to $680.3 billion in fiscal year ended Sept. 30 from a record $1.42 trillion in 2009. The Congressional Budget Office has projected the shortfall will shrink further this year and next as stronger economic growth lifts individual and corporate taxes. “We’ve seen spending come down and tax receipts outperforming, based off of a little bit better economic growth,” said Michael Brown, an economist at Wells Fargo Securities LLC in Charlotte, North Carolina. “As long as we maintain a pace of job growth that is consistent with what we’ve seen over the last couple of months, that trend of increase in revenue should continue.” Rising Revenue Today’s report showed revenue increased to $182.5 billion last month from $161.7 billion in November 2012. Spending totaled $317.7 billion compared with $333.8 billion a year earlier, it showed. Individual income-tax receipts rose to $82.7 billion from $75 billion in November 2012, the report showed. The deficit totaled $226.8 billion in the first two months of fiscal 2014, compared with a $292.1 billion shortfall in October-November last year, according to the report. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was 2.84 percent at 2:23 p.m. in New York, compared with 2.80 percent late yesterday. A Labor Department report last week showed employers added more workers than economists forecast in November and the jobless rate dropped to a five-year low of 7 percent. The 203,000 increase in payrolls followed a revised 200,000 advance in October, according to the Dec. 6 report. The median forecast of 89 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 185,000 advance. Job Growth “As the labor market improves, more households are pushed into higher tax brackets,” Dean Maki, chief U.S. economist at Barclays Plc in New York, said in an interview before the report. “We expect the trend of fiscal improvement to continue over the next couple of years and this is mainly due to the economic expansion.” The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index gained 2.8 percent in November, its third straight monthly advance. This week, members of Congress led by Democratic Senator Patty Murray and Republican Representative Paul Ryan agreed to a budget accord that boosts future revenue by raising contributions that federal employees make to their retirement plans. The deal, which is subject to approval in both chambers, would set U.S. spending at about $1.01 trillion for this fiscal year, higher than the $967 billion required in a 2011 budget plan. It would reduce the automatic spending cuts known as sequestration by $40 billion in 2014 and about $20 billion in 2015. Lawmakers said the pact would reduce the budget deficit by $20 billion to $23 billion. In a statement yesterday, President Barack Obama called sequestration a “mindless drag on our economy,” saying the bipartisan agreement is a “good first step.” The Treasury sells bills, notes and bonds to finance the government’s operations. Issuance of net marketable debt will be $266 billion this quarter, compared with borrowing of $297 billion from October through December last year, according to Treasury data compiled by Bloomberg.