The budget and economic outlook [[electronic resource] ] : fiscal years 2008 to 2018 / / [the Congress of the United States,] Congressional Budget Office

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454560803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2009
• ISBN: 1-60741-392-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 p.)
• Soggetti: Budget - United States; Expenditures, Public - Forecasting; Fiscal policy - United States; Electronic books.; United States Appropriations and expenditures; United States Economic policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents ""; ""Summary ""; ""The Budget Outlook ""; ""Baseline Projections for the 2009-2018 Period ""; ""Changes in the Baseline Budget Outlook Since August ""; ""The Economic Outlook ""; ""Chapter 1: The Budget Outlook ""; ""A Review of 2007 ""; ""The Concept Behind CBOâ€?s Baseline Projections ""; ""CBOâ€?s Baseline Projections for 2008 to 2018 ""; ""Outlays ""; ""Revenues ""; ""Debt Held by the Public ""; ""Changes in CBOâ€?s Baseline Since August 2007 ""; ""Uncertainty and Budget Projections ""; ""Uncertainty of Future Legislative Actions ""; ""Other Sources of Uncertainty ""; ""Federal Debt Held by the Public """"The Long-Term Budget Outlook ""; ""Chapter 2: The Economic Outlook ""; ""The Threat to the Economy From the Turmoil in the Financial Markets ""; ""Problems in Subprime Mortgage Markets ""; ""Spillovers Into Other Financial Markets ""; ""Federal Reserve Actions and Interest Rates ""; ""How the U.S. Subprime-Related Turmoil Has Affected Other Countries ""; ""The Prospect of Slow Economic Growth in the Near Term ""; ""Continued Weakness in the Housing Sector ""; ""A Slowdown in Consumer ; Spending ""; ""Strengthening of Net Exports ""; ""Steady Growth Projected in Government Purchases """"The Persistent Risk of Higher Inflation ""; ""Indicators of Moderate Inflation: Measures of Resource Constraints and Rents ""; ""Risks of Higher Inflation: Commodity Prices and the Falling Dollar ""; ""The Outlook Through 2018 ""; ""Potential Output ""; ""Inflation, Unemployment, and Interest Rates ""; ""Projections of Income ""; ""Data Problems ""; ""Income Shares ""; ""Changes in the Outlook Since August 2007 ""; ""How CBOâ€?s Forecast Compares With Others ""; ""Chapter 3: The Spending Outlook ""; ""Mandatory Spending ""; ""Medicare and Medicaid """"Social Security ""; ""Other Income-Security Programs ""; ""Other Federal Retirement and Disability Programs ""; ""Other Mandatory Spending ""; ""What Causes Growth in Mandatory Spending? ""; ""Offsetting Receipts ""; ""Legislation Assumed in the Baseline ""; ""Discretionary Spending ""; ""Recent Trends in Discretionary Funding and Outlays ""; ""Discretionary Spending from 2009 Through 2018 ""; ""Net Interest ""; ""Interest on Debt Held by the Public ""; ""Interest on Intragovernmental Holdings ""; ""Other Interest and Investment Income ""; ""Chapter 4: The Revenue Outlook """"Sources of Revenues ""; ""Historical Perspective ""; ""Projections in Brief ""; ""CBOâ€?s Current Revenue Projections in Detail ""; ""Individual Income Taxes ""; ""The Individual Income Tax Base ""; ""The Social Insurance Tax Base ""; ""The Corporate Income Tax Base ""; ""Social Insurance Taxes ""; ""Corporate Income Taxes ""; ""Business Cycles ""; ""Changes to Tax Law ""; ""Inflation ""; ""Average Tax Rates in Recent Years ""; ""Excise Taxes ""; ""Estate and Gift Taxes ""; ""Other Sources of Revenue ""; ""The Effects of Expiring Tax Provisions ""; ""Provisions That Expire in CBOâ€?s Baseline Projections ""