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Use the table below to answer the following questions. Suppose the government starts with a debt of $30 billion. The next 5 years bring the following sequence of budget balances (in $ billions): Year Def/Surpl $ 1 deficit 160 2 deficit 85 3 surplus 150 4 deficit 50 5 surplus 120 Government debt at the end of year 5 is $ billion. Use the information below to answer the following questions. The government of Ricardia's budget lists the following projected revenues and outlays: Item $m personal income taxes 29 corporate income taxes 18 indirect taxes 7 investment income 3 transfer payments 35 government expenditure 16 debt interest 11 Ricardia has a government budget of $ million.

          Use the table below to answer the following questions.
Suppose the government starts with a debt of $30 billion.
The next 5 years bring the following sequence of budget balances (in $ billions):
Year Def/Surpl $
1 deficit 160
2 deficit 85
3 surplus 150
4 deficit 50
5 surplus 120
Government debt at the end of year 5 is $  billion.
Use the information below to answer the following questions.
The government of Ricardia's budget lists the following projected revenues and outlays:
Item $m
personal income taxes 29
corporate income taxes 18
indirect taxes 7
investment income 3
transfer payments 35
government expenditure 16
debt interest 11
Ricardia has a government budget of $  million.

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Use the table below to answer the following questions.
Suppose the government starts with a debt of 30 billion.
The next 5 years bring the following sequence of budget balances (in billions):
Year Def/Surpl 1 deficit 160
2 deficit 85
3 surplus 150
4 deficit 50
5 surplus 120
Government debt at the end of year 5 is billion.
Use the information below to answer the following questions.
The government of Ricardia's budget lists the following projected revenues and outlays:
Item m
personal income taxes 29
corporate income taxes 18
indirect taxes 7
investment income 3
transfer payments 35
government expenditure 16
debt interest 11
Ricardia has a government budget of million.

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Use the table below to answer the following questions. Suppose the government starts with a debt of $30 billion. The next 5 years bring the following sequence of budget balances (in $ billions): | Year | Def/Surpl | |------|-----------| | 1 | deficit | | 2 | deficit | | 3 | surplus | | 4 | deficit | | 5 | surplus | Government debt at the end of years is $ billion. Use the information below to answer the following questions. The government of Ricardia's budget lists the following projected revenues and outlays: | Item | $m | |-----------------|-----| | personal income taxes | 29 | | corporate income taxes | 18 | | indirect taxes | | | investment income | | | transfer payments | | | government expenditure | | | debt interest | | Ricardia has a government budget of $ million.

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00:01 So here we're talking public finance and we have information about year, government spending, which i'll call g, tax revenues, which i'll call t, and gdp, which i'll call y, right? and we are thinking about a whole bunch of information.

00:18 So here's one, two, three, four, five, six.

00:22 We have 450, 500, 600, 640, 680, 600.

00:34 We have 425, 450, 500, 620, 580, and 620.

00:47 And we have, i'm just going to put it in thousands, 3, 4, 5, 4 .8, and 5.

00:54 So now i want to calculate two columns, right? the first thing is the deficit.

00:59 And the deficit is the difference between taxes and government spending, right? or the surplus in some cases.

01:06 So here, right, if i subtract these, or i guess i should say the deficit is, sorry, g minus t.

01:20 If i subtract these, you see that the government is running a deficit of 25.

01:25 And here it's running a deficit of 50.

01:27 And here it's running a deficit of 100.

01:28 And here 20, and here 100, and here minus 20.

01:33 So we can now calculate the debt.

01:37 And the debt, we assume starts at zero, because the nation came into existence at the beginning of year one.

01:44 So here the debt is 25.

01:46 Now we add 50 to our debt.

01:48 So it goes to 75.

01:49 Now our debt goes to 175.

01:52 Now it goes to, sorry, 195...

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