The phrase "aggressive deficit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing financial issues, behavioral problems, or resource shortages that are characterized by a forceful or intense nature.
Example: "The company's aggressive deficit in funding has led to significant cutbacks in operations."
Alternatives: "severe shortfall" or "intense lack".
There is a time and a place for aggressive deficit reduction.
We need a credible plan that phases in aggressive deficit reduction as the economy recovers.
And while Modern Monetary Theory's proponents take Keynes as their starting point and advocate aggressive deficit spending during recessions, they're not that type of Keynesians.
Into that void pour the fears stoked by a Chancellor who, despite his oft-avowed support for science, has set ambitious – some might say aggressive – deficit reduction targets.
The aggressive deficit reduction plan by the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington-based think tank, would generate $3.5 trillion in savings to 2020.
Spain has managed to separate itself from the malaise surrounding Portugal and others this year by undertaking some aggressive deficit cuts.
But he has put off any aggressive deficit-cutting until after November's midterm elections.
The aggressive deficit-cutting of the coalition's first flush was associated with stagnation, but, as economist Jonathan Portes points out, recent retrenchment has come at a more measured pace than in Europe, and recovery has begun.
By contrast, the IFS said Labour's less aggressive deficit-cutting targets would require "a mere £1bn" in further spending cuts over the next parliament, if Balls could achieve his aim of raising an extra £7.5bn through measures to tackle tax avoidance.
If critics of George Osborne's aggressive deficit-reduction timetable are proved right, and the strategy results in a slump, Mr Clegg will go down in history as the man who gave the Tories the parliamentary ammunition they needed to assassinate the economy.
For the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, who has long pushed the Tory party to adopt an aggressive deficit-cutting strategy, the menu of restrictions, freezes and spending reversals is a first bid to convince a still uncertain public that Britain needs to be in tune with the budget-cutting in Greece, Portugal, Spain and other parts of Europe.
