Sentence examples for reason the deficit from inspiring English sources
And the growing transparency of that agenda is the fourth reason the deficit scolds have lost their clout.
The only reason the deficit "supercommittee" failed was because Republicans refused to raise taxes on the rich, and wanted to cut them even below their bargain-basement prices.
That is the main reason the deficit this year is likely to be £6bn lower than it looked to be four months ago.
Which brings me to the third reason the deficit scolds have lost influence: the contrary doctrine, the claim that we need to practice fiscal austerity even in a depressed economy, has failed decisively in practice.
Mr. Schoenholtz said that weakness of incomes and demand abroad was "a very significant portion of the reason" why the deficit in international transactions had not narrowed more.
But much of the reason for the deficit is that insurance companies have short-changed thousands of people, expecting that the Road Home would pick up the slack.
Contrary to Republican claims, a big reason that the deficit exploded was a collapse in tax revenues rather than a spurt of stimulus spending.
Robert Dallek, the author of "An Unfinished Life," probably the best single-volume Kennedy biography, suggests that the cultish atmosphere surrounding, and perhaps smothering, the actual man may be the reason for the deficit of good writing about him.
But one reason that the deficit estimate was higher than those of outside analysts was that it added in hundreds of billions of dollars in spending tied to the government's existing bailout programs, which the Bush administration has thus far treated as "investments" it would recoup rather than "spending" or "costs" that are down the drain.
The reason that the deficit situation looks hugely worse than it did two years ago is that the $8 trillion housing bubble that had been driving the economy finally collapsed and threw the country into the worst downturn since the Great Depression.
