Chap 17: Serialization of If It's Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks

SLAYING THE BUDGET DEFICIT DRAGON

CHAPTER 17
SLAYING THE BUDGET DEFICIT DRAGON

Last month, the Treasury Department surprised everybody by announcing that the federal government has been in surplus for the past year. Just a puny $2.5 billion in the black, but it’s the first budget surplus in almost 30 years. And it’s likely to get bigger this year—as high as $30 to $40 billion.

LOS ANGELES …