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What is deficit spending?

What is deficit spending? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (economics) The spending by a government in excess of government revenue.
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The government must resist political pressure for additional funding from all sides to avoid deficit spending.
It is very unlikely that the practice of deficit spending will be abandoned in the not too distant future.
Will a little tax cut here or a bit of deficit spending there turn things around?
As the government borrows more to pay for its deficit spending, interest rates rise, and that hurts our entrepreneurial cause.
Only ever greater doses of Keynesian deficit spending prevented the onset of deep crisis, but at the cost of runaway inflation.
When any economic agent spends more than they earn over any given period of time, they are deficit spending.

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