Talk:Structural and cyclical deficit

Greedy Gideon .. did you post this bollocks... :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.71.17.110 (talk) 01:46, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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Much of what constitutes this wiki entry seems to come from the first item Google returns when searched for 'structural deficit': http://glossary.reuters.com/index.php?title=Structural_Deficit —Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.18.149.42 (talk) 22:34, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Brit-enomics?
Both external links in this article are to British sites. This raises the question whether "structural deficit" is a British phrase, relevant to politics and economics in Britain. If so, it should be defined as such.Jedwards01 (talk) 00:32, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

The term "structural deficit" is in common use in the European Union area. You find the term in, for instance, the French Wikipedia, here: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9culation_sur_les_dettes_souveraines_europ%C3%A9ennes#Trait.C3.A9_europ.C3.A9en_sur_la_stabilit.C3.A9.2C_la_coordination_et_la_gouvernance_.28TSCG.29. However, different researchers and bodies (OECD, ECB, EU Commission, national governments, research institutes) use different methods to determine the structural deficit of particular countries. --Mikaelbook (talk) 05:52, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

Definition
"Structural deficit differs from cyclical deficit in that structural deficit exists even when the economy is at its potential."

Potential what? Is that sentence complete? If so then this is some technical use of the word potential not clear to the non-specialist. Sergeirichard (talk) 20:58, 25 April 2012 (UTC)


 * It's a fair point, I don't think the article is written particularly clearly. You're right that that sentence really isn't complete as it never tells us what a cyclical deficit is (I don't think it's mentioned anywhere in the article). So unless you assume everyone knows what a cyclical deficit is, which of course they don't, it's unclear how they differ. I might give it a copyedit if I remember, but would welcome input from someone with more specialist expertise. --jjron (talk) 16:57, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Done. As above, someone with more specialist expertise may like to check over it. --jjron (talk) 15:58, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Criticism Section
the criticism section appears to be based entirely on an article written for the investors chronicle by Chris Dillow. He describes himself as a marxist and a labour party (UK) supporter. he wrote the cited op ed in response to a letter to the times criticising the government (that he supports) for not dealing with the stuctural deficit. the letter was signed by many leading economists.

Can this possibly meet the standards required for wikipedia? I would suggest that unless a better source could be found the section should be removed. Flagpolewiki (talk) 12:42, 24 November 2013 (UTC)


 * well i've made some changes to reflect the above. Flagpolewiki (talk) 10:01, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Statement not supported by source
"Monetising the debt can lead to high levels of inflation, but with proper fiscal control this can be minimised or even avoided"

The highlighted part does not appear to be supported by the source. Would be genuinely interested to see sources that describe examples of countries that successfully monetised their debt and managed to controlled inflation and how they did it.Levelledout (talk) 13:32, 27 May 2015 (UTC)