The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please improve this article or discuss the issue on the talk page.

Please help improve this article or section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. This article has been tagged since January 2007.

Government spending or government expenditure consists of government purchases, which can be financed by seigniorage (the creation of money for government funding, at a heavy price of high inflation and other possibly devastating consequences), taxes, or government borrowing. It is considered to be one of the major components of gross domestic product. Image File history File links Gnome-globe. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Seigniorage, also spelled seignorage or seigneurage, is the net revenue derived from the issuing of currency. ... -1... For other uses, see Debt (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

John Maynard Keynes was one of the first economists to advocate government deficit spending as part of a fiscal policy to cure an economic contraction. In Keynesian economics, increased government spending is thought to raise aggregate demand and increase consumption. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Economists are scholars conducting research in the field of economics. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Fiscal policy is the economic term that defines the set of principles and decisions of a government in setting the level of public expenditure and how that expenditure is funded. ... A recession is traditionally defined in macroeconomics as a decline in a countrys real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for two or more successive quarters of a year (equivalently, two consecutive quarters of negative real economic growth). ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... In economics, aggregate demand is the total demand for goods and services in the economy (Y) during a specific time period. ... In economics, consumption refers to the final use of goods and services to provide utility. ...

[edit] References

• CBO's Current Budget Projections, Congressional Budget Office, March 2, 2007.

March 2 is the 61st day of the year (62nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

[edit] See also

• Government operations