“The U.S. posted its biggest monthly budget deficit on record last month, amid falling corporate and individual tax revenue and increasing federal spending,” Bloombergreports. “The budget gap widened to $234 billion in February, compared with a fiscal gap of $215.2 billion a year earlier. That gap surpassed the previous monthly record of $231.7 billion set seven years ago.”
Brace yourself , it's going to get worse. Financial world stunned as Trump offers Fed job to an ‘idiot’ who called for him to be awarded the Nobel Prize ‘Good Lord Terrible Idea’ Says a Dartmouth Economics Professor President Donald Trump has awarded Stephen Moore with the offer of a seat on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. Moore, best known as a cable news “economic analyst” last year called for Trump to be awarded the Nobel prize for economics. He served as a top Trump campaign economic advisor. Moore once was the chief economist for The Heritage Foundation, a far right wing think tank that is closely intertwined with the Trump administration. For unknown reasons that title was changed. He is now a “distinguished visiting fellow.” The Wall Street Journal Friday morning reported that “Mr. Trump spoke to Mr. Moore to compliment the economic commentator on an opinion article he co-authored last week calling the Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s policy moves a threat to the U.S. economy. The article was published in The Wall Street Journal, where Mr. Moore previously worked as an editorial-page writer.” Also unclear are Moore’s qualifications. He was the Founding President of the union-busting Club for Growth, which reportedly has received funding from the Koch Brothers. And he is listed as “the senior economic contributor for FreedomWorks,” which, in its original form was a Koch Brothers project. “Under its original name, Citizens for a Sound Economy, FreedomWorks received $12 million of its own from Koch family foundations,” The New York Times reported in 2010. University of Oregon Economic Professor Mark Thoma in 2007 wrote an article titled, “Is Stephen Moore ‘That Stupid’?“