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The government’s budget deficit will surge past a half-trillion dollars next year, according to gloomy new estimates, a record flood of red ink that promises to force the winner of the presidential race to dramatically alter his economic agenda.
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France’s Budget Minister Eric Woerth walks out of the Elysee Palace after the weekly cabinet meeting focused on the 2009 budget, Friday, Sept. 26, 2008. France reneged on a promise to its European counterparts of eliminating the budget deficit by 2012...
