{"id":6157,"date":"2012-11-13T19:16:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T00:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2012-11-13T19:16:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T00:16:24","slug":"australia-not-fiscal-cliff-fiscal-flab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/13\/australia-not-fiscal-cliff-fiscal-flab\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia: Not fiscal cliff &#8212; fiscal flab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Irvine writes that Australia is faced with an aging population and spiraling health costs, but a free-spending government will leave us unprepared.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color:#ccccff;\"><p>Two veteran Budget forecasting groups, Deloitte Access Economics and Macroeconomics, have in recent days delivered their verdict on Mr Swan&#8217;s mid-year Budget update: It&#8217;s codswallop. The Federal Budget is not in surplus by $1.1 billion this year but in deficit by $4.2 billion, according to Deloitte, and $7 billion, according to Macroeconomics&#8230;..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/m.dailytelegraph.com.au\/money\/money-matters\/were-afflicted-with-the-same-fiscal-flab-most-governments-struggle-with\/story-fn300aev-1226516077257'>We&#039;re afflicted with the same fiscal flab most governments struggle with | thetelegraph.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Irvine writes that Australia is faced with an aging population and spiraling health costs, but a free-spending government will leave us unprepared. Two veteran Budget forecasting groups, Deloitte Access Economics and Macroeconomics, have in recent days delivered their verdict on Mr Swan&#8217;s mid-year Budget update: It&#8217;s codswallop. 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