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Glossary
- Monetisation of public debt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Money supply [r]: the economy's stock of those assets that can be quickly exchanged for goods and services. [e]
- National debt [r]: The external obligations of the government and public sector agencies (otherwise known as national debt or government debt). [e]
- Primary budget deficit [r]: the budget deficit excluding payments of interest on the national debt. [e]
- Ricardian equivalence [r]: the argument that government spending will not increase demand because it will prompt taxpayers to save an equivalent amount in anticipation of a resulting tax increase. [e]