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Record W3209408060 · doi:10.31857/s268667300016895-4

US Federal Finance: Growing Structural Inefficiency

2021· article· en· W3209408060 on OpenAlexaff
Vladimir Vasiliev

Bibliographic record

VenueUSA & Canada Economics – Politics – Culture · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicEconomic Issues in Ukraine
Canadian institutionsInstitute for Christian Studies
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFederal budgetDeficit spendingDebtGreat DepressionEconomicsGovernment debtGovernment (linguistics)InefficiencyState (computer science)ParallelsFinanceEconomic policyPolitical scienceFiscal yearMarket economy

Abstract

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The current state of the US Federal finance system is analyzed, characterized by record absolute and relative parameters of budget deficits and gross Federal government debt. It is emphasized that the record indicators of debt and deficit objectively testify to the growing vulnerability of the US Federal finance system to external waves and shocks. Such a shock to the American economy was the coronavirus pandemic, the impact of which the United States began to feel acutely in the spring of 2020. The article draws parallels between the current crisis of the Federal finance system and the crisis of the mid-1940s. However, if in the mid-1940s, the colossal size of budget deficits and debt dependence of the United States was a consequence of the previous 15 years of the Great Depression of the 1930s and World War II in the first half of the 1940s, now the record indicators of deficits and debt of the Federal government formed in the last year or two. As a result, the usual process of ranking and establishing a system of budget priorities has been disrupted in the United States covering first of all distribution of budgetary funds between military and civilian expenditures. At the same time, a process of blurring between the parameters of "budget authority" and "budget outlays" began to occur which does not give a clear idea of the exact amount of budgetary funds allocated to the main activities spheres of the Federal government. Nevertheless, we can say that the growing financial constraints have already resulted in the stabilization of US military spending at the level of about $ 700.0 billion annually and the reduction in funding for many key programs for the procurement of the new weapons systems. There is also a growing awareness in the United States of the fact that in modern conditions many civilian programs, especially in the health sector, play no less important role in ensuring the national security of the United States in the broadest sense of the word than the actual military programs. In general, the Democratic administration of J. Biden has not yet succeeded in formulating a clear and coherent fiscal policy, which is carried out in many ways in the "manual control" mode.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.926
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.201
Teacher spread0.189 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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