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Копнем историю: Wednesday, August 4, 1999
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Business: The Economy
US to buy back national debt



For the first time in 25 years, the US Government plans to reduce the size of the national debt.
The news represents a transformation of the US budget position, after struggling with huge deficits for most of the last decade.
And it comes as a riposte to Republican plans to use the budget surplus to fund more tax cuts.
The last time the US tried to reduce its debt was in 1972...

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