Deficit triggers rumbling at Fed

George Bush's longtime honeymoon with the Federal Reserve may be ending, this article suggests. The new element is a rising concern at the Fed about the US budget deficit, which hit $413 billion in 2004; a low and declining national savings rate and evidence of speculative behaviour among investors and consumers, and the country's enormous trade and financial deficits with the rest of the world.

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