Logo 09 Aug 2017

A coming fiscal cliff?

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The central government’s fiscal taps have been open in the first half of 2017. But that is strange — usually the government keeps its powder dry to spend as needed late in the year. (Bloomberg):

Officials usually turn on the taps around November and December, once they know they’ll have raised...