While waiting for the subject to be at least partly regulated by European legislation (on which a first agreement at a political level has been reached in the last few days), we recently published a communication on our website explaining the necessary conceptual distinctions, alerting the public to the possible risks, and giving professional operators some indications of possible safeguards to reduce these risks.
The deficit dropped to its lowest level in more than two decades in fiscal 1997, and yesterday the Congressional Budget Office released projections that show the budget remaining essentially in balance over the next few years, moving to annual surpluses equal to 1 percent of GDP by the middle of the next decade.