Quelle: Historische Tabellen des Office of Management and Budget (Budget für das Geschäftsjahr 2027)
In R mit GGplot2 erstellte Visualisierung.
Die Grafik zeigt die jährlichen US-Bundesüberschüsse und -defizite als Prozentsatz des BIP, gruppiert nach der Präsidialverwaltung von 1930 bis 2025. Große Spitzen sind auf den Zweiten Weltkrieg, die Finanzkrise von 2008 und die fiskalischen Reaktionen auf COVID-19 zurückzuführen. Die Zuordnung der Geschäftsjahre erfolgt auf Grundlage der Verwaltung, die den Großteil des Geschäftsjahres im Amt war.
Visualisierung: Forensic Economic Services LLC | Rule703.com
Von forensiceconomics
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Very cool and informative visualization.
I published a [chart](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/ZlZ4c6NeMr) earlier today that labels the different presidencies in a roughly similar way, also using R’s ggplot.
Nice to see this convergence.
Blue goes up, red goes down.
It’s pretty amazing 9/11 and the “war on terror” didn’t have a bigger impact, considering the absolutely massive increase in the size of federal workforce.
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Reagan campaigned on balancing the budget, but than ran up the deficit. Clinton actually fixed it, but then Bush II pushed it the other way again. Obama and Biden both had to deal with crises when they came in. Ironically it’s the democrats who’ve done more to try to deal with the deficit, than the “fiscally conscious” republicans.
This chart is wrong. Fiscal years start in October with a budget the should be passed before the fiscal year starts. Before a President assumes office the fiscal year is already 4 months old. So, for example, the 2009 budget should be red, not blue.
Showing which party controlled Congress is an important data point here since Congress controls the budget.
Federal and State Budgets are not designed to acquire money and hold on to it. Our whole government model is to „DO“ and ask „Fiscal Forgiveness“ later.
We need to do something wildly different if we want a fiscal surplus every year and for the government to acquire a cash horde. Doing so effectively pulls money out of the economy, and has a deflationary effect — which will also hurt people economicly.
It bothers me that Obama gets saddled with this 2008 financial crises debt.
TARP was created by Bush and the GOP. A little chef’s kiss to the banks on Bush’s way out.
All feedbacks are much appreciated.
This looks bad for Democrats so watch the brigade to arrive and pick it apart.
Funny thing is that all the excuses they are going to use can also be used by Republicans.
Only one year from 1946-2008 above 5% and that year was just barely. And since then 10 out of the next 17 over 5%, some way by a huge margin. What a massive clusterfuck we are in.