## Posts tagged “budget”

Government money and saving
How private sector saving affects the fiscal multiplier and the government's budget

In the last post we looked at they way in which government spending and taxation interacts with the circular flow of money. In particular, we found that, in an economy with no saving, money introduced by the government is repeatedly spent creating additional income beyond that created by the initial government spending. Since the government collects an income tax on each transaction, the money introduced by the government spending is gradually withdrawn as it is re-spent. This "leakage" of money out of circulation places a limit on the total amount of spending and income that can ultimately arise. The eventual total level of aggregate income was shown to be a multiple, $$\frac {1}{\theta}$$, of the initial government spend (where $$\theta$$ is the tax rate). Here we'll consider what changes in this story when the population decide to save some of their income.