G20 carves out some more wiggle room on austerity plans

The world’s leading economies gave themselves a bit more wiggle room on Monday to meet targets for cutting budget deficits rather than risk worsening a slowdown in many countries, chief among them the United States. Meeting a day before the U.S. presidential election, the Group of 20 countries wo…

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G20 carves out some more wiggle room on austerity plans