Some say the slide reflects large trade deficits, fiscal imbalance or other structural problems.

The resulting fiscal imbalance will test the nation's spending and tax policies.

The latest annual report of the federal government focuses more on the nation's long-range fiscal imbalance.

The economic crisis was primarily due to the large and growing fiscal imbalances over the 1980s.

And our fiscal imbalances will swell to more grotesque levels.

She is working with colleagues to find real solutions to our long-term fiscal imbalances.

This has been the main source of fiscal imbalance.

Behind the issue of fiscal imbalance, we need to address a deeper question: what is the federal government for?

An immediate and critical imperative is to redress fiscal imbalances.

While calling for more public support, the report said that a solution to the fiscal imbalance had to start with colleges and universities themselves.