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Governments around the world spend trillions annually, yet the logic behind budget allocations, deficit targets, and public-debt ceilings remains opaque to most citizens. In 'Government Spending with Fexingo: Budget, Deficits, and Public Finance Explained,' Lucas and Luna dissect the numbers behind national accounts. Lucas, a journalist with a knack for fiscal arcana, walks through real budget documents from the U.S., Germany, Japan, and emerging economies, while Luna challenges assumptions about where the money actually goes and who bears the future cost. Each episode focuses on a single government-spending concept: the difference between structural and cyclical deficits, the real burden of entitlement programs, how military budgets are justified, or why some countries run surpluses while others pile up debt. They avoid partisan talking points—no 'tax-and-spend' clichés or 'balanced-budget' slogans—and instead trace the actual flows from tax receipts to procurement contracts to transf
Fexingo hosts Government Spending with Fexingo: Budget, Deficits, and Public Finance Explained, a business show with 105 episodes published.
Episode 132 of Government Spending with Fexingo digs into a $10.2 billion annual overpayment in US federal payroll — mistakes in timekeeping, benefits, and tax withholding that add up to roughly $78 per taxpayer. Lucas a
In this episode of Government Spending with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a little-known culprit behind bloated public costs: flawed government pricing models. Using the Federal Reserve's 2024 study on federal procur
Episode 130 of Government Spending with Fexingo uncovers a hidden drain on public budgets: long-term office leases signed by city and state governments. Lucas and Luna examine a specific case—the Commonwealth of Pennsylv
Episode 129 of Government Spending with Fexingo: Budget, Deficits, and Public Finance Explained. Lucas and Luna dig into the economics of government incentive zones, using a specific case: the 2023 expansion of Opportuni
Episode 128 of Government Spending with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna examine why government IT projects routinely run 800 to 1,000 percent over budget, using the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' electronic health records
In this episode of Government Spending with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna drill into the $30 billion carbon-credit market and reveal how it functions as a hidden subsidy for the biggest polluters. They trace the origin of carb
Lucas and Luna break down the economics of government employee pensions, using the case of Illinois to show how most state pension systems are underfunded by trillions. They explain the key driver: assumption rates that
Episode 125 of Government Spending digs into an invisible tax that most people never see: seigniorage. When the Federal Reserve prints money, it captures the difference between the cost of producing a dollar bill and its
Every year, the federal government spends over $1 billion on postage alone — more than the entire postal service budget of many small countries. In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down how a single 2018 Government Acc
The U.S. federal government operates over 7,000 data centers, many of which run at less than 15 percent utilization. This episode drills into a 2025 GAO report showing that agencies spend $14 billion annually on data cen
Lucas and Luna break down a 2025 report from the Government Accountability Office revealing that federal agencies cannot account for over $2 trillion in spending. They explore the roots of this accounting failure, from i
In this episode of Government Spending with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna unpack the European Union's Digital Services Tax—DST—which took effect in 2021 and now applies to over 20,000 companies. They focus on a specific case:
In episode 120 of Government Spending with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna break down the mechanics of sovereign credit ratings. They examine how agencies like Moody's, S&P, and Fitch assign ratings, why the United States has fa
Lucas and Luna break down why governments pay roughly 40 percent more than private companies for the same goods and services. Using the example of office furniture—where the GSA pays $1,200 for a chair that retails for $
In this episode of Government Spending with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna examine why official government economic forecasts consistently miss the mark. Using the Congressional Budget Office's 2024 prediction of a 2025 federal
Lucas and Luna unpack the real cost of federal debt — not as a scary abstract number, but as a concrete claim on future workers' paychecks. Using the Congressional Budget Office's July 2026 long-term budget outlook, they
Episode 114 of Government Spending with Fexingo: Budget, Deficits, and Public Finance Explained dives into the hidden cost of state-level prevailing wage laws. Lucas and Luna break down how these laws require union-scale
Episode 113 of Government Spending with Fexingo digs into a stunning data point: public construction projects in the US cost roughly 50% more per square foot than comparable private-sector builds. Lucas walks through the
When the government sells land leases or mineral rights, it often auctions them to the highest bidder. But in practice, auction designs can systematically undercut taxpayers. This episode explains how 'common-value aucti
Lucas and Luna explore how federal and state subsidies for big-box retail and shopping malls have artificially propped up unprofitable commercial real estate, creating a landscape of dead malls and ghost towns. They zero
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