At 2:00 PM EDT, the Treasury budget for March will be released. The consensus is a deficit of $62 billion, after a deficit of $220.9 billion due to spending on stimulus projects and TARP outlays. Historically, the U.S. Treasury has run an average deficit of $108 billion over the last 10 years, so if the deficit is near the consensus, it will actually be unusually low.

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