11.   Speculation that the July trade deficit would balloon also led stocks to fall.

12.   Still, the last time taxes were cut significantly, under Ronald Reagan, the deficit ballooned.

13.   The deficit is ballooning, and the country has been rocked by a spate of politically related financial scandals.

14.   The government budget deficit has ballooned, forcing leaders to search for deep cuts.

15.   Those shortfalls caused the federal deficit to balloon in recent years.

16.   Though the federal budget deficit ballooned during the administration of Republican President Ronald Reagan, bond yields, and interest rates, declined.

17.   When investors flocked to Asia earlier this decade, stock markets surged and current-account deficits ballooned.

18.   A DBCC source, meanwhile, warned that the CPS deficit could still balloon from the current estimates if austerity measures were not carried out as stipulated.

19.   Above that, however, the deficit would balloon, sending prices spiraling higher.

20.   But as growth has stagnated and deficits ballooned, the government was forced to make cuts.