{"id":83664,"date":"2024-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2024\/02\/21\/wherein-the-wsj-takes-an-interest-in-our-public-finances\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:00:00","slug":"wherein-the-wsj-takes-an-interest-in-our-public-finances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2024\/02\/21\/wherein-the-wsj-takes-an-interest-in-our-public-finances\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein the WSJ takes an interest in our public finances"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saudi makes the front page of the <\/strong>Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/strong>, which looks at how the Kingdom is taking on debt and planning the sale of another (small) stake in Aramco to continue financing gigaprojects under the Vision 2030 banner. The <\/p>\n

REMEMBER- Policymakers have accepted small deficits as the price of continuing to <\/strong>invest in growth:<\/strong> \u201cWe intentionally decided to spend more and cause the deficit. If you spend that money right, on productive assets, then it\u2019s money well spent,\u201d Finance Minister Mohamed Al Jadaan said in December during the FY 2024 budget forecast. He signaled it will continue to run deficits to support the \u201cgovernment's strategic expansionary spending.\u201d<\/p>\n

AND- The Kingdom is <\/strong>pacing out investment in some megaprojects<\/a><\/strong> so as not to block the private sector from liquidity it nerds to grow. The Kingdom\u2019s budget closed FY 2023 in deficit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Officials have previously signaled we\u2019d be borrowing \u2014 and pacing out select projects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2561],"tags":[57,10,1018,229,567],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-83664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saudi-in-the-news","tag-debt-watch","tag-enterpriseam-ksa","tag-public-policy","tag-saudi-in-the-news","tag-state-budget","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"302dcdef-cb53-4be2-8198-d6f817a9fd71","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Wherein the WSJ takes an interest in Saudi Arabia\u2019s public finances","related_issue":[83643],"teaser":"Officials have previously signaled we\u2019d be borrowing \u2014 and pacing out select projects","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2024\/2\/.82839d8d-e6cb-48e4-8bc6-8aeafd43cac8.mp3"},"yoast_head":"\nWherein the WSJ takes an interest in our public finances - 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