A
- ABS
- Account
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Accredited Investor (SEC)
- Accrual Accounting
- Adjustable-Rate Mortgage
- Administration Budget
- Advance Appropriation
- Advance estimate (GDP)
- Advance Funding
- Advance Payment
- Affordable Care Act (ACA)
- Agency
- Agency Debt
- Agency Mortgage-Backed Security (agency MBS)
- Aggregate measure
- Aggregates
- Allocation
- Allotment
- Allowance
- Alternative measures of labor underutilization
- Amendment
- American Community Survey (ACS)
- Antideficiency Act
- Antideficiency Act Violation
- Apportionment
- Appreciation
- Apprenticeship
- Appropriated Entitlement
- Appropriation
- Appropriation Rider
- Asset (Government)
- Asset-Backed Security (ABS)
- Audit
- Authorization
- Authorizing Committee
- Automatic stabilizer
- Automation
- Average
B
- BA
- Backdoor Authority/Backdoor Spending
- Balance of payments
- Balance Sheet
- Balanced Budget
- Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
- Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987
- Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
- Bank Holding Company (BHC)
- Bank reserves
- Bank Run
- Barrier to entry
- Base period
- Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC)
- Base year
- Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)
- Baseline
- Bases of Budgeting
- Basis point
- BEA
- Biennial Budget
- Bills
- Birth Rate
- Black market
- BLS
- Borrowing Authority
- BRAC
- Bretton Woods System
- Budget
- Budget Act
- Budget and Accounting Act of 1921
- Budget Authority (BA)
- Budget Deficit
- Budget Enforcement Act of 1990
- Budget Enforcement Act of 1997
- Budget Estimates
- Budget Function 050: National Defense
- Budget Function 154: Foreign information and exchange activities
- Budget Function 250: General Science, Space, and Technology
- Budget Function 270: Energy
- Budget Function 300: Natural Resources and Environment
- Budget Function 350: Agriculture
- Budget Function 370: Commerce and Housing Credit
- Budget Function 400: Transportation
- Budget Function 450: Community and Regional Development
- Budget Function 500: Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services
- Budget Function 550: Health
- Budget Function 570: Medicare
- Budget Function 600: Income Security
- Budget Function 650: Social Security
- Budget Function 700: Veterans Benefits and Services
- Budget Function 750: Administration of Justice
- Budget Function 800: General Government
- Budget Function 900: Net Interest
- Budget Function 920: Allowances
- Budget Function 950: Undistributed Offsetting Receipts
- Budget Function 970: Overseas Deployments and Other Activities
- Budget Function 999: Multifunction account (used for accounts that involve two or more major functions).
- Budget Functions
- Budget Points of Order
- Budget Receipts
- Budget resolution
- Budget Sub-Function 051: Department of Defense–Military
- Budget Sub-Function 053: Atomic energy defense activities
- Budget Sub-Function 054: Defense-related activities
- Budget Sub-Function 150: International Affairs
- Budget Sub-Function 151: International development and humanitarian assistance
- Budget Sub-Function 152: International security assistance
- Budget Sub-Function 153: Conduct of foreign affairs
- Budget Sub-Function 155: International financial programs
- Budget Sub-Function 251: General science and basic research
- Budget Sub-Function 252: Space flight, research, and supporting activities
- Budget Sub-Function 271: Energy supply
- Budget Sub-Function 272: Energy conservation
- Budget Sub-Function 274: Emergency energy preparedness
- Budget Sub-Function 276: Energy information, policy, and regulation
- Budget Sub-Function 301: Water resources
- Budget Sub-Function 302: Conservation and land management
- Budget Sub-Function 303: Recreational resources
- Budget Sub-Function 304: Pollution control and abatement
- Budget Sub-Function 306: Other natural resources
- Budget Sub-Function 351: Farm income stabilization
- Budget Sub-Function 352: Agricultural research and services
- Budget Sub-Function 371: Mortgage credit
- Budget Sub-Function 372: Postal Service
- Budget Sub-Function 373: Deposit insurance
- Budget Sub-Function 376: Other advancement of commerce
- Budget Sub-Function 401: Ground transportation
- Budget Sub-Function 402: Air transportation
- Budget Sub-Function 403: Water transportation
- Budget Sub-Function 407: Other transportation
- Budget Sub-Function 451: Community development
- Budget Sub-Function 452: Area and regional development
- Budget Sub-Function 453: Disaster relief and insurance
- Budget Sub-Function 501: Elementary, secondary, and vocational education
- Budget Sub-Function 502: Higher education
- Budget Sub-Function 503: Research and general education aids
- Budget Sub-Function 504: Training and employment
- Budget Sub-Function 505: Other labor services
- Budget Sub-Function 506: Social services
- Budget Sub-Function 551: Health care services
- Budget Sub-Function 552: Health research and training
- Budget Sub-Function 554: Consumer and occupational health and safety
- Budget Sub-Function 571: Medicare
- Budget Sub-Function 601: General retirement and disability insurance (excluding Social Security)
- Budget Sub-Function 602: Federal employee retirement and disability
- Budget Sub-Function 603: Unemployment compensation
- Budget Sub-Function 604: Housing assistance
- Budget Sub-Function 605: Food and nutrition assistance
- Budget Sub-Function 609: Other income security
- Budget Sub-Function 651: Social Security
- Budget Sub-Function 701: Income security for veterans
- Budget Sub-Function 702: Veterans’ education, training, and rehabilitation
- Budget Sub-Function 703: Hospital and medical care for veterans
- Budget Sub-Function 704: Veterans’ housing
- Budget Sub-Function 705: Other veterans benefits and services
- Budget Sub-Function 751: Federal law enforcement activities
- Budget Sub-Function 752: Federal litigative and judicial activities
- Budget Sub-Function 753: Federal correctional activities
- Budget Sub-Function 754: Criminal justice assistance
- Budget Sub-Function 801: Legislative Sub-Functions
- Budget Sub-Function 802: Executive direction and management
- Budget Sub-Function 803: Central fiscal operations
- Budget Sub-Function 804: General property and records management
- Budget Sub-Function 805: Central personnel management
- Budget Sub-Function 806: General purpose fiscal assistance
- Budget Sub-Function 808: Other general government
- Budget Sub-Function 809: Deductions for offsetting receipts
- Budget Sub-Function 901: Interest on the Treasury debt securities (gross)
- Budget Sub-Function 902: Interest received by on-budget trust funds
- Budget Sub-Function 903: Interest received by off-budget trust funds
- Budget Sub-Function 908: Other interest
- Budget Sub-Function 909: Other investment income
- Budget Sub-Function 921-929: Contingencies for specific requirements
- Budget Sub-Function 951: Employer share, employee retirement (on-budget)
- Budget Sub-Function 952: Employer share, employee retirement (off-budget)
- Budget Sub-Function 953: Rents and royalties on the outer continental shelf
- Budget Sub-Function 954: Sale of major assets
- Budget Sub-Function 959: Other undistributed offsetting receipts
- Budget Summit at Andrews Air Force Base (1990)
- Budget surplus
- Budget Update
- Budget Year
- Budgetary Reserves
- Budgetary Resources
- Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
- Bureau of the Budget
- Burn Rate
- Business cycle
- Business investment
- Business sector
- Buyback
- Byrd Rule
C
- C-CPI-U
- Cap Adjustments
- Capital
- Capital Budget
- Capital expenditures
- Capital investment
- Capitalism
- CARFA
- Cartel
- Cash Accounting
- CBDC
- CBO
- CBO Baseline
- Census
- Census Bureau
- Census Division
- Census Region 1
- Census Region 2
- Census Region 3
- Census Region 4
- Census Regions
- Census Tract
- Central bank
- Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
- CFPB
- CFTC
- Chained CPI-All Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U)
- Chained Dollars
- Chained index
- CHIMPs
- Civilian labor force
- Civilian population
- Clearing Accounts
- Coinage Act of 1834
- Collateral
- Collective bargaining
- Collusion
- Combined Statement of Receipts, Outlays, and Balances of the United States Government
- Commercial Bank
- Commercial Mortgage-Backed Security (CMBS)
- Commercial Paper (CP)
- Commission on the Accountability and Review of Federal Agencies Act (CARFA)
- Commodity
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
- Common stock
- Community Bank
- Comparative advantage
- Comparative Statement of New Budget Authority
- Compensation
- Compound annual rate
- Concurrent Resolution on the Budget
- Congressional Budget
- Congressional Budget Act
- Congressional Budget Act, Section 302
- Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
- Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
- Congressional Budget Timeline
- Consolidated Cash Budget
- Consolidated Financial Statement
- Consolidation
- Constant Dollars
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
- Consumer Price Index (CPI)
- Consumer surplus
- Continuing Resolution (CR)
- Corporation
- Cost Estimates
- Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA)
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Countercyclical policy
- CPI-All Urban Consumers (CPI-U)
- CPI-U
- CPI-Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W)
- CPI-W
- CR
- CRA
- Credit
- Credit Default Swap (CDS)
- Credit Rating Agency
- Credit Union
- Crypto-assets
- Cryptocurrency
- Current Authority
- Current Dollar
- Current Level Estimate
- Current Population Survey (CPS) (Household Survey)
- Current Services Estimates
- Current tax receipts
- Current Year
D
- Dawes Plan
- Debt Held by Government Accounts (Intragovernmental Debt)
- Debt Held by the Public
- Debt Limit
- Debt Service
- Debt Subject to Statutory Debt Limit
- Debt, Federal
- Decennial
- Decennial census
- Decile
- Deeming resolution
- Deferral of Budget Authority
- Deficiency Appropriation
- Deficit-Neutral Reserve Fund
- Deficits
- Defined Benefit Pension Plan
- Defined Contribution Retirement Plan
- Deflation
- Deflator
- Depreciation
- Depression
- Digital Asset
- Digital Currency
- Direct spending
- Disbursements
- Discount Rate
- Discouraged workers
- Discretionary Spending
- Displaced workers
- Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
- Dividends
- Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)
- Dumping
- Durable Goods
- Dynamic Scoring
E
F
- Family
- Farm Credit System
- FDIC
- Fed
- Federal Credit
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
- Federal Funds Rate
- Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)
- Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)
- Federal Reserve
- Federal Reserve Board of Governors
- Fiat money
- FICO Score
- Final Estimate
- Financial assets
- Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC)
- First Bank of the United States (1791-1811)
- Fiscal Consolidation
- Fiscal Dominance
- Fiscal year (FY)
- Foreign Direct investment (FDI)
- FY
G
- G-20
- Game Theory
- GAO
- GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
- GDP deflator
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
- Generation: Baby Boomers, Cohort (Generation)
- Generation: Generation Alpha, Cohort
- Generation: Generation X, Cohort
- Generation: Generation Z, Cohort
- Generation: The Silent Generation, Cohort
- GNP (Gross National Product)
- Government-Sponsored Enterprise (GSE)
- Governmental Receipts
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
- Gross Federal Debt
- Gross investment
- Gross National product (GNP)
- Gross output
- Growth rate
- GSE
M
N
P
- Pay-as-you-go (PAYGO)
- Personal consumption
- Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE)
- Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCE)
- Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index, Excluding Food and Energy (Core PCE)
- Personal income
- Personal saving
- Personal Savings Rate
- President’s Commission on Budget Concepts (1967)
- Privately held government debt
- Productivity
- Public Debt