Things to panic about, things to take in our stride

Sunday column with fun graphs and quizzes

There’s a familiar sound to each year’s budget speech, like the song you’ll hear every visit to the supermarket.

It goes like this:

Well, it's a deficit this year. And next year too. But we expect to be back in surplus the following year

By rights, when budget day rolls around the following year you might expect to be hearing:

Yep, that surplus is now a yea…