‘US Tech Spending Growth Slows To Under 4% In 2013 Due Federal Budget Cuts And Shutdowns’ – ‘The Forrester Blog’

The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “US Tech Spending Growth Slows To Under 4% In 2013 Due Federal Budget Cuts And Shutdowns”.

Andrew Bartels says, “The Congressional juveniles with their calls for big Federal budgets cuts, tolerance of Federal government shutdowns and flirting with Federal debt defaults have been put back into their corner, so it is time to assess how much damage they have done to the US tech market.  In Forrester’s semi-annual US tech market update, we conclude that the Federal budget sequestration, the two-week Federal government shutdown, and the fallout from threats to not raise the Federal debt ceiling have shaved about two percentage points of growth from business and government spending on technology goods and services in 2013 (October 25, 2013, “Government Spending Brinksmanship Drags Down The 2013 US Tech Market Outlook – We Cut Our 2013 Spending Growth Estimate To 3.9% From 5.7%”)”.

US Tech Spending Growth Slows To Under 4% In 2013 Due Federal Budget Cuts And Shutdowns

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