The measures devised by the capable finance minister helped eliminate the deficit in the country's stalled finances.

Literal

Capable-[attributive-な] finance-minister-of creation-[become-になる] measures [topic-は], stall-[past-った] country-of finance-from deficit [object-を] eliminate-[purpose-のに] be-useful-[past-った].

A dense formal sentence. 創意になる ('of one's invention, devised by') is a formal collocation — 創意 ('original idea, ingenuity') + になる here marks the source. 行き詰まる ('to reach a dead end, stall') is a compound verb. 赤字 ('deficit, red figures') is idiomatic business vocabulary — losses historically recorded in red ink. The whole sentence reads like newspaper economic coverage.