Posts Tagged ‘ debt ceiling ’

A National Debt That Will Never Be Repaid

Jan 7th, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
As you read this, the U.S. government owes just a sliver under $14 trillion dollars to various suckers who’ve lent it money. And it wants to borrow more. Timothy Geithner warned that a failure to raise the debt limit would mean the government would not be able to make the payments ...read more

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The Debt Problem Has Not Gone Away

Feb 1st, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Last year's stock market rally was impressive. But what if it was merely a case of investors taking on more risk, having been encouraged by low interest rates and all the liquidity sloshing around in the stock market, taking it higher? How would that be substantially different from banks taking ...read more

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