debt

A friend posted this on Facebook: It was from a page called "The Other 98%". Surely there's a non-occutard explanation for this.

Reading into the whole--I suppose libertarian narrative--arguments over debt and inflation, which was Rand Paul's arguments on his NPR interview, I could only conclude that the man is truly an idiot. These comments were immediately after he was asked to explain Obama's re-election victory, as...

I've been seeing a good bit of buzz lately about the idea of the US Treasury minting a $1 trillion platinum coin as a means of circumventing the debt ceiling debates. The White House even has a petition about it...

Fascist Soup reports: Praise Mao and may the Bernank destroy what little remains of your non-existent savings accounts.

I was just wondering something, if Steven Hawking was an american would he have been able to be successful with all his health problems, or would be have been crushed by debt?

That's the newly projected deficit for this fiscal year. In all seriousness, how do you borrow that amount of money? From whom? What do you have to do to convince people to lend it to you? If you decided to do a "stimulus package" of 10 trillion dollars, could that be done? I know that...

I just saw a short clip on CNN about the national debt clock not being able to show the 10 Trillion in Debt: http://us.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/10/04/dnt.lemon.natl.debt.clock.cnn Is the Debt something to be concerned about? - And if so, why?

Since the economy has gotten our attention, I though this would be a good topic to help us all understand a little better how our economic system is structured. Factcheck.org explains it in easy to understand language.

The semi-long story: I had a friend who, over the summer, was in a bit of a tough situation and I loaned her some money. She had to get back to New York and was flat broke at the moment, but was going to head back to her family so she could sell her car that was sitting in her father's garage...

It is more than apparent the United States cannot continue to run huge budget deficits and spend like drunken sailors in Washington. I have a solution that has been proposed throughout the Accounting circles for eons with little political dialogue. My plan is simple; eliminate income taxes on...

...and I'm almost wondering if this is the same sort of thing...

Hi all. I'm doing a research project on the markets of Eastern Europe. I ran across some figures for the "total debt stocks" of some countries. The textbook definition is "the sum of public and publicly guaranteed long-term debt, private nonguaranteed long-term debt, the use of IMF...

I know I'm exposing a great deal of ignorance here, but F it, I'm an American. What exactly is the National Debt and why is it that liberals seem to be the only ones concerned about paying it off? Is it money that we owe other countries, money the government owes us, or a combination of both...

http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=RAISEALARM-02-28-06 This can't be good for a free society. Rhode Island couple sent a big check in to pay off their credit card debt. Told that it would take a while to clear becase the Dept. of Homeland Security had to be notified...

Debt relief alone won't relieve third-world poverty. Joseph Stiglitz

Debt is bad, but debt relief is worse This column is by a Globe & Mail chronicler. I quite enjoyed reading it.

Geez...Our Federal debt is already $7.5 trillion, and the "fiscally responsible" "small government" "conservative" Republicans who have control of Congress want to vote to make it even bigger! Enough is enough. This borrow-and-spend Congress is sending us spiralling into perpetual debt. The...

So much for any thoughts of having a balanced budget or paying down the debt in the next Bush Administration: