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• Wingers should blame W, selves for alleged Obama kowtow to China

  
  SocraticGadfly — Authority: 442
  To the degree it’s true that President Barack Obama is allegedly soft-shoeing China on civil rights and other issues, blame George W. Bush’s massive war debt. There is no god and I am his prophet.
  14 hours ago

• Thrift Spoils Everything in a Consumer Economy

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 627
  “Those damned consumers and their whiny confidence readings!” the Feds must be cursing. Sentiment dropped to its lowest in three months, according to the Reuters /University of Michigan preliminary index. Apparently the consumers aren’t reading the papers. Don’t they know a recovery is underway? After all, ...
  14 hours ago

• Congress to raise the debt ceiling...again

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 604
  Congress will vote to raise the debt ceiling by the end of the year: The Obama administration is confident Congress will raise the country’s debt limit by year end to avert a showdown similar to the one that shuttered parts of the government in 1995, administration officials said. The White House wants an ...
  18 hours ago

• Obama to address budget deficit

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 604
  President Barack Obama is talking about addressing the deficit, apparently telling cabinet departments to expect the issue to be addressed either by a spending freeze or cuts: The Obama administration, mindful of public anxiety over the government’s mushrooming debt, is shifting emphasis from big-spending ...
  1 day ago

• Just How Bad Is The Democrat’s Spending?

  
  Tai-Chi Policy — Authority: 441
  October’s deficit is larger than all of 2007’s . Somehow I’m sure it’s Bush’s fault though, right? At least it’s the sort of crisis that can be used to drum up support for more corruption and cronyism . Posted in Democrats Tagged: Debt, Deficit, Obama, Spending, Stimulus, Travesty
  2 days ago

• Im no macroeconomist (or accountant)

  
  Heavy Lifting — Authority: 121
  I am scratching my head over this one and I wonder if I am just making too much out of something that is painfully obvious to the macroeconomists (and macro-accountants). I heard this yesterday and then read this sentence today:The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday the White House is considering applying some ...
  2 days ago

• Goldman On Why A Second Stimulus Is Merely Months Away

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 771
  Earlier today, Goldman came out with a harbinger piece on why a second stimulus announcement is essentially a formality. The administration has already promptly forgotten the lessons from the recent elections which were a failure for the Democrats, and a resounding vote against incremental deficit spending. The people ...
  3 days ago

• $176.4 billion budget deficit for October

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 604
  The flow of red ink continues : October was another costly month for Uncle Sam. The Treasury Department reported on Thursday that federal coffers racked up a worse-than-expected deficit of $176.4 billion for the month. It was the 13th straight month of a reported monthly deficit. Treasury said it was the largest ...
  3 days ago

• Thoughts on a $1,118.00 Day

  
  The METAVERSE — Authority: 107
  If it is always darkest before the dawn, daybreak must just be moments away. Because, on both the social and economic scales, it is a very dark time in America. Gold today hit a record high of over $1,118.00 an ounce as investors and governments around the world abandoned the US Dollar and other paper currencies ...
  4 days ago

• Budget Deficits Soar Out of Control in Eurozone, Germany, US, UK, Japan; Yen’s Last Hurrah

  
  Veritas Vos Liberabit — Authority: 437
  Budget Deficits Soar Out of Control in Eurozone, Germany, US, UK, Japan; Yen’s Last Hurrah by Michael Shedlock Budget deficits are soaring and printing presses are running at full steam everywhere you look including Germany and the Eurozone countries. Please consider Recession Upends German Zeal for Fiscal ...
  4 days ago

• Jim Cooper Testifies Debt is a Dangerous “Fiscal Cancer” After Voting for Pelosi’s Health Care Bill

  
  Blue Collar Muse — Authority: 598
  Readers who liked this post also enjoyed: Tennessee House Dems on Obamacare Keep the Pressure on Your Democrat!! TN’s Jim Cooper on Health Care on Ralph Bristol’s Radio TownHall Dems Miss the “Stop Digging When You’re In a Hole” Memo
  5 days ago

• Major League Reckoning

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 627
  Now there’s a real decoupling. Friday’s unemployment figures came out in America. They showed that 8.2 million Americans have lost their job since the GFC began in 2007. The official unemployment rate (the one that under-measures actual unemployment) is at 10.2% and growing. Stocks rallied on this news. ...
  5 days ago

• When the Borrowers Stop Borrowing

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 627
  The Dow moved up 17 points on Friday, leaving it above the 10,000 mark. Gold rose too – it is at a new record high, only $5 below $1,100. According to the news reports, the US economy is ‘growing’ again. Yes, that’s the official storyline. But wait, what kind of growth is this? David Rosenberg: “All we ...
  6 days ago

• Coburn to Senate: You Actually Have to Pay For These Bills

  
  Big Government — Authority: 811
  The Democrats are holding a  press conference at this afternoon to blast Senator Tom Coburn’s demand that new programs and increased spending approved by Congress be paid for. At issue is a  veterans bill that the Senators would like to pass and issue press releases praising themselves for supporting over ...
  6 days ago

• The Fed & Unintended Consequences

  
  City Lakes Real Estate Blog — Authority: 138
  The Fed, Commodity Prices & Economic RecoveryTwelve hundred miles (give or take) from Wall Street, me thinks that a not-so virtuous cycle has emerged regarding the governments various and sundry efforts to nurse the economy back to health.The dynamic goes something like this:Step 1: the Federal Reserve and ...
  6 days ago

• The Problems With “Printing Your Way out of Debt”

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 627
  Governments are running breathtaking deficits…and accumulating alarming debts. Japan has a national debt of nearly 200% of its GDP. Where did that debt come from? It came from 20 years of trying to buy its way out of a slump with borrowed money. Of course, it didn’t work. But now, Britain and America are following ...
  1 week ago

• Just how dangerous are stimulus-driven deficits in the long run?

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 797
  Filed under: Economy Most mainstream academic and government economists -- elites, we should note, who are generally well-protected from the vagaries of the real world -- are united in the view that massive federal deficits to fund stimulus programs are not just a good thing but a necessary thing. Economist J. ...
  1 week ago

• Friday Night Cool Down Lap

  
  Economic Disconnect — Authority: 127
  Another busy week and perhaps the most news filled week in a while. At least things are not boring. A few topics and then some relax time. For those of you still stopping in (all 3 of you, LOL) enjoy the show. Unemployment Numbers Mean More Easy Money and Delayed Exit Strategy It seems the "exit strategy" talk will ...
  1 week ago

• Important News - Nov. 06

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 450
  Panic: Unemployment rate already at 20%!!! Not to scare you, but the situation is actually worse than it seems. Over the years, the government has changed the way it counts the unemployed. An example of this is the criticized Birth-Death Model which was added in 2000. The model is designed to account for the ...
  1 week ago

• Deep cuts will hurt

  
  ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC — Authority: 540
  Here’s a piece originally published in Society Guardian today: National debate has undergone a seamless change. Only a few months ago, talk was of a recession caused by a financial crash, building a greener economy less reliant on finance and dealing with unemployment. Now the public sector deficit is the big ...
  1 week ago

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