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• Soveriegn Debt: The Next Bubble

  
  Jutia Group — Authority: 581
  WSJ: If you’re looking for one global risk to really worry about, look no further than the mountain of debt accumulated by governments in their efforts to support domestic economies. Moody’s Investors Service says there’s $49.5 trillion of sovereign debt outstanding — and this week, ratings firms, and ...
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• Where Have the Virgin Deficit Slayers Gone? Or Mr. Rubin, Have You Been ‘Crowded Out?’

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  Today, Politio reported the the Congressional Democrat Leadership will increase the debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion. There was a time, in Democrat land, that Robert Rubin was thought to be an oracle. During the Clinton years, the Treasury Secretary was so highly regarded that his economic plans were dubbed Rubinomics. ...
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• Second "stimulus" being pushed by Obama

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 535
  Just after a budget deficit of $1.4 billion and starting off the new fiscal year $292 billion in the red, President Barack Obama is planning to spend more money with the false hope of pulling us out of the recession: President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, ...
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• ‘Tis the Season to Engage in Folly!

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 459
  By John W. Lillpop Once again, America’s 44th president and worst-ever electoral miscue has ruptured the incredulity index with another egregious example of “acting stupidly” while in power. Less than a month ago, the president visited the Great Wall of China and made it clear that spending too much money ...
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• Will ObamaCare Cover Pre-existing Presidential Dementia?

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 459
  By John W. Lillpop Once again, America’s 44th president and worst-ever electoral miscue has ruptured the incredulity index with another egregious example of “acting stupidly” whilst in power. Less than a month ago, the president visited the Great Wall of China and made it clear that spending too much money ...
  3 days ago

• FY-2010 Deficit Skyrockets

  
  Axis of Right — Authority: 133
  Fiscal Year 2009 saw unprecedented spending and unprecedented deficits as a result of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and Obama’s Stimulus bill.  That, along with a bloated Democrat budget, brought the total deficit for FY-2009 to $1.4 trillion (that’s one trillion, four hundred billion dollars ).  ...
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• The Buck Stops Where?

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 565
  by John Browne, Senior Market Strategist, Euro Pacific Capital Last week, we witnessed Ben Bernanke’s Senate confirmation hearings for a second term as Fed Chairman. The air was thick with hypocrisy, as Senators vied with each other to cast blame on the Fed Chairman for the fiscal mistakes of the Congress.  As ...
  3 days ago

• Government spends, debt grows

  
  Community.GJSentinel.com — Authority: 142
  I have had enough of presidents and politicians (past and current) taking away my freedoms, shoving bailouts, health care, cap-and-trade and stimulus packages down our throats and taxing us for their fiscal irresponsibility. I believe we do have problems that need to be investigated by experts. Our government is not ...
  4 days ago

• Important News - Dec. 07

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  Quarter Of Workforce Could Could End Up Becoming Temps Temporary workers could constitute up to 25% of the workforce in a few years. Contract employees who sign on with a firm for several weeks or months constitute about 8% of the workforce. Temps can easily be let go and can cost up to 30% less than regular ...
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• The Debt Economy

  
  Opinion Forum — Authority: 134
  By Brianna Aubin I remember once that I was writing a comment to an online newspaper article when I needed to reference the national debt figure, so I went surfing for one of the debt clock websites.  I promptly found one of those Java clocks that update the debt by the second, and used the number as a ...
  5 days ago

• Morning Bell: The Definition of Economic Insanity

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  In January 2008, the United States economy employed 138.1 million people and the unemployment rate stood at 4.9%. But the powers in Washington thought deficit spending could boost a slowing economy, so Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) passed and President George Bush signed a $168 billion economic stimulus bill made up of ...
  6 days ago

• President’s New Year’s Resolution? LOL

  
  A Good Choice . . . — Authority: 137
  Bumper sticker found at WND .com “(in regard to the president’s recent trip to China) . . . President ( Barry Soetoro a/k/a Barack ) Obama assured Asian nations that U.S. borrowing will not spiral out of control. “Memo to President ( Soetoro , alias) Obama : Too late!” - - NewsBusted , ...
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• Pawlenty: Obama’s ‘Ponzi scheme’ (Politico)

  
  enUws — Authority: 466
  Politico – Tim Pawlenty speaks out about Obama’s deficit spending on Fox. Read more: (Politico)"> (Politico)">Pawlenty: Obama’s ‘Ponzi scheme’ (Politico)
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• The Great Depression and the Current Recession–Robert Higgs–Videos

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 474
    The Great Depression and the Current Recession (Part 1 of 9) The Great Depression and the Current Recession (Part 2 of 9) The Great Depression and the Current Recession (Part 3 of 9) The Great Depression and the Current Recession (Part 4 of 9) The Great Depression and the Current ...
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• Paying for War

  
  A Philosopher's Blog — Authority: 129
  In addition to being hell, war is also expensive. The US has dumped about $1 trillion into the Afghanistan and Iraq wars already and current plans are to keep shoveling cash and lives into these pits. Naturally, the money to pay for the wars has to come from somewhere. Like most federal spending, much of ...
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• California’s Revenue Problem – Educators Should Demand Economic Growth Not Tax Increases

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  In what is becoming a perennial affair, the California budget deficit is projected to be over $21 billion in the coming year – including a $6 billion hangover from this year.  With the same degree of regularity, in pursuit of stable education funding (a good idea), educators in California are calling for tax rate ...
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• Euro Companies Face $1.5 Trillion Funding Shortfall in 2010

  
  Veritas Vos Liberabit — Authority: 464
  Ambrose Evan Pritchard  reports S&P says European companies face $1.5 trillion funding shortfall next year “This is definitely a threat on the horizon,” said Blaise Ganguin, the agency’s European credit chief. Some 75 companies large enough to be rated face likely default in 2010 as the slow-burn ...
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• And The Prize for the Worst Economist Goes To …

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  Well, it’s hard to choose these days. The resurgence of Keynesian economics shows how fragile and insecure economists are in general. They are, of course, important exceptions. But while I have a special dark place in my economist heart for the New York Times ‘ columnist Paul Krugman, I think today the prize ...
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• Howard Davidowitz: "We Are On A Death March!" "We Are Japan!"

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Many economists draw comparisons between the United States now and Japan in 1990. For those who arent familiar with Japans recent economic history, this is not a good thing. Japans stock market peaked in 1989 at about 40,000. It now trades around a quarter of that level, or 10,000. GDP, meanwhile, has barely grown at ...
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• Hoyer: No to the War Surtax

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  Echoing the recent message from Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters today that the middle of an employment crisis is no time to be slapping people with a new tax to fund the war in Afghanistan. I am not supporting it at this point in time, but I do support [the] ...
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