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• Euro Companies Face $1.5 Trillion Funding Shortfall in 2010

  
  Veritas Vos Liberabit — Authority: 472
  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 Worse Economist Goes To …

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  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 Krugamn, 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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• Within the next 12 months, the U.S. Treasury will have to refinance $2 trillion in short-term debt.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  A must read from The Market Oracle : Run on the U.S. Dollar ….Soon Porter Stansberry writes: It’s one of those numbers that’s so unbelievable you have to actually think about it for a while… Within the next 12 months, the U.S. Treasury will have to refinance $2 trillion in short-term debt. And that’s ...
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• Run on the U.S. Dollar ….Soon

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Porter Stansberry writes: Its one of those numbers thats so unbelievable you have to actually think about it for a while... Within the next 12 months, the U.S. Treasury will have to refinance $2 trillion in short-term debt. And thats not counting any additional deficit spending, which is estimated to be around $1.5 ...
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• Chart of the Day: Who is to blame for FY 2009 deficits?

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 562
  Dan Mitchell points out that the deficits from FY 2009 are almost entirely on George W. Bush, not Barack Obama. According to Mitchell, spending added by Obama only increased the budget by “amounted to just a tiny percentage of the FY2009 total – about $140 billion out of a $3.5 trillion budget.”
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• Decline of the City (and) State

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 753
  The problem with the Greeks was ultimately their love of conflict.  If anything could be said of the fall of the city-state generally it would be that more than a hundred years of effectively unending warfare (rainy season, fighting season, rainy season, fighting season, lather, rinse, repeat) finally exhausted the ...
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• The Insanity of Deficit Spending and the National Debt

  
  The Western Experience — Authority: 473
  by MikeDuring my daily ritual of abuse–reading “high-brow” Progressive thought– I came across an article on The Nation by William Greider, titled “In the Shadow of Hoover.” A lengthy essay in which President Obama is painted as standing in the shadow of the man who is fairly, or unfairly, blamed for ...
  5 days ago

• Bankruptcy of the America is now certain

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 454
  Its one of those numbers thats so unbelievable you have to actually think about it for a while... Within the next 12 months, the U.S. Treasury will have to refinance $2 trillion in short-term debt. And thats not counting any additional deficit... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in for ...
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• Blue Dogs are not ficsal conservatives

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 562
  We often hear Blue Dog Democrats referred to as “fiscal conservatives” and we’re told about their concerns about the budget deficits.The guys over at National Taxpayers Union have put together a spreadsheet showing how Blue Dogs or otherwise vulnerable districts have voted on TARP, the auto bailout, the ...
  5 days ago

• Working on Work

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 624
  The LA Times has an article up today about a multibillion-dollar jobs bill in the works in Congress. Senators Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.) are working on the bill in the Senate.  It’s not clear from this article who has the ball in the House, but it appears that there’s interest in ...
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• Howard Dean: ObamaCare is a trillion dollar bailout

  
  Reformed Chicks Blabbing — Authority: 136
  Pretty shocking honest assessment by Dean of the bills currently before Congress. Hes right that there isnt any real reform in either of the bills. ( via and Instapundit ) Read this post »
  6 days ago

• Democrats Work On Multibillion-Dollar Jobs Package

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Democrats Work On Multibillion-Dollar Jobs Package Lawmakers say theyre moving fast to get a job-creation bill to Obama by January. Its unclear how much of the effort would be funded with deficit spending. Peter Nicholas November 26, 2009 Reporting from Washington - Troubled by the rising jobless rate, President Obama ...
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• What Dubai Says About Capitalism: Not Much

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 753
  You sort of just knew Dubai was going to implode.  Or if you didnt, you sure should have. Bloomberg reports: Dubai is shaking investor confidence across the Persian Gulf after its proposal to delay debt payments risked triggering the biggest sovereign default since Argentina in 2001.   The cost of ...
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• Liberals are idiots

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 487
  Why do liberals - claimers of all government is good, proponents of the government must be the first and only solution to all supposed problems - seem to think that the government is some kind of Fortune 500 business with an endless stream of cash? Such thinking is void of logic and common sense. But thats liberal ...
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• Eight Years Later, Still No Appetite to Share the Burden of War Funding

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  Here’s an interesting response from Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Finance Committee, when asked by a reporter this morning whether Congress intends to pay for the wars its launched, or continue to borrow the money and pile onto federal deficits. Defending America is a number one ...
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• America Needs More Jobs, Not More Debt

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  Last week, as the national debt topped $12 trillion for the first time in U.S. history, one influential policymaker said, “I think it is important, though, to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt … that at some point, people could lose confidence in the U.S. economy in a way that could actually lead to a ...
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• Saturday Night Live Lampoons Obama

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 592
  Saturday Night Live lampoons Barack Obama and his reckless and gargantuan, federal government spending and debt mongering in their recent skit of a joint press conference with Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao, “China Wants Its Money Back”:
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• Flashback: The Night The Clocks & Scoreboard Stood Still

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 609
  Six years ago yesterday , the U.S. House of Representatives passed a controversial and still-unfunded Medicare prescription-drug bill with an historic and extremely controversial early morning vote. At least three of Missouris Representatives -- Roy Blunt , Jo Ann Emerson and Todd Akin -- played key roles in the ...
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