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• Dems to lift debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion, fear 2010 backlash (Politico)

  
  enUws — Authority: 466
  Politico – Democrats prepare to raise the federal debt ceiling by as much as $1.8T before New Year’s. Here is the original: (Politico)"> (Politico)">Dems to lift debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion, fear 2010 backlash (Politico)
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• Dems to lift debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion, fear 2010 backlash

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Dems to lift debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion, fear 2010 backlash By: David Rogers December 9, 2009 07:24 PM EST In a bold but risky year-end strategy, Democrats are preparing to raise the federal debt ceiling by as much as $1.8 trillion before New Year’s rather than have to face the issue again prior to the 2010 ...
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• 10 ways to protect yourself in a financial crisis – Citizen

  
  How to Get Out of Debt - Free Help — Authority: 157
  NEW YORK (AP) _ Bank foreclosures. A volatile job market. The rollercoaster Dow. This may be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, but we can do more than wait for the federal government to bail us out. Here are 10 things you can do ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit GetOutOfDebt.org for ...
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• U.S. Could Lose AAA Credit Rating

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 540
  On a day when President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and said the nation must continue to “spend our way out of this recession,” a credit rating agency warned that the United States could lose its AAA credit rating. Ken Sweet wrote on the FOX Business website this morning: Credit ...
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• CBO Monthly Budget Review, November 2009

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  On Friday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Monthly Budget Review (MBR) for November. With the first two months of the fiscal year behind us, CBO found that the government added $292 billion to the federal debt. Someone let Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) and the rest of the recently converted budget hawks ...
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• Fight Back Against Wealth Destruction

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 141
  By Frank Holmes CEO and Chief Investment Officer, US Global Investors A bill taking shape in the U.S. House would hurt you by imposing a transaction tax on hard working middle-class Americans who buy and sell stocks, bonds and other financial instruments. The sponsors say this tax would raise $150 billion a year ...
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• Pomeroy Estate Tax Bill Passes House

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  As expected, the House brought up the Pomeroy estate tax bill this afternoon, and the legislation passed by a narrow score of 225 to 200. The bill passed mainly along partisan lines, but 26 Democrats joined the Republican caucus in opposition to the measure. Nine House members did not vote. With passage by the ...
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• Obama Job Summit: Another Manufacturer Opts Out of U.S.A.

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  On November 11, David N. Farr, Chairman, CEO and President of Emerson Electric Co., announced at the Baird 2009 Industrial Conference in Chicago that President Obama has succeeded in chasing his multi-billion dollar industry right out of the U.S.A. Why? Onerous regulation, high taxes, and the over $1 trillion Obama ...
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• All during the stock rally, we have heard the dollar is set to rally and yet, we get a bump up and then a new low.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  Why have the charts, wedge patterns, sentiment, expert analysts been wrong? First, I suppose at some time there will be a rally of significance but, it may not be soon. It could be that those who say the FED is deliberately devaluing the dollar 50% gradually are right. Naturally, the FED can’t say this as it would ...
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• House Set to Vote on Pomeroy Estate Tax Bill

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  The House plans to take up estate tax reform as early as tomorrow with a vote on Rep. Earl Pomeroys (D-ND) Permanent Estate Tax Relief for Families, Farmers, and Small Businesses Act of 2009 (H.R. 4154). The Pomeroy bill would permanently extend current estate tax law at a $7 million exemption for couples at a 45 ...
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• A Healthcare Reform Budget Deficit Opinion Poll

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 130
  Deficit Neutral, or Not [You Decide]By Ann Miller; RN, MHA[Executive Director]President Barack H. Obama just promised not to sign any health reform legislation that increases the federal deficit. This promise recognizes the rising public concern about a fiscal trend that, if left unchecked, could leave us with $19 ...
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• On the Deficit, Pelosi Gets It

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  Just before the Thanksgiving break, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), during a conference call with reporters, trumpeted the need for more job-creating legislation in spite of the growing deficit, and, thereby, continued to throw cold water on some congressional members aspirations to begin tackling the countrys debt. ...
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• If you truely don’t believe that inflation is purely a money supply phenomenon…..answer yourself this one simple question:

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  What do you think will happen to consumer prices if the Fed printed $100 trillion dollars overnight, and in one fell swoop….paid off all outstanding Federal debt….covered all pending liabilities for social security and medicare….and has enough left over to buy every American family a respectable home? Do you ...
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• Dollar Decline Due to Government Debt or Total Debt?

  
  Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog — Authority: 121
  With the dollar declining sharply, many are focused on the issue now. And the most common culprit for blame seems to be the federal debt. While I agree the dollar is likely to fall, the deficit doesn’t seem like the main reason, to me. The federal debt is large and growing quickly, which is a problem. But still the ...
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• America Needs More Jobs, Not More Debt

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  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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• The party of federal debt and the path to sustainability

  
  xpostfactoid — Authority: 494
  Lest anyone forget that Republicans have for a generation been the party of federal debt, a timely reminder from Martin Wolf: In the case of the US, 1.8 percentage points of a 6.5 percentage point deterioration will be due to such measures. Most of the change is structural: the levels of GDP and fiscal revenue will ...
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• The Economist Magazine on Why We Have to Be Biased Toward Tax Increases in the Short Term

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 464
  The cover story in this week’s Economist magazine discusses “dealing with America’s fiscal hole.” The “hole” is described not as something we’ll have to dig ourselves out of in the far-off future , but something we’re already too far in now .  (The story quotes Bill Gale and Alan ...
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• What if They Stop Buying our Debt?

  
  Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks — Authority: 521
  Doug Hornig, senior prognosticator at The Casey Report , analyzes the alarming trend of U.S. federal debt and its future implications. “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers,” said Blanche DuBois, in the final words of the play A Streetcar Named Desire. Well, don’t we all. Many citizens ...
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• Obama’s Past Due Epiphany on Federal Debt

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 459
  By John W. Lillpop Consistent with his governing philosophy of accepting responsibility for nothing, President Obama is speaking out against soaring deficits as though he were an innocent bystander as reckless spending pushes America to the brink of being a third-world, failed state. As reported, in part, at ...
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• Debt – the fall of the U.S. economic empire

  
  Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks — Authority: 521
  The Daily Reckoning ’s Puru Saxena examines the ends of U.S. debt and the shifting economic balance of world power to China. Puru Saxena The Daily Reckoning The 19th century belonged to Britain, the 20th century belonged to America and in the 21st century, China will rule the business world. Whether you like it ...
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