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Nov 19th, 2009 |
By Doug Hornig |
Category: Featured, Financial News
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 probably still cling to the old saw that public debt doesn’t matter because “we owe it to ourselves.” Wrong. Debt always matters. And as for whom we owe it to, it is a lot of kind (or, at least, not yet unkind) strangers.
Tags: Alarming Trend, Blanche Dubois, Buc, Debt Holders, Doug Hornig, Federal Debt, Government Debt, International Investors, Kindness Of Strangers, National Debt, Prognosticator, public debt, Reserve Currency, Source Of Funds, Streetcar Named Desire, Term Bonds, Trade Surpluses, Treasuries, Treasury Auctions, Vote Of No Confidence, Yield Curve
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Aug 18th, 2009 |
By Joel Bowman |
Category: Politics & Economics
The first public retirement pension scheme was created by Otto von Bismarck in 1880 Germany. Fifty years later, during the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt followed suit in the United States. As we’ve seen, the number of people expected to reach the retirement age of 65 was not considered to pose a threat to future funding.
Tags: Addison Wiggin, Baby Boom Generation, Bill Bonner, Capital Markets, Great Depression, public debt, Public Pensions
Posted in Politics & Economics |
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Aug 7th, 2009 |
By Addison Wiggin |
Category: Politics & Economics
Social Security? Not Exactly
Tags: Addison Wiggin, Baby Boomers, Bill Bonner, Cause Friction, credit crisis, economics, Great Depression, inflation, politics, public debt, US economy
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Jul 28th, 2009 |
By Andrew Gordon |
Category: Stock Market Investing
You can’t go back. So don’t assume that as the U.S. and the West recovers, they’ll attract foreign capital just like they did before the recession. It’s a far different landscape now. The easy-credit bubbles are gone. And they’ve left us with a hellacious debt burden.
Tags: Andrew Gordon, Commodity Prices, Energy Resources, EZA, Global Economy, Gold Industry, public debt, US debt
Posted in Stock Market Investing |
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May 12th, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Notes From the Investment Underground
The Treasury is having a tough time hawking US debt these days. This from today’s Financial Times: The 30-year Treasury yield rose to 4.30 per cent on Thursday from 4.10 per cent the day before after bids at the government auction came at lower prices than expected.
Tags: bond crisis, Bond Market, Bond Yields, Debt Bubble, Federal Reserve, Government Bonds, Investor Confidence, public debt, Rbc Capital Markets, TBT, Treasuries, Treasury Rates
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Jan 19th, 2009 |
By Bill Bonner |
Category: Financial News
Christmas may be over, but Obama is keeping the ’season of giving’ going on the Hill…the next bubble will be in public debt… Stock prices are more ‘normal’ than they were a year ago…how many chickens can get in a plane engine? What is bad for GM is bad for America…just when you think you have things figured out, the facts change…and more!
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Bonner, Economic Downturn, Federal Spending, Feds, Gm, Medicaid Costs, public debt, Stock Prices, Unemployment Benefits, World Economy
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Dec 9th, 2008 |
By Sebastian Gomez |
Category: Financial News
The Feds try to reflate the world economy with $10 trillion but at what cost? As predicted in this space, the November payrolls were down a lot more than expected. Economists thought there would be 350,000 layoffs. Instead, the actual number was 200,000 more.
Tags: Bill Bonner, commodities, credit crisis, Employment News, Feds, Foreclosure, inflation, Layoffs, precious metals, public debt, recession, Treasuries, Treasury Bonds, World Economy
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May 22nd, 2008 |
By David Stevenson |
Category: Politics & Economics
Life’s about to get much tougher…for all of us…It’s that R-word again. Loose talk of a ‘recession’ has been bandied about for some time, particularly amongst those of us who keep a keen eye on what’s happening in both the money markets and the high street.
Tags: Asian inflation, Barclays, Barclays Capital, BOE, consumer prices, Debt Levels, Libor, Monetary Policy Committee, Oil Prices, public debt, recession, Uk Plc
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