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Category: US Debt

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Interest-Rates

Monday, April 04, 2011

U.S. Will Default on Its Debt / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: DailyWealth

Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: "I am confident that this country will default on its debt," Bill Gross wrote this week.

Bill Gross is not some anti-American crackpot... quite the contrary.

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Interest-Rates

Saturday, April 02, 2011

Picture Yourself as a Loan Officer, and Uncle Sam Wants a Loan / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: Richard_Shaw

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticlePicture yourself as a loan officer for a moment.

Then imagine a very nice and sincere, but obviously clueless, person comes to you and says, my husband and I earn $100,000 per year, and we have found the home of our dreams with everything we have always wanted. It's price is $3.5 million, and I am here to request a mortgage in that amount from you.

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Politics

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Solution to the U.S. Budget Crisis: Keeping the State's Money in the State / Politics / US Debt

By: Ellen_Brown

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleCut spending, raise taxes, sell off public assets – these are the unsatisfactory solutions being debated across the nation; but the budget crises now being suffered by nearly all the states did not arise from too much spending or too little taxation. They arose from a credit freeze on Wall Street. In the wake of the 2009 financial market collapse, banks curtailed their lending more sharply than in any year since 1942, driving massive unemployment and causing local tax revenues to plummet.

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Interest-Rates

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Fed Policy: Underwrite Mortgages to Underwrite the Treasury / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis

In a little known program to which few have been paying attention, the US Treasury is attempting to unwind positions it inherited from a very expensive bailout of government-sponsored entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. 

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Interest-Rates

Monday, March 14, 2011

The Exponentiality of Municipal Costs (and Some Advice for Endowments and Foundations) / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: Fred_Sheehan

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleThe word in social media is "exponentiality" of growth. Webster's, American Heritage, and Microsoft Word do not acknowledge it, I don't know how to spell it, but this path-breaking discussion of rising municipal costs deserves a word from the future.

The pension costs of states and municipalities in years hence are often stated in a calculation of future liabilities. For instance, the future obligations of state and municipal pension funds are calculated (in frequently cited studies) at between $1.5 trillion to $3.5 trillion.

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Interest-Rates

Monday, March 14, 2011

U.S. Debt and Deficits Ensure Violent Dollar Sell-Off Ahead / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: LewRockwell

Diamond Rated - Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleDavid Stockman writes: The Triumph of Crony Capitalism occurred on October 3rd 2008. The event was the enactment of TARP – the single greatest economic policy abomination since the 1930s or perhaps ever.

Like most other quantum leaps in statist intervention, the Wall Street bailout was justified as a last resort exercise in breaking the rules to save the system. In the immortal words of George W. Bush, our most economically befuddled President since FDR, "I’ve abandoned free market principles in order to save the free market system."

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Interest-Rates

Monday, March 07, 2011

What's Wrong with Government Debt / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: Robert_Murphy

The news abounds with arguments and even riots over so-called austerity measures. Whether in the Middle East, Europe, or even certain US states, the public is realizing just how deep a hole various governments have dug for themselves. In this article I'll outline Uncle Sam's position and then explain why it's such a problem.

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Interest-Rates

Friday, March 04, 2011

Fed Emperor Nakedly Monetizing Debt, Desperately Seeking Stability / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: Jesse

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleThe Fed is monetizing debt, colloquially known as 'printing money.'

At this point you either understand this or you do not,  and if not it is probably because you will not to do so.  Read full article... Read full article...

 


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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Municipal Bond Market Score Card / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: Fred_Sheehan

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleMeredith Whitney has kicked up a storm with her 600-page, municipal-bond report. She was one of the first analysts on Wall Street who warned the banks were going to topple well before they toppled. (Standard & Poor's downgraded Bear Stearns three notches - to BBB - on March 14, 2008, two days before J.P. Morgan acquired Bear's carcass.) Whitney told 60 Minutes on December 19, 2010: "You could see...50 to 100 sizable [municipal] defaults.... This will amount to hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of defaults." The municipal bond CABAL (issuers, fund managers, analysts, the municipalities) denounced Whitney and her predictions.

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Interest-Rates

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Unsustainable and Simply Unpayayable Global Sovereign Public Debt / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: Bob_Chapman

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticlePublic debt has become a problem worldwide. What is becoming more and more evident is that it is unsustainable and simply unpayable. It could be compared to a giant Ponzi scheme. We see no meaningful debt reductions thus, government will have to raise taxes, which will further suppress the economy, or people and companies will be forced to buy such bonds, or perhaps pension and retirement funds will be seized to continue the game for a while longer.

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Interest-Rates

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Sustainable Shortfalls on Unsustainable Debt, Buy Gold / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: Richard_Daughty

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleFrom the Economic Collapse Blog, an essay I found at LewRockwell.com, we learn the horrifying news that the United States Census Bureau has, for some reason, probably after spending millions and billions of dollars and countless man-hours, found out that there are approximately 1.5 billion credit cards in use in the United States, although what this has to do with the Census Bureau is beyond me, except that they are probably trying to justify their existence in light of looming budget cuts in light of a collapsing economy.

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Interest-Rates

Thursday, February 17, 2011

US Budget Expenditures - CBO Long Term Outlook / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: Jesse

Obviously one can question their growth assumptions, and therefore tax revenue assumptions.

However bear in mind that this chart is for the expenditures as a percentage of GDP, and is therefore tied to the growth.

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Politics

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Don't Be Fooled By Washington's U.S. Debt Ceiling Debate / Politics / US Debt

By: Money_Morning

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleMartin Hutchinson writes: I have to tell you that - as a former international merchant banker - I want to laugh out loud when I hear the dire predictions of how the United States will have to default if Congress doesn't raise the nation's debt ceiling.

With a little Wall Street-style creative financing - even when the government's outstanding debt level reaches the official limit of $14.3 trillion sometime around the end of March - there's no reason why the country can't go on borrowing as if nothing has changed.

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Politics

Monday, February 14, 2011

Obama to Propose More than $1 Trillion in U.S. Budget Deficit Reduction / Politics / US Debt

By: Global_Research

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticlePatrick Martin writes: The Obama administration will release a federal budget today for the fiscal year beginning October 1 that cuts the total federal deficit by as much as $1.1 trillion over the next decade, two thirds of it through cuts in domestic spending, according to press reports over the weekend.

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Interest-Rates

Sunday, February 13, 2011

China Syndrome Debt Bubbleomics And Crude Oil / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: Andrew_Butter

Diamond Rated - Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleAlong with the emergence of the much heralded “Green Shoots” that must by now be turning into roses (?), has come the sinking realization that (a) just piling debt on debt is not a long-term solution to anything, and that (b) perhaps there might have been more “wrong” under the blanket of mark to market (when markets were in a bubble), and mark to fantasy when they crashed, than can be swept under the carpet forever; like perhaps something structural?

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Interest-Rates

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

U.S. Debt, Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lender / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: Casey_Research

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleTerry Coxon, The Casey Report writes: It was Otto von Bismarck who explained that “politics is the art of the possible.” We can thank him for that much, but he didn’t tell the whole story. I’ll give you the rest of it. Politics is the art of the possible fictions you can get away with.

Politics is mostly dissembling, and the dissembling is mostly about dodging personal responsibility for the messes governments make. It works out that way because making messes is most of what governments do. So when we ponder how the U.S. government will go about defaulting on its debts, a good way to approach the question is to consider how a default might be presented.

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Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Ben Bernanke and The Confidence Men / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: Jeff_Berwick

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleBarack Obama, Ben Bernanke and other government officials always talk about the importance of "confidence" to the economy. But that is because they are confidence men (aka. conmen) playing a confidence game (congame).

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Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Chinese Puzzle, U.S. Debt Holdings / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: Professor_Emeritus

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticlePosition papers of professorfekete #4, February 7, 2011

There is really just one question about China, the Western mindset's "enigma wrapped in mystery". How could the Chinese have made the colossal mistake of investing their hard-earned savings in the debt of the U.S. government -- to the tune of $ 1 trillion, the largest sum one country has ever loaned another in all history. (There is only one other puzzle greater than this: How could the U.S. government in good faith allow its debt to accumulate in Chinese hands? But we leave that question for another occasion to discuss.) U.S. debt is easy to buy but hard to get rid of. The harder, the larger are the sums involved.

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Politics

Friday, February 04, 2011

The U.S. Government Budget Deficit Scam / Politics / US Debt

By: Richard_Daughty

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleI am constantly amazed at the number of people who think that a budget deficit is the same thing as the total federal deficit, which it ain't.

Actually, I remember one time early in my career where I was so desperate to cover up the results of my own incompetence that I tried to exploit this confusion with a "budget deficit" scam of my own, and it seemed to work for almost a month!

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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Debt and Deficits, “The New Humpty Dumpty” / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: Andy_Sutton

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleIrony is a wonderful thing sometimes. It has a habit of framing things exactly the way they need to be framed. Unfortunately, this is a knife that cuts both ways and irony sometimes points out awful realities. I am not a political animal per se, but I find it incredibly ironic how the avalanche of bad news on the deficit, Social Security, and essentially most of the things wrong with our economy was saved until after Tuesday’s SOTU speech. Make no mistake, this has happened before, and each time I find the timing to be absolutely incredible. It is very clear at least at this point that our leaders prefer to pay lip service to the idea of reducing the deficit rather than actually trying to rectify the situation. I say this because, with very few exceptions, the rhetoric centers around a silver bullet solution that will allow programs and spending to remain pretty much on the same path as what got us here, but at the same time, ‘fixing’ things.

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