May 23, 2016 – Longtime Sharp VodkaPundit Readers™ are well-informed already about the United States’ addiction to debt and cheap money, and our coming … Today’s China is also the world’s manufactory of first resort for consumer goods, and Chinese investments in infrastructure and resources…

Jun 14, 2016 – WASHINGTON – Hilary Shelton, the director of the NAACP’s Washington Bureau, welcomed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposal … “The Consumer Bureau is proposing strong protections aimed at ending payday debt traps. … “The short of it is it would certainly limit the number of access to predatory loans that are debt trapping, but in essence it also…

Jul 6, 2016 – A source from the debt-buying industry told PJ Media that this was violation of regulations. … Retired University of Cincinnati Professor Mary Franklin told Consumer Reports that debt collectors threatened to garnish her disability … for the National Consumer Law Center.…

Feb 4, 2015 – “Runaway spending habits have bred excessive deficits and incredible debt,” Enzi said. … “As we meet this morning, our Federal debt totals over $18 trillion. Every man, woman, and child owes $56,000 on that debt.  … Enzi vowed Congress will “act to control the spending, reduce the deficits and end the debt.…

Mar 6, 2015 – Consumer spending is down, initial jobless claims are up, and Marc Cuban says we’re in a tech bubble “far worse” the the DotCom Bubble … The difference between the last two bubbles and today is, we weren’t already sitting on $18,000,000,000,000 worth of debt, interest…

Mar 17, 2015 – If you’ll recall, it was just last week I speculated that the declines in consumer spending, for three months running and despite … moderate incomes, simply do not have the resources to pay their deductibles and will either have to put off care or incur medical debt … It’s no wonder that collections for medical debt represent half of all bill collections.…

Feb 23, 2017 – “Everybody in this room knows that Social Security hasn’t added a nickel to the debt. … breaks for billionaires and the war in Iraq and an inflated military budget that in fact led to the high deficits and the national debt … insurance amount” for qualified beneficiaries starting in 2021 and “revise computation of cost-of-living adjustments to use the Consumer…

Mar 16, 2017 – Meals on Wheels America says one in six senior Americans “struggles with hunger,” and their consumer base consists of seniors who receive … We’re $20 trillion in debt. We’re going to spend money. We’re going to spend a lot of money.…

May 17, 2017 – In that announcement, the campaign declared, “After medical complications following surgery, Rob Quist got into debt. … Quist paid off his debt, but he believes no one should ever face bankruptcy just because they get sick.” … The most recent poll, from Google Consumer Surveys, found Quist ahead of Gianforte, with 49 percent to the Republican’s 42 percent.…

Jul 11, 2017 – healthcare in the next week or two, between now and the end of the fiscal year, we only have 31 working days left and we have the debt … are made including allowing people to use pre-tax dollars from health savings accounts to pay premiums as well as adopting the “consumer…

Jul 7, 2017 – responsible for secular stagnation, namely demography, education, inequality, globalization, energy/environment, and the overhang of consumer … and government debt. … These four barriers to growth are demographics, education, inequality, and government debt.…

Jul 23, 2017 – What is the moral hazard in forgiving student loan debt? … debt burden, surpassing auto and credit card debt and trailing only mortgage debt. … Borrowers With Student Loan Debt: 44.2 million Student Loan Delinquency Or Default Rate: 11.2% Total Increase In Student Loan Debt…

Jul 22, 2017 – Don’t want to go into debt over that irresistible offer Alexa just chirped to you? Fuhgeddaboutitt. … The FTC is probing a complaint brought by the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, which looked at some 1,000 products on Amazon’s website … Consumer Watchdog argued that the deceptive list prices make Amazon prices look like a bargain, and asked the FTC to stop Amazon from…

Aug 20, 2016 – model of state capitalism that lives off of commodities exports —redistributing revenues among the population and stimulating consumer … captures the mood of leftist cohort that has repeatedly turned the corner expecting to find a Worker’s Paradise only to find Student Debt…

Apr 29, 2015 – Don’t be fooled by those “strong” numbers from Q3 and Q4 of last year — they were mostly the result of a surge in consumer spending … the extent that demand is growing at all in the world economy, it seems again to be almost entirely dependent on rising levels of debt … A crisis caused by too much debt has been fought with even more of the stuff.…

May 5, 2015 – provision in state law making it illegal for companies to record all cellphone conversations without the express consent of the consumer … The bill was opposed by numerous advocates for consumers and seniors, including the Consumer Federation of California and the American … privacy, it is wrong to be considering rolling back an important privacy law,” said Richard Holober, executive director of the Consumer…

Oct 25, 2016 – Federal debt was only 30% of GDP in 1979 (not counting unfunded entitlements), but rose to 110% in 2015. … The former technological vanguard, though, has turned into a group of stable consumer monopolies.…

Nov 11, 2016 – protectionism that inflate prices and give consumers fewer choices, to tax cuts that bring companies back, create jobs, and preserve low consumer … During the campaign, Trump didn’t really address the debt and spending, and when he did, he actually advocated more borrowing because…

Nov 28, 2016 – This explains why the policy is an attack on the Indian way of doing business: Much of India’s cash-based consumer transactions have … Last year, our federal government spent $223 billion, or 6 percent of all discretionary spending, on debt interest payments. … On our current track, we will spend more on debt interest than we do on our national defense within ten years.…

Jan 18, 2018 – Mick Mulvaney, former member of Congress who now heads up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), just forced an epidemic … They aren’t trying to put the consumer in a “debt trap.” … The consumer does it himself due to a failure to understand what he is signing.…

Apr 10, 2018 – Most of this growth is driven by consumer spending and business investment, but federal spending also contributes a significant amount … As deficits accumulate, debt held by the public rises from 78 percent of GDP, or $16 trillion at the end of 2018 to 96 percent of GDP…

Mar 18, 2020 – Surveys show that Americans carry too much debt and don’t have much savings to help weather a crisis. … There are a bunch of great courses out there on how to create a proper household budget and stop relying on consumer debt to pay for … Debt is slavery, and financial freedom is one of the most empowering things a family can learn.…

Mar 13, 2020 – Demand for US corporate debt is likely to be more restrained, the cost of debt is likely to be higher, and the ability of corporations … The first is tech companies with strong market positions, steady top-line growth and little debt. … I haven’t seen an improvement in the unsecured debt of retail or office REITs.…

Apr 3, 2020 – Apply the logic to credit card debt, auto loans, and things start to break down quickly. All that is just the consumer side. … If the customers stop coming in, the lease/credit/debt payments stack up quickly. … Essentially, as long as we’re stuck at home, debt takes a holiday, too.…

Apr 15, 2020 – What the economy needs, and what I proposed almost two weeks ago, is a debt moratorium [VIP link] for the duration of the Wuhan-virus … When the Wuhan virus struck, it wasn’t like the 2007-08 financial panic, which suppressed consumer demand primarily through foreclosures … Years ago, the New York State Consumer Protection Board looked into Lesko’s promises of “Free Money to Pay Your Bills,” and found them…