May 12, 2021 – It destroys real income in order to reduce the real cost of debt service — until creditors revolt, and demand an extra risk premium … There’s worse to come, as higher housing costs feed into consumer prices. … There’s worse to come, as higher housing costs feed into consumer prices.…

May 26, 2021 – Including debt, the value of the deal is $8.45 billion, Amazon said. … I am a big consumer of the streaming services.…

Jun 9, 2021 – An explosive growth in debt financed largely by central banks is likely to lead to higher inflation.” … “Rising oil prices could compound any consumer-driven inflation. Indeed the price of oil has haunted the Fed before. … These will eventually be passed on to the consumer,” the Deutsche Bank authors wrote.…

Apr 2, 2016 – Everyone from China’s central bank to Arab sovereign wealth funds to German provincial-government banks bought American mortgage debt … As the Wall Street Journal reports: CPS, which faces a $1.1 billion budget deficit and billions more in pension debt, already has … Overall, for the first time in this recovery, a broad and significant rise in core economic costs is slowing job creation, real consumer…

May 26, 2016 – , even debt-happy Americans, can absorb. … Corruption, thrift, and a lack of consumer confidence have kept Chinese saving instead of spending. … Xi is determined to ward off the social unrest that will follow the debt blow up.…

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 16, 2018 – guaranteed full employment and income, to the “equal pay” canard, to the abolition of non-government education and the erasing of all debt … (“We demand relief from crushing household, student, and consumer debt.…

Jun 15, 2022 – Related, but exclusively for our VIPs: Here Comes Stagflation Consumer spending drives more than two-thirds of the U.S. economy, … consumers are feeling the pinch of double-digit price hikes for nearly everything, higher borrowing costs, and record credit-card debt…

Jul 7, 2022 – Many are willing to put up with worker shortages now, rather than hire too many employees only to have them idle when consumer demand … Too many are still living at home, not fully employed, often in debt, hooked on social media, video games, or satisfying their appetites…

Aug 30, 2022 – House has largely been silent on the question of who is going to foot the bill for forgiving at least $500 billion in student loan debt … It’s an election year, after all, and why make a big deal out of transferring $10,000-20,000 in debt from some taxpayers to others? … Ordinarily, a consumer getting chiseled by a business like this would raise holy hell.…

Jan 27, 2009 – big-time recession, I think we are seeing the hysterical results”: After two decades of unprecedented economic growth, rampant consumer … spending, and unimaginable borrowing to satisfy our insatiable appetites, we are suddenly going into even larger debt and printing … trillions of dollars in paper money to ensure that someone else after we are gone pays the debt.…

Feb 8, 2009 – very stupid decisions are being bailed out by the population at large”: “A problem that was created by building up of too much debt … will not be solved with yet more debt,” Gov. … economy is “what you see in Russia or Venezuela or Zimbabwe or places like that where it matters not how good your product is to the consumer…

Feb 2, 2009 – Riding a bifurcated wave of prosperity and debt-fueled consumption, the industry has ballooned to outrageously unsupportable proportions … Davidowitz’s retail analysis: Narrow specialties (Sprint’s cellphones) and high prices (Starbucks’ coffee) are tough sells as the consumer…

Feb 18, 2009 – To recap: the ABC Consumer Comfort Index hit its lowest level in over 20 years this month and the Rasmussen Consumer Index also hit … If at the next Treasury auction, the U.S. government finds investors less interested in buying up more and more debt, it won’t matter … But consumer confidence indicators and the stock market are predictive of future behavior.…

Feb 23, 2009 – their stock accounts, and those who sold homes at a loss in some ways subsidized those who walked away from homes and credit card debt … debt, get out of back IRS payments—now! … (Indeed, many making over $100,000 got raises this year while the state remains nearly $40 billion in debt).…

Mar 16, 2009 – Heritage’s observation that TARP will increase government involvement in the corporate boardroom, and it “expands the program into consumer … AIG FP was supported on credit derivatives, some municipal investment agreements, and maturing debt.…

May 6, 2009 – The Congressional Budget Office predicts $9.3 trillion in new debt over the coming decade. … Some useful programs, like those designed to help finance consumer loans, won’t work because of this irresponsible hectoring.…

May 29, 2009 – a particularly nasty recession – one that, given Washington’s current fiscal strategy, is likely to leave us with both a ton of debt … market, along with those of other competitors such as AMD and Samsung – has meant that electronics manufacturers, from servers to consumer…