Results for: consumer debt

Sign "O" the Times
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2014/09/23/sign-o-the-times-130-n245968
– Government debt will be 87 percent of GDP in 2024 instead of the CBO’s estimate of 78 percent. … It won’t keep up with the stronger consumer demand embodied in other forecasts.…
GOP Senators Want Focus on Tax Reform Win Over Flynn
https://pjmedia.com/nicholas-ballasy/2017/12/04/gop-senators-want-focus-tax-reform-win-flynn-n113742
– “We need to be able to show the American public, if we want the consumer confidence to be there, they’re expecting that we get our … Joint Committee on Taxation estimate released Thursday found that the tax reform plan bill would add $1 trillion to the national debt … “Economic growth produces more revenue and that will help to offset this tax cut and actually lower the debt,” Sen.…
Occupy Wall Street Comes to Series Television
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2015/05/28/occupy-wall-street-comes-to-series-television-n201073
– The company happens to hold 70% of consumer debt in the world and Mr. … Robot thinks that he can destroy all digital traces of ordinary people’s debt, including student loans.…
Why Do Women Have More Credit Card Debt Than Men?
https://pjmedia.com/helen-smith/2015/06/28/why-do-women-have-more-credit-card-debt-than-men-n132302
– any debt. … debt. … Adam Tijerina, consumer advocate for National Debt Relief, says several potential reasons for this gender gap exist.…
Meep meep
https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2015/07/08/meep-meep-n194115
– Sanders also hates Obamacare because it has delivered the American consumer into the hands of Big Insurance and Big Pharma. … Europe’s debt crisis is not only an economic crisis but also a political crisis–one that poses challenges not just the EU itself, but…
While You Were Sleeping
https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2015/07/06/while-you-were-sleeping-n194113
– In short, France has managed to use the Greek bailout to offload €8 billion in junk debt onto its neighbors and burden them with tens … of billions more in debt they could have avoided had Greece simply been allowed to default in 2010. … of the regulator will only fuel speculation the central government is encouraging the share market boom in an effort to boost consumer
Obamacare Deductibles Forcing Patients to Forgo Preventive Care
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2014/10/18/obamacare-deductibles-forcing-patients-to-forgo-preventive-care-n196238
– certain preventive services, like immunizations, cholesterol checks and screening for breast and colon cancer, at no cost to the consumer … This allows a consumer to carry a higher deductible which usually means a lower monthly premium. … And there are also limits on out-of-pocket expenses in Obamacare policies that means the consumer probably won’t go bankrupt paying…
Japan's Last Chance
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2014/10/30/japans-last-chance-n246237
– In recent days, Abe has raised serious questions about proceeding with the second phase of a previously legislated consumer-tax hike … that has long been viewed as the linchpin of Japan’s debt-consolidation strategy.…
Gruber Video #6: 'Mislabeling' Cadillac Tax to Deceive the Voter
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2014/11/15/gruber-video-6-mislabeling-cadillac-tax-to-deceive-the-voter-n196728
– CPI is the consumer price index, which is lower than medical inflation. … out how to come up with the money that repealing the tax will take from the treasury, or risk significantly adding to the national debt
Private Market Flood Insurance 'Must Be Allowed, Encouraged'
https://pjmedia.com/bill-straub/2016/01/19/private-market-flood-insurance-must-be-allowed-encouraged-n102576
– But the program currently is about $23 billion in debt. … The program, Luetkemeyer said, must allow for “greater consumer choice so that in the future, we can lessen the amount of Americans…
'Tis the Season: Congress Passes $1 Trillion-Plus in Spending at 11th Hour
https://pjmedia.com/bill-straub/2015/12/18/tis-the-season-co…ress-passes-1-trillion-plus-in-spending-at-11th-hour-n102277
– “It plunges our nation into debt to the tune of nearly $20 trillion, busts the spending caps enacted by Congress just a few years ago … National Labor Relations Board’s joint employer standard; eliminate protections for clean air, water, land, and climate; weaken the consumer … This giant omnibus spending bill defies our core American values and it continues us on an unsustainable path of overspending and debt
A Congressional Bailout for Broke Puerto Rico?
https://pjmedia.com/nicholas-ballasy/2015/12/18/a-congressional-bailout-for-broke-puerto-rico-n102272
– Democratic lawmakers are advocating for Congress to take action on Puerto Rico’s debt crisis. Rep. … Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said Congress should allow Puerto Rico to restructure and stabilize its debt situation. … Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho) said bankruptcy is not a plan but only a step toward resolving the debt crisis.…
Commerce Department Makes it Official: The Economy Sucks
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2011/07/29/commerce-department-makes-it-official-the-economy-sucks-n237759
– perilously close to flat-lining in the first quarter and grew at a meager 1.3 percent annual rate in the April-June period as consumer … Neither is $14.4 trillion in debt.…
Cash-Only Doctors Defying Convention, Raising Statist Eyebrows
https://pjmedia.com/walter-hudson/2015/10/26/cash-only-doctors-defying-convention-raising-statist-eyebrows-n162100
– I advise my son to put himself through eight to ten years of school, racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt … Kathleen Stoll, director of health policy at the consumer advocacy group Families U.S.A., … fears that doctors who switch to a cash-only … Instead, so-called “consumer advocates” worry about market “barriers” while taking part it the erection of far worse ones.…
Exploring Two Paths to Wealth and Prosperity
https://pjmedia.com/walter-hudson/2015/10/23/exploring-two-paths-to-wealth-and-prosperity-n162092
– We’ve also fallen for more than one consumer debt trap. These qualities hardly make us unique. … The starkest difference manifests in their attitudes toward debt. Ramsey despises debt. … By contrast, Kiyosaki embraces debt as a tool when used to purchase assets that provide cash flow. He calls this “good debt.”…
Wisconsin and California Show that Local Taxes are a Political Death Trap
https://pjmedia.com/david-p-goldman/2012/06/06/wisconsin-and…nia-show-that-local-taxes-are-a-political-death-trap-n130876
– That compares with the $380 billion a year or so that homeowners pay on the $10 trillion in outstanding home mortgage debt. … During the 1970s, home prices tripled while consumer prices doubled, so the net worth of the middle class actually rose.…
IL Department of Revenue and the Law of Supply and Demand
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2012/06/14/il-department-of-revenue-and-the-law-of-supply-and-demand-n166757
– Quinn had warned that without action the health care program would collapse under a mountain of debt. … funding terrorism not only place a legal commodity into an illegal market system but also commit money laundering, fraud (both consumer
You Know What Isn't #DoingJustFine? The Average American Family's Bottom Line.
https://pjmedia.com/bryan-preston-1/2012/06/11/you-know-what…ingjustfine-the-average-american-familys-bottom-line-n166500
– The Federal Reserve’s detailed survey of consumer finances showed families’ median wealth plunged from $126,400 in 2007 to $77,300 … The median value of Americans’ debt did not change between 2007 and 2010. … personal wealth has grown and then contracted back down to where it was two decades ago, while your share in the massive national debt
Who Rules Egypt? The Battle Begins
https://pjmedia.com/barry-rubin/2012/07/02/who-rules-egypt-its-still-an-open-question-but-probably-not-for-long-n133114
– this is impossible, al-Mursi is more likely to follow a populist approach: big promises, phony jobs, strong subsidies to keep consumer … All of that spells more debt. And foreigners will be asked to pay the bills.…
Money
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2002/11/06/money-2-n213135
Consumer credit is reaching a saturation point, and so is the housing market, even with cheaper money. … Better to put some money aside for tomorrow, instead of using those smaller monthly payments to rack up yet more debt.…
Krauthammer Hits His Own Thumb
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2003/06/20/krauthammer-hits-his-own-thumb-n216180
– Raise the import fee to $15 a barrel, so the consumer keeps paying $35 a barrel net. The windfall goes to the U.S. Treasury. … And they certainly won’t pay down the debt or reduce taxes (much). Oh, no. We’ll get more protection for snail-darters.…
Let the Good Times Roll (Downhill)
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2003/08/27/let-the-good-times-roll-downhill-n216906
– One reason Americans could spend freely is that they went deeper into debt. … In 1946, just after World War II, consumer debt amounted to 22 percent of household after-tax income, reports the Federal Reserve. … (That is, for every $10,000 of income, there was $2,200 of debt.) Now debt is almost 110 percent of income.…
Money Money Money
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2004/04/16/money-money-money-7-n221105
– cheap money makes corporate profits look bigger, and those low rates encourage further expansion — of both business investment and consumerdebt. … Read: Consumer prices rose a half of a percent in March. This puts the annual rate at 6% – if March levels persist.…
When the Chewbacca Defense Just Won't Do, There's Always... Affluenza
https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2013/12/14/when-the-chewbacca-defense-just-wont-do-theres-always-affluenza-n148290
– Affluenza is described as “a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from … The far left invented the term “Affluenza” to goof on free markets and free choices of consumer consumption.…
When the Chewbacca Defense Just Won't Do, There's Always...Affluenza
https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2013/12/13/affluenza-n258080
– Affluenza is described as “a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from … The far left invented the term “Affluenza” to goof on free markets and free choices of consumer consumption.…
Previous Next