Aug 28, 2019 – energy and the environment (“global warming” halting the huge historic growth contributions of fossil fuels), and an overhang of consumer … and government debt, perhaps epitomized by the crisis of entitlement liabilities, $120 trillion in the United States alone.…

Oct 1, 2019 – Americans don’t want to pay higher prices for smartphones, or computers, or display screens, or the other cheap consumer electronics … The vast majority of China’s exports to the U.S. are consumer goods, especially electronics. … The Speech Donald Trump Should Give on China In short, tariffs on consumer goods only will throw Br’er Xi into the briar patch.…

Nov 3, 2022 – As interest rates soar, our $31 trillion national debt crowds out everything else in the budget. … We never fixed the supply-chain crisis of last year, and so still face shortages of key consumer goods. … falsely swears that he passed his student-loan amnesty plan by one or two votes when he simply signed away a half-trillion dollars in debt…

Jun 26, 2021 – Over the past year, consumer prices have shot up 3.9 percent, reflecting the biggest gain since 2008 when oil prices hit a record high … An explosive growth in debt financed largely by central banks is likely to lead to higher inflation,” David Folkerts-Landau, chief … “Rising oil prices could compound any consumer-driven inflation. Indeed the price of oil has haunted the Fed before.…

Jul 19, 2021 – Presidentish Joe Biden’s awful and awkward speech on Monday, there’s at least a mild panic in the White House over the surge in consumer … They’ve been spending like criminals based on the “Modern Monetary Theory” (or MMT) that “debt is simply money that the government…

Jul 19, 2021 – Essentially, Biden said that Americans don’t have to worry about inflation caused by an explosive growth in debt financed by central … banks because… he’s going to expand America’s debt through more financing! … The Core Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all items rose 5.4 percent for the 12 months ending in June 2021.…

Jul 15, 2021 – “One unexpected expense could mean the difference between taking on more debt and losing it all.” … Recommended: An Ominous Portent for America Under Biden Gets Even Worse The Core Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all items rose 5.4 … “Rising oil prices could compound any consumer-driven inflation. Indeed the price of oil has haunted the Fed before.…

Jul 13, 2021 – Prices for consumer goods and services, excluding food and energy, shot up 0.9 percent in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS … This increase in the Core Consumer Price Index (CPI) far outpaced what economists expected. … “Rising oil prices could compound any consumer-driven inflation. Indeed the price of oil has haunted the Fed before.…

Jul 28, 2021 – The Core Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all items rose 5.4 percent for the 12 months ending in June 2021. … We’re up to almost $30 trillion worth of debt, we already — this year! — spent $1.9 trillion, the Democrats did, in spending. … This is no time for increased debt-financed government spending.…

Oct 9, 2019 – Joe Biden even worked to block an amendment that would have offered bankruptcy protection to people with medical debt. … The bill also blocked people from discharging private student loan debt under bankruptcy. … Total student loan debt was under $400 billion in 2005; it surged in the wake of the law’s passage and is now over $1.5 trillion.…

Oct 19, 2019 – Ever since it came into existence in 2011, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been imperiled by its structure. … The case now before the court involves a California law firm called Seila Law the bureau investigated for allegedly unscrupulous debt … Elizabeth] Warren agitated for the creation of a consumer protection agency.…

Jul 3, 2018 – First, as only the most obtuse consumer of media would not understand by now, the separation policy was not unique to the Trump administration … Albany, GA where I was a speaker: Earlier, he’d been holding a sign that said: “The government put my generation millions in debt…

Jul 19, 2018 – Americans don’t want to pay higher prices for smartphones, or computers, or display screens, or the other cheap consumer electronics … The vast majority of China’s exports to the US are consumer goods, especially electronics. … In short, tariffs on consumer goods only will throw Br’er Xi into the briar patch. You’re ten years late and $1 trillion short.…

Apr 26, 2018 – foreign governments — they are paid by American importers and American importers then pass those costs on to you and me as the consumer … and services,” or being “invested in the United States,” either in private real estate or companies or in public assets like U.S. debt…

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.…