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…

May 21, 2009 – inching closer as its status as a safe-haven currency fades with every uptick in stocks and commodities and its potential risks – debt … Our import-based consumer economy could sustain itself only so long before the Chinese got tired of stuffing greenbacks under the Middle … Little did I figure that the whole thing would get a last gasp — via huge run-ups in public debt, the Treasury running its presses…

Jun 9, 2009 – That’s a far cry from the consumer-friendly, customized service world which voters, especially young voters, have become used to. … Poll after poll make clear that voters are queasy about the mound of debt which is accumulating and suspect the taxes to pay for it…

Jun 7, 2009 – Treasury debt are now marching higher as nervous bond investors fret about a resurgence of inflation. Well, duh. … (Government spending having some “multiplier” effect unknown to consumer or business spending is a big, fat lie.) 2. … That extra spending means extra debt, which drives up interest rates, which chokes off growth. 3.…

Jun 29, 2009 – He goes on: Consumer choice and honest competition are indeed the foundation of a successful market system, but they are usually … efforts at beneficence are a series of violations — violations of the law, for example (ask the secured bondholders of Chrysler’s debt…

Jun 26, 2009 – What has the most potential to mire the United States in long-term debt? … Orszag writes that every other federal program’s effect on future deficits and debt is “swamped” by the effects of these two flagship … Government-run health care isn’t the ticket to innovative, dynamic, consumer-friendly care.…

Jul 15, 2009 – Consumer spending is probably about break-even, and private investment stimulates the economy dollar-for-dollar, plus the rate of return … So I honestly can’t tell you if it factors in the inflationary effects of all that debt, or if it includes the suppression of future…

Aug 26, 2009 – The pressure to find some middle ground on cap and trade, ObamaCare, financial regulation, and an uber-consumer protection agency will … behoove Republicans to return to some first principles and explain that their opposition to Obama-ism goes beyond the eye-popping debt … It turns out the hip guy wants to force them to buy health insurance, load debt and an enormous future tax burden on their backs, and…

Aug 20, 2009 – anticipation that many variations on the levels of insurance, levels of deductibles, etc., would evolve offering the consumer … The amount of federal (and state) debt that is piling up should strike fear in us all. … We will soon reach a tipping point where the only recourse will be to monetize the debt in such amounts that will create something…

Nov 24, 2009 – McArdle made the very smart point — as she is wont to do — that it doesn’t make much sense for Washington to try and inflate away our debt … lot of smart points, Megan’s point isn’t quite smart enough.* Those twelve trillion dollars we’ve already borrowed… well, that debt … But the “structural” debt? Why, Congress could repudiate that tomorrow, with or without inflation.…

Dec 25, 2006 – Yet despite the budget deficits, the piling up of national debt, and amid the doom and gloom of the vast amount of US capital held … cheap appurtenances, or the addition of 1 billion Indian and Chinese fabricators to the world’s work force that results in endless consumer…

Aug 21, 2007 – And you bought a house whose debt payments did not eat up more than 30-40% of your monthly income. … Thus arose the alphabet soup of regulatory agencies and the consumer movement.…

Oct 29, 2007 – with strokes, cancers, and assorted maladies, but also had pressure-filled jobs, little sleep, commutes, and chronic worries about debt … big-rigs that are now coming into the province hourly, without escort and without being attacked, bringing millions of dollars in consumer…

Dec 25, 2007 – A candidate who would not talk about reducing deficits, but promise instead surpluses to such a degree to buy down the national debt … could live in such exceptional splendor amid conspicuous consumption and rail like an Old Testament prophet about the Western consumer…

Jan 27, 2010 – Name a big Chinese or Indian consumer product that isn’t a copy. … 6:41PM Obama owns your college debt! But he cures cancers! And has Pells! 6:42PM Ahem. Sorry. I lost control there. … 6:57PM Did Obama just promise to spend money without increasing the debt?…

Feb 11, 2010 – saving the money, anyway, when the theory was that they’d all be spending it to rapidly revive the economy in a flurry of renewed consumer … Or that Congress has approved raising the debt ceiling, officially, up to levels where even your great-great-grandkids will need to…

Feb 11, 2010 – Government subsidies for housing, food, transportation, etc., coupled with cheap Chinese and Indian imported consumer goods, have for … I have no idea, but offer only competing scenarios: 1) as our debt becomes unsustainable, we react and increase the retirement age, … Exxon, and Ford, and we fade; 3) India and China discover that they too have a rendezvous with suburban blues, environmentalism, consumer…

Feb 24, 2010 – Except that “The President’s Proposal adds certain consumer protections to these ‘grandfathered’ plans. … The Obama plan contains fiscal gimmicks and gamesmanship which will lead to crushing deficits and debt; sanctions government intrusion…

Mar 30, 2010 – Now, however, are not they anti-American, anti-union, anti-Obama administration, anti-consumer, pro-corporate greed fetishes? … to pay higher local, state, federal, payroll, and heath care taxes, with the assumptions that you will not help to pay down the debt…

Mar 29, 2010 – One thing that happened is that she is already nearly $40,000 in debt: how precocious the young are today! … companies finish totting up the damage, dividing it by the number of policies they write, and passing along the cost to you, the consumer … We’ve put ourselves deeper into debt which means we are ever so much more prosperous.…

Mar 25, 2010 – We are floating huge amounts of debt at historically cheap interest. … No, entitlements subsidize the good consumer life of both the poorer and the middle class.…

Apr 11, 2010 – cover essentials and free up money for discretionary spending, have combined to give the proverbial lower middle class access to consumer … Note well that no politician ever gives the U.S. credit for extending the veneer of American consumer comfort to nearly all its 300 … us out of this recession, find the energy to keep the country fueled, and create the money to pay off a soon-to-be $ 20 trillion debt…

Apr 25, 2010 – Obama argued that he was advocating “a common-sense, reasonable, nonideological approach” that would strengthen consumer protection … Taking Fannie and Freddie into conservatorship and guaranteeing other housing agencies and their debt? Another $7 trillion. … The Financial Times described the biggest driver of public debt as unfunded healthcare and pension liabilities.…

Apr 23, 2010 – Greenspan estimated that four-fifths of the trifold increase in American households’ mortgage debt between 1990 and 2006 resulted from … Some $263 billion of the proceeds went to consumer spending and to pay off other debts.…

May 2, 2010 – “Tonight, we owe an incredible debt of gratitude to the heroic actions of the New York City Police Department and to a single vigilant … New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the car contained three propane tanks, consumer-grade fireworks, two filled 5-gallon…