Dec 16, 2008 – Below the “Read More” The key here is exchange rates and the impact of increased consumer spending driven by the housing bubble … This represents trillions of dollars of consumer demand. Lots of this demand was met by foreign suppliers, most notably China. … At the same time, the high crude prices starting hitting the consumer in the gas tank.…

Jan 1, 2009 – stabilized through similar measures The commercial paper market is flowing via the Fed A $200 billion facility to enable consumer … debt securitization is in place The Fed is purchasing $500 billion of high grade mortgage paper to free up that market The Fed…

Feb 28, 2002 – Everyone in Japan knows what must be done: Write off bad debt, allow bad banks to fail, provide an RTC-type corporation to deal with … any assets, and deregulate farms and the consumer economy.…

Feb 22, 2002 – Jiang, and think of what the US consumer might do. We are the lifeblood of your regime. … Without our dollars, you can’t prop up your debt-riddled banks or stave off the bankruptcy of your state-owned enterprises.…

Sep 25, 2002 – The first is a bubble in consumption, financed by rising levels of consumer debt; the second is a bubble in housing.…

May 24, 2011 – In 2008, CNN pointed out that from 1985 to 2005, college tuition had increased more than four times faster than the consumer price … For a student who accumulated $30,000 in student loan debt, servicing that debt is going to be painful, if at all even possible. … rare exceptions, the only way to avoid repaying that debt is death or total, permanent disability.…

Mar 22, 2011 – Something similar often happens on the level of the individual consumer: homeowners rebuilding after a disaster take the opportunity … Europe has arrived at this dismal juncture driven by three forces: (a) large welfare states that were too often financed with debt … Even European countries not facing an immediate debt problem need to reduce budget deficits to retain market confidence.…

Apr 6, 2011 – It seems likely that the Fed will raise interest rates and launch the Good Ship QE3, in an attempt to disinflate consumer prices while … That’s 11 million American households with a vested interest in inflating away their biggest debt. How many voters is that? … Furthermore, Washington is sitting on $14 trillion in debt.…

Apr 1, 2011 – Over the 12 months that ended in February, consumer prices increased just 2.1 percent. … Just that increase in what we pay on debt we already owe would be bigger than what we spend each year on defense. … could eliminate one of the three of those, entirely, just zero it out of the budget, and it still wouldn’t pay for the increased debt…

Apr 15, 2011 – He announced he does not want a solution to America’s deficit and debt crisis. … on entitlements, discretionary spending, and debt, the Republicans are the only adults in the room. … To the casual consumer of political debate, Ryan is conscientious but not terribly charismatic in carrying the budget message.…

May 10, 2011 – Of course not, so why should the people who already benefited this country by producing jobs and our awesome consumer goods have to … Everyone born in this country owes a huge debt to those who went before and built it up for us, and if you’re not going to try and…

Nov 9, 2015 – During a Senate forum on college affordability and student debt, Hirono asked Jess Sanchez, a teacher at Chapman Heights Elementary … Rohit Chopra, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress who used to work at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB…

Jun 8, 2012 – These groups, operating collectively, can block any overall effort to cut spending or to address the problems of deficits and debt. … the Ruling Class is responding to by burrowing their heads in the sand, and promising to raise even more taxes and ban even more consumer…

Sep 23, 2010 – Deficits create consumer demands, spread money around to those who need it most, and spur economic prosperity. … Joe the Plumber, Velma Hart, was not faulting Obama for being too liberal in raising taxes, scaring small business, or piling on debt … The problem is not that Obama did not give us enough of it, but that he gave us too high deficits, rising debt, Keynesian stimuli,…

Oct 13, 2010 – This is happening when the economic news (jobs numbers that sucked on Friday, reports of consumer behavior spending shutting down, … One more chart: This is telling us that the reports of government debt are weighing heavily on the dollar. … In the short run, fear over debt and currency valuations support the prevailing political view.…

Oct 27, 2010 – Final payment for  the debt will not be required until December 2011. … What if the party found itself in deep debt after losing one or both houses of Congress? … Lewis, is considered one of the Obama administration’s top Wall Street allies on a whole host of issues, from the creation of a consumer…

Jul 24, 2011 –   According to a new Rasmussen Poll, consumer confidence level is, unsurprisingly, at new lows, with 63% saying the economy is getting … Most voters fear than any deal on the debt ceiling debate will raise taxes too much and cut spending too little.…

Jul 21, 2011 – Wynn’s stated indisputable truth must be at the core of the current debt ceiling, tax, and spending negotiations taking place in Washington … Consumer confidence is at its lowest level since March 2009, one of the worst months of the recession. … The director of the widely read Consumer Reports Index stated his belief last week in a radio interview that seeing the unemployment…

Jul 20, 2011 – Representatives, on a bipartisan basis, approved Tuesday the Cut, Cap and Balance Act that provides for an increase in the U.S. federal debt … The GOP also had a handful of members voting “No,” presumably because they are opposed to raising the debt limit under any circumstances … through the House has forced serious consideration in the Senate of several measures that will also allow for an increase in the debt…

Aug 7, 2011 – Well, the debt deal is behind us, but it’s clear that the White House wants more taxes. … Similarly, James Cameron has hectored Americans to reduce consumption, noting that “DVDs are wasteful…It’s a consumer product like … any consumer product” — while simultaneously hawking three different DVD versions of Avatar.…

Aug 4, 2011 – Congress should enact a steep, inflation-indexed hike in gas taxes, one big enough to alter consumer incentives and habits permanently … there weighing down on jobs, sales, and incomes range from the global consequences of the earthquake in Japan to concerns over the debt…

Aug 3, 2011 – That means Obama won’t be able to seat his pick to lead the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, former Ohio Attorney General … After passing the debt limit legislation on Monday, House leaders announced they would hold pro forma sessions through August, a procedural…

Aug 10, 2011 – Hotline * California Consumer Information Center * California Consumer Information * California Consumer Services Division * California … Curriculum and Instructional Leadership Branch * California Data Exchange Center * California Data Management Division * California Debt … California Department of Community Services and Development * California Department of Conservation * California Department of Consumer…

Aug 24, 2011 – hurts poorer millions as we see with near nonexistent growth, a declining stock market, a 9.1% unemployment rate, near record low consumer … confidence, record annual deficits and aggregate debt, and soaring fuel and food costs. … And why, given his belief that our debt problem is found in a lack of revenue rather than in wasteful and counterproductive government…

Aug 24, 2011 – – are actively entwined in a lawsuit to stop this debt-forcing law. … It might actually come close to the national debt number. … I’m closing this piece with the very best Obama-debt analysis I’ve seen to date. …