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. …

Aug 23, 2011 – Mulally offered his own solution to the mismatch, artfully explaining that we needed to “involve the consumer in our energy policy. … Obama rang up Buffet and Mulally because the three of them already agree: We should tax our way out of the recession and out of debt…

Aug 22, 2011 – Consumer confidence has fallen further after weeks of intensified economic concerns and broad stock market declines, and Conference … The 45.4 reading is the lowest since Consumer Edge Research began its index in March 2010. … Consumer Edge Research forecast that the Conference Board’s full-month Consumer Confidence Index would deteriorate 8 to 10 percentage…

Aug 31, 2011 – Update: Allahpundit adds: The worst part is that, with the economy on the brink of a double-dip and consumer confidence falling off … Six months ago, the day after the debt-ceiling deal was struck, last week, yesterday, today, tomorrow, the day before the Republican…

Sep 15, 2011 – could interfere with aviation safety, disrupt military and rescue operations, and interfere with high-tech farming equipment and consumer … Falcone is a hedge fund investor who made a fortune shorting subprime debt.…

Sep 10, 2011 – While the US was gripped by the twin dramas of the Obama speech and the 10th anniversary of September 11, the European sovereign debt … On the one hand their basic problem is a burgeoning public debt. … The cutbacks will also shrivel up consumer demand in Greece and Spain among others.…

Sep 8, 2011 – The reality is that the repeated stimulus efforts have failed on the consumer side because Americans became overleveraged during the … housing boom and have used any new cash from temporary tax cut measures or federal spending programs to pay down personal debt.…

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.…

Aug 20, 2016 – model of state capitalism that lives off of commodities exports —redistributing revenues among the population and stimulating consumer … captures the mood of leftist cohort that has repeatedly turned the corner expecting to find a Worker’s Paradise only to find Student Debt…

Apr 29, 2015 – Don’t be fooled by those “strong” numbers from Q3 and Q4 of last year — they were mostly the result of a surge in consumer spending … the extent that demand is growing at all in the world economy, it seems again to be almost entirely dependent on rising levels of debt … A crisis caused by too much debt has been fought with even more of the stuff.…

May 5, 2015 – provision in state law making it illegal for companies to record all cellphone conversations without the express consent of the consumer … The bill was opposed by numerous advocates for consumers and seniors, including the Consumer Federation of California and the American … privacy, it is wrong to be considering rolling back an important privacy law,” said Richard Holober, executive director of the Consumer…

Oct 25, 2016 – Federal debt was only 30% of GDP in 1979 (not counting unfunded entitlements), but rose to 110% in 2015. … The former technological vanguard, though, has turned into a group of stable consumer monopolies.…

Nov 11, 2016 – protectionism that inflate prices and give consumers fewer choices, to tax cuts that bring companies back, create jobs, and preserve low consumer … During the campaign, Trump didn’t really address the debt and spending, and when he did, he actually advocated more borrowing because…

Nov 28, 2016 – This explains why the policy is an attack on the Indian way of doing business: Much of India’s cash-based consumer transactions have … Last year, our federal government spent $223 billion, or 6 percent of all discretionary spending, on debt interest payments. … On our current track, we will spend more on debt interest than we do on our national defense within ten years.…

Jan 18, 2018 – Mick Mulvaney, former member of Congress who now heads up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), just forced an epidemic … They aren’t trying to put the consumer in a “debt trap.” … The consumer does it himself due to a failure to understand what he is signing.…