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. …

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…