Apr 26, 2014 – Becoming a Christian requires acknowledging that the debt accrued through sin can never be paid by the sinner. … She is to be delivered to unknown benefactors willing to wipe away DeWitt’s large debt. … I remember the moment I first realized how ridiculous consumer credit could be.…

Nov 1, 2012 – Flake, an anti-pork crusader who regularly sends out punny comparisons of the national debt (i.e. … With a few well-placed references to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau founder Elizabeth Warren’s claims of Cherokee heritage, Brown…

Dec 2, 2012 – In balancing the budget, Walker paid off $831.7 million of debt left over from the previous Democrat administration, including: • … who announced he would no longer represent Republicans and has been running a string of web videos since Republicans changed a consumer…

Nov 27, 2012 – Last year we had to refi almost three trillion in existing debt, on top of the trillion in new debt Congress created. … Oh, wait… that’s only for the new debt Congress issues, and for the old debt being re-financed. … Ben needs to sell old debt. Tim Geithner at Treasury needs to refi existing debt. Congress needs to issue new debt.…

Nov 26, 2012 – ve got to have the president step up, and say, ‘Here’s my position on how to reform the entitlements and start managing down this debt … tried using Cyber Monday as a hook for its new Council of Economic Advisers report about the middle-class tax cuts’ impact on consumer … It estimated growth of real consumer spending could be cut by 1.7 percentage points in 2013 if middle-class tax rates go up an average…

Dec 30, 2012 – One sticking point appeared to be a chained consumer price index (CPI), an alternative measure of inflation. … The result is nearly $9 trillion in new debt accumulation over the next decade, which represents virtually no change from current projections…

Jan 25, 2011 – Depending on bureaucracy to foster innovation, competitiveness, and wise consumer choices has never worked – and it won’t work now … Yet after two years, the unemployment rate remains above 9% and government has added over $3 trillion to our debt.” **********…

Jun 9, 2014 – that in our “borderless global economy” jobs migrate to where the money is and, due to the mass printing of currency and federal debt … He argues that the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is inhibitory — especially in New Hampshire, where the…

Jun 9, 2014 – Analysts said increased consumer and business spending was behind the increase. … sustained and sustainable growth, without either inflating itself away or leading to another recession made worse by all the additional debt … So look for our next recession to start at the top end with trillions in extra debt, trillions in excess liquidity, and with millions…

Jun 14, 2014 – Forty million Americans owe more than $1.2 trillion in student loan debt, making it the second leading source of debt in the nation … “Crushing student debt isn’t just hurting borrowers,” she said. … “There is mounting evidence that student debt is also holding back the economy.”…

Jun 25, 2014 – … The latest revisions reflect a weaker pace of healthcare spending than previously assumed, which caused a downgrading of the consumer … A country which can’t grow on the strength of its domestic economy, which must instead depend on debt, easy money, and the kindness … Real employment has barely budged this year, durable goods orders contracted in May, consumer spending contracted in April and was…

Jun 24, 2014 – As a result, we now have Dodd-Frank, the completely unaccountable Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a mortgage lending market where … Record deficits and national debt buildup. … $6 trillion in deficits deliberately rung up during Obama’s presidency, along with a nearly $7 trillion increase in the national debt…

Jul 9, 2014 – Tyler Durden on consumer debt: Remember that epic spending spree that took place in March when consumers cleaned out their savings … Auto sales were way up in June, too, with the additional debt that implies. … debt merry-go-round stops spinning.…

Jul 16, 2014 – So I pride myself on being able to beat the headlines, and I do that by just being a voracious consumer of the culture, the news, I … We’re coming up on 18T in debt. Liberal policies are a failure.…

Jan 16, 2013 – Speaking in front of audience of mainly media and children today, the latter upon whom he has piled trillions of dollars of massive debt … Item 8 gives his new behemoth bureaucracy something to do: “Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety…

Jan 15, 2013 – export markets such as the U.S. and China are starting to pick up, while improved sentiment surrounding Europe’s three-year-old debt … Consumer spending, which supports imports from other European countries, remains weak. … But they should be watching, because this is what happens when nations accumulate too much debt.…

Jan 14, 2013 – Raising bank profits has not helped the economy because credit cannot be extended to households that are in debt. … Every $1 increase in equity prices raises consumer spending by just 3 to 5 cents so a 10% increase in stocks will add, at best, 45 … We cannot assume that the paradigm of the last three decades of lower interest rates and debt expansion will be relevant going forward…

Feb 26, 2013 – When Debt Is No Debt There are no major programs that the president wishes to cancel, but plenty of new ones he envisions. … mongers have no choice but to get back to work and make tons of money, and that the resulting increased revenue will pay off the debt … He believed that the first $4 trillion in debt would stimulate the economy, and so is surprised that we are still massively borrowing…

Apr 8, 2013 – president’s budget will achieve what it has in the past, which is through sensible, balanced deficit reduction, bring our deficit and debt … into a place where we are on a fiscally sustainable path, where the ratio of debt to GDP is below 3 percent, and to do that in a way … The changes might include: –       Adopting what is called the “chained CPI” – a way to calculate the consumer price index that differs…

Apr 5, 2013 – Johnson, and Jonathan Tobin have done an excellent job criticizing the politics of the film; this post is intended to provide a consumer … any sense of awareness that colleges are the safe houses for most old leftists, hiding in plain sight while mis-educating their debt-burdened…

Jul 30, 2013 – a growing problem in advance of pitched fall battles with congressional Republicans over funding the government and raising the debt … argue that this has been detrimental to the economy overall, and a case could be made that the transition from a production to a consumer-oriented…

Aug 15, 2013 – The good news is, American consumers are feeling confident enough to take on more debt, even as total consumer indebtedness declines … But there’s less to it than you might think: At the same time, total consumer debt declined by $78 billion last quarter to $11.15 … Most of the adjustment was due to a decline in the amount of debt tied to outstanding home loans, likely due to lenders’ write-offs…

Sep 27, 2013 – Instead of succinctly communicating the benefits of free-market, consumer driven solutions to the individual and the family, Republicans … As you increase deductibles, as you get the consumer involved in health care, your prices go down. … The benefits and cost savings to the consumer get lost in the weeds of the flowcharts explaining the plans.…

Sep 26, 2013 – Boehner maintained that “economic reforms must be part of the solution to our imminent debt crisis.” … the deficit is reduced by an amount greater than the debt limit increase.” … Boehner dismissed the president’s vow to reject debt limit negotiations.…

Sep 20, 2013 – insurance to pay for these services will, of course, rise even more, since there was no insurance cost previously (other than the bad debt … left predictably created a plan that expands access, taxes “the wealthy” to pay for it, adds new layers of regulation, and limits consumer…