Apr 12, 2013 – To the average consumer of the Soviet state-run media, that didn’t make any sense. … Recently I had a rare opportunity to repay my debt.…

May 7, 2013 – The debt is small? Governance is unusually competent? … Seventy-million extra mouths translate into an entirely new consumer class the size of France right here in the U.S., prompting new…

May 7, 2013 – And it’s on interest on the debt.  And the biggest piece of that is entitlements, by a long shot. … Interest on the debt, of course, is a function of the other spending.  … When you’re a consumer, you can fire Microsoft; you can fire AT&T; you can fire JPMorgan. …

May 1, 2013 – If you take on debt to buy income from a business, you could get into trouble if business profits drop. … That’s why companies play this leverage game in sectors that have reliable income streams, for example consumer staples. … Below, we see the performance of the Consumer Staples ETF (XLP) against the Industrials (XLI) and Technology ETF’s.…

May 26, 2013 – Senate playbook, Franken has kept his head down, largely avoided national press and focused on populist issues like privacy and consumer … And the state Republican Party is reeling, debt-ridden and seeking to find its way after its Ron Paul-affiliated Senate nominee lost…

Jun 6, 2013 – In other words, everything else besides the consumer spending which Keynesians still erroneously believe drives sustainable growth … Friday’s key report was on consumer spending and income, both of which fell during April for the first time in a year — “unexpectedly … nothing but a Ben Bernanke bubble, the continuation of which almost completely depends on the consistency of the Fed chairman’s debt-buying…

Jun 3, 2013 – Consumer debt outstanding has risen nearly 10-fold since 2006, and jumped by 40% during the past year. … As I noted in my April 23 essay, it is hard to reconcile a 40% annual increase in consumer debt with a 5% annual increase in nominal … consumer spending (inflation is running at 7%, so real spending is down by 2%).…

Jun 30, 2013 – “Helping graduates refinance their private student loan debt into more affordable terms frees up funds for them to buy houses, start … Vermilyea said balances of student loan debt are now greater than any other consumer loan product with the exception of residential … mortgage debt.…

Oct 10, 2013 – on our debt – we won’t,” Coburn said on CBS This Morning. … need for a separate vote on the debt ceiling. … The job of managing the federal debt falls to the Bureau of the Public Debt within the Treasury Department.…

Oct 8, 2013 – And because it’s called raising the debt ceiling, I think a lot of Americans think, it’s raising our debt. … It is not raising our debt. This does not add a dime to our debt. … debt, not decrease them.…

Oct 22, 2013 – Times’ Fiscal Fantasies It’s quite obvious that the vast majority of Bush 43′s presidency was marked by modest growth in public debt … There is almost certainly no end in sight in debt-to-GDP growth, despite Lauter’s contention, presented as if factual, that “the debt … And, it is not the full trillion dollars in new debt authority. This is big.…

Oct 18, 2013 – small-business owners told the Senate a day before Congress reached an 11th-hour deal on Wednesday to reopen the government and raise the debt … “The conversation has been going on for months about the shutdown and the debt ceiling. … A Gallup poll released Oct. 4 showed consumer confidence had dropped to its lowest since December 2011 and the Standard and Poor’s…

Nov 4, 2013 – But on October 16, its consumer spending survey came back saying that “the average holiday shopper will spend $737.95 on gifts, décor … Mark Zandi, the ADP report’s chief economist, said in the report’s conference call that “the government shutdown and debt limit brinkmanship … product — and most forecasts for fourth quarter GDP were at 2 percent or below even before the ADP report and a recent dive in consumer…

Oct 28, 2013 – Obamacare, added millions to the disability and food stamp roles, grown the size of the federal work force, run up the national debt … If running up $6 trillion in debt and disrupting one-sixth of the U.S. economy with Obamacare are passé, what would not be? … (our service costs on the debt are actually less than during the 1990s in inflation-adjusted dollars when the debt was a third of…

May 17, 2019 – Journal, not the least of which is that it will severely penalize middle-class families that stretch their incomes, sometimes go into debt … The proper approach would be a consumer-driven (i.e students and their families) higher educational system, not that institution-first … The consumer-driven system would naturally take on entirely different characteristics from our current one — cheaper and more effective…

Sep 14, 2021 – Far more than the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the PPI gives us a glimpse into future inflationary pressures that will eventually work … their way to the consumer. … administration, modern monetary theory, wherein the government can print an endless amount of money without regard to the national debt…

Oct 7, 2021 – credit card debt. … Bullough wrote in The Guardian in 2019, “South Dakota has a financial services industry, and the US has a trillion-dollar credit card debt … Noah didn’t mention that no one was holding a gun to the heads of those consumers who racked up a trillion bucks in credit card debt…

Oct 6, 2021 – These dynamics also suppress wages, reduce employment, and increase consumer prices. … Clear communication about the rationale for opposing the debt limit is necessary to maintain this sentiment.…

Oct 25, 2021 – Mad season. 2021 is no exception, what with continuing resolutions, another hike in the debt limit, a trillion-dollar “infrastructure … Prescription Verification Modernization Act,” a bill that is intended to take away the Federal Trade Commission’s ability to protect consumer…

Oct 25, 2020 – According to Forbes, it is now the second-highest consumer debt category, higher than both credit card and auto loan debt, and behind … only mortgage debt. … Debt must be proportionately forgiven, not merely moderated and deferred.…

Oct 24, 2020 – “This proposal is likely to send economically struggling Chicagoans further into debt while offering questionable benefits to public … council would still have to approve the increases as part of the annual budget process, tying property taxes to increases in the consumer…

Jan 25, 2021 – permit, the Biden Administration has chosen to listen to the voices of fringe activists instead of union members and the American consumer … Moment and the Canard of High-Paying Green Union Jobs The Assault on Greatness The Basic Unfairness of Forgiving Student Loan Debt…

Mar 12, 2023 – An avalanche of consumer debt could come tumbling down unless a rising economy and slowing inflation suddenly materialize to rescue … It is quite another thing to carry an even larger consumer debt with inflation outpacing earnings and economic growth stalled at around … The share of current debt transitioning into delinquency increased for nearly all debt types.”…

Apr 27, 2023 – And fresh risks loom for Biden’s reelection campaign economy, including a potentially market-shaking fight over raising the debt limit … Consumer spending remained resilient but is also likely to come under more pressure as Covid-era savings run out and inflation continues…

Nov 15, 2022 – The moratorium on student loan debt repayments is set to expire on Jan. 1, 2023. … But the rationale for pausing debt repayment doesn’t exist anymore. … an already stressed consumer loan industry.…