Dec 25, 2007 – A candidate who would not talk about reducing deficits, but promise instead surpluses to such a degree to buy down the national debt … could live in such exceptional splendor amid conspicuous consumption and rail like an Old Testament prophet about the Western consumer…

Jan 27, 2010 – Name a big Chinese or Indian consumer product that isn’t a copy. … 6:41PM Obama owns your college debt! But he cures cancers! And has Pells! 6:42PM Ahem. Sorry. I lost control there. … 6:57PM Did Obama just promise to spend money without increasing the debt?…

Feb 11, 2010 – saving the money, anyway, when the theory was that they’d all be spending it to rapidly revive the economy in a flurry of renewed consumer … Or that Congress has approved raising the debt ceiling, officially, up to levels where even your great-great-grandkids will need to…

Feb 11, 2010 – Government subsidies for housing, food, transportation, etc., coupled with cheap Chinese and Indian imported consumer goods, have for … I have no idea, but offer only competing scenarios: 1) as our debt becomes unsustainable, we react and increase the retirement age, … Exxon, and Ford, and we fade; 3) India and China discover that they too have a rendezvous with suburban blues, environmentalism, consumer…

Feb 24, 2010 – Except that “The President’s Proposal adds certain consumer protections to these ‘grandfathered’ plans. … The Obama plan contains fiscal gimmicks and gamesmanship which will lead to crushing deficits and debt; sanctions government intrusion…

Mar 30, 2010 – Now, however, are not they anti-American, anti-union, anti-Obama administration, anti-consumer, pro-corporate greed fetishes? … to pay higher local, state, federal, payroll, and heath care taxes, with the assumptions that you will not help to pay down the debt…

Mar 29, 2010 – One thing that happened is that she is already nearly $40,000 in debt: how precocious the young are today! … companies finish totting up the damage, dividing it by the number of policies they write, and passing along the cost to you, the consumer … We’ve put ourselves deeper into debt which means we are ever so much more prosperous.…

Mar 25, 2010 – We are floating huge amounts of debt at historically cheap interest. … No, entitlements subsidize the good consumer life of both the poorer and the middle class.…

Apr 11, 2010 – cover essentials and free up money for discretionary spending, have combined to give the proverbial lower middle class access to consumer … Note well that no politician ever gives the U.S. credit for extending the veneer of American consumer comfort to nearly all its 300 … us out of this recession, find the energy to keep the country fueled, and create the money to pay off a soon-to-be $ 20 trillion debt…

Apr 25, 2010 – Obama argued that he was advocating “a common-sense, reasonable, nonideological approach” that would strengthen consumer protection … Taking Fannie and Freddie into conservatorship and guaranteeing other housing agencies and their debt? Another $7 trillion. … The Financial Times described the biggest driver of public debt as unfunded healthcare and pension liabilities.…

Apr 23, 2010 – Greenspan estimated that four-fifths of the trifold increase in American households’ mortgage debt between 1990 and 2006 resulted from … Some $263 billion of the proceeds went to consumer spending and to pay off other debts.…

May 2, 2010 – “Tonight, we owe an incredible debt of gratitude to the heroic actions of the New York City Police Department and to a single vigilant … New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the car contained three propane tanks, consumer-grade fireworks, two filled 5-gallon…

May 21, 2010 – bet, some voices — such as  the minister of Industry, Miguel Sebastián — are beginning to express their worry over the enormous debt … The internal report of the Spanish administration admits that the price of electricity has gone up, as well as the debt, due to the … The majority are subsidies charged to the 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…

Jul 3, 2018 – First, as only the most obtuse consumer of media would not understand by now, the separation policy was not unique to the Trump administration … Albany, GA where I was a speaker: Earlier, he’d been holding a sign that said: “The government put my generation millions in debt…

Jul 19, 2018 – 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 US are consumer goods, especially electronics. … In short, tariffs on consumer goods only will throw Br’er Xi into the briar patch. You’re ten years late and $1 trillion short.…

Apr 26, 2018 – foreign governments — they are paid by American importers and American importers then pass those costs on to you and me as the consumer … and services,” or being “invested in the United States,” either in private real estate or companies or in public assets like U.S. debt…

Feb 6, 2024 – According to the New York Federal Reserve, credit card delinquencies surged more than 50% in 2023, total consumer debt skyrocketed … With a total of $1.13 trillion in debt, credit card debt that moved into serious delinquency amounted to 6.4% in the fourth quarter … In November, experts warned of a looming credit card debt crisis as consumer spending was likely being financed by credit cards.…

Feb 2, 2024 – store wrote, according to the Washington Post, that “perils and violence of the downtown environment, inflation, the decrease in consumer … The Government Is Just Adding Debt.…

Jan 19, 2024 – Last year, Joe Biden came up with the most grandiose debt forgiveness plan in American history. … How "modest" is the "modest adjustment" of $137 billion in debt relief? … The authority to forgive that much debt doesn't exist. Biden just pulled it out of thin air.…

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 11, 2021 – After Wednesday’s frightening economic report on consumer prices, I hope not. … Related: Biden Blames the Country’s Mood on Problems His Administration Created The Labor Department announced this week that the consumer … “Going forward, it is important that Congress pass my Build Back Better plan, which is fully paid for and does not add to the debt,…