May 3, 2026 – It spent years bleeding money, carrying debt, and looking for a way out.One possible escape route was a $3.8 billion merger with JetBlue … Young blocked the deal in January 2024, and JetBlue later walked away.Now the consumer-protection win looks a lot less heroic. … Debt mattered. Management decisions mattered. No serious argument should pretend the blocked merger was the only factor.…

Jan 16, 2026 – Someone broke the window and left four more.Just like that, a bunch of liberal arts degree debt holders with a negative $250,000 net … taxes its citizens upwards of 65% when all levels of government are considered (including what businesses pay and pass on to the consumer…

Dec 24, 2025 – just got a blockbuster 4.3% economic growth report for Q3, for the third quarter, today, smashing expectations, fueled by rising consumer … put in place.”Students of history recall that one of the very few effective ways for nations to pull themselves out of entrenched debt…

Dec 24, 2025 – “The U.S. economy grew at a much greater-than-expected pace in the third quarter, boosted by strong consumer spending, a delayed report … Province Bans Something Completely IrrelevantSea Lions, Salmon, and a System Out of BalanceTrump Makes Huge Move on Student Loan Debt…

Dec 19, 2025 – Debt drags anxiety into that space, turning generosity into pressure and joy into recovery. … Giving well does not require debt; it requires intention. … Going into debt for Christmas is not merely impractical; it betrays the spirit of the season.…

Dec 10, 2025 – Almost half (47%) blame his tariff policy for rising credit card debt. Two-thirds (66%) believe they lead to higher prices." … According to the Consumer Price Index, shelter inflation is at a four-year low, and the national median rent has fallen for four straight … Consumer sentiment is back on the rise and small business optimism is spiking amid record holiday shoppers and sales.President Trump…

Nov 20, 2025 – The three measures increased the federal debt to well over $33 trillion and caused prices to rise almost immediately.A graph by the … Louis showing changes in the Consumer Price Index illustrates how inflation grew rapidly in Biden’s early years in office, increasing … All told, inflation increased by about 20 percent over his four years in office, leading to higher prices for all consumer items and…

Oct 7, 2025 – The country pays the CCP back with oil, but it's still billions of dollars in debt and essentially at the Asian country's mercy. … Consumer goods lost a major South American market. Airlines pulled out.…

Aug 13, 2025 – through today's doom and gloom news item, a quick reminder that every time I write about Washington's addiction to spending and debt … Even with tariffs generating yuge new revenues off of American consumer spending, Congress just gifted us with the biggest July deficit … — you’d still need 291,000 of them just to cover the debt Washington ran up last month.Most people couldn't scrape up $291,000 even…

Aug 4, 2023 – “The lifting of Covid-19 pandemic curbs has been followed by an unusual bout of falling consumer prices instead of a surge. … A drop … records for spending and deficits… The biggest increase in outlays so far this year has been net interest on the soaring federal debt…

Aug 1, 2023 – “Now [Yellow’s] debt service is just enormous.” … Over the years, Yellow gobbled up many of its competitors in ambitious mergers, which also meant taking on the debt that those companies … “This could mean longer lead times, potential delivery delays, and increased costs — all of which could be passed on to the consumer…

Aug 9, 2023 – Bob Iger might be prepping his company for a buyout — and the Hollywood Reporter rumor mill speculates that the buyer could be consumer … But, yes, Apple could gain a controlling interest in Disney without taking on massive debt.…

May 12, 2021 – It destroys real income in order to reduce the real cost of debt service — until creditors revolt, and demand an extra risk premium … There’s worse to come, as higher housing costs feed into consumer prices. … There’s worse to come, as higher housing costs feed into consumer prices.…

May 26, 2021 – Including debt, the value of the deal is $8.45 billion, Amazon said. … I am a big consumer of the streaming services.…

Jun 9, 2021 – An explosive growth in debt financed largely by central banks is likely to lead to higher inflation.” … “Rising oil prices could compound any consumer-driven inflation. Indeed the price of oil has haunted the Fed before. … These will eventually be passed on to the consumer,” the Deutsche Bank authors wrote.…

Apr 2, 2016 – Everyone from China’s central bank to Arab sovereign wealth funds to German provincial-government banks bought American mortgage debt … As the Wall Street Journal reports: CPS, which faces a $1.1 billion budget deficit and billions more in pension debt, already has … Overall, for the first time in this recovery, a broad and significant rise in core economic costs is slowing job creation, real consumer…

May 26, 2016 – , even debt-happy Americans, can absorb. … Corruption, thrift, and a lack of consumer confidence have kept Chinese saving instead of spending. … Xi is determined to ward off the social unrest that will follow the debt blow up.…

May 23, 2016 – Longtime Sharp VodkaPundit Readers™ are well-informed already about the United States’ addiction to debt and cheap money, and our coming … Today’s China is also the world’s manufactory of first resort for consumer goods, and Chinese investments in infrastructure and resources…

Jun 14, 2016 – WASHINGTON – Hilary Shelton, the director of the NAACP’s Washington Bureau, welcomed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposal … “The Consumer Bureau is proposing strong protections aimed at ending payday debt traps. … “The short of it is it would certainly limit the number of access to predatory loans that are debt trapping, but in essence it also…

Jul 6, 2016 – A source from the debt-buying industry told PJ Media that this was violation of regulations. … Retired University of Cincinnati Professor Mary Franklin told Consumer Reports that debt collectors threatened to garnish her disability … for the National Consumer Law Center.…

Feb 4, 2015 – “Runaway spending habits have bred excessive deficits and incredible debt,” Enzi said. … “As we meet this morning, our Federal debt totals over $18 trillion. Every man, woman, and child owes $56,000 on that debt.  … Enzi vowed Congress will “act to control the spending, reduce the deficits and end the debt.…

Mar 6, 2015 – Consumer spending is down, initial jobless claims are up, and Marc Cuban says we’re in a tech bubble “far worse” the the DotCom Bubble … The difference between the last two bubbles and today is, we weren’t already sitting on $18,000,000,000,000 worth of debt, interest…

Mar 17, 2015 – If you’ll recall, it was just last week I speculated that the declines in consumer spending, for three months running and despite … moderate incomes, simply do not have the resources to pay their deductibles and will either have to put off care or incur medical debt … It’s no wonder that collections for medical debt represent half of all bill collections.…

Feb 23, 2017 – “Everybody in this room knows that Social Security hasn’t added a nickel to the debt. … breaks for billionaires and the war in Iraq and an inflated military budget that in fact led to the high deficits and the national debt … insurance amount” for qualified beneficiaries starting in 2021 and “revise computation of cost-of-living adjustments to use the Consumer…

Mar 16, 2017 – Meals on Wheels America says one in six senior Americans “struggles with hunger,” and their consumer base consists of seniors who receive … We’re $20 trillion in debt. We’re going to spend money. We’re going to spend a lot of money.…