Debt

Debt: Empowerment; In May, 1920, the Federal Reserve Board met and agreed to contract credit for the first time, Cong. Rec. 2/23/23; U.S. Debt Clock; Rod Parsley: Conquering the Spirit of Debt; Culture of Government Debt, 2/3/7; National Debt Road Trip; Crisis of Credit Visualized; Ron Paul: National Debt. To whom do we owe it?, 12/26/7; Biggest Holders of US Government Debt; Rank of Countries from Most Debt Ridden to Most Credit, 8/12/9; So Much For Universal Default Disappearing, 3/4/10; THE Most Important Chart of the CENTURY, 3/20/10; The Money That Is Sold Abroad Is You!; Debt Spreading 'Like a Cancer', 6/10/10; Forget The PIIGS, The U.S. Is The Weakest Sovereign Debtor Of Them All, 6/16/10; National debt soars to highest level since WWII, 6/30/10; A Modest Solution, 7/13/10; Consumers Shun Credit Cards - Credit Card Usage Drops, Debit Card Usage Rises, 9/8/10; U.S. Debt-to-Deficit Difference Hits Fresh Record, As Treasury Continues To Issue 50% More Debt Than Needed To Fund Deficit, 9/13/10; Doug Casey: Exception Among Equities, 9/24/10; Three Horrifying Facts About the US Debt “Situation”, 10/7/10; Scary actual U.S. government debt; Elephant In The Room: Debt Grows Exponentially, While Economies Only Grow In An S-Curve, 10/30/10; More than 8 million drop out of credit card use, 11/29/10; $24.5 Trillion In US National Debt, $144 Trillion In Unfunded Liabilities In... 2015, 12/20/10; $2tn debt crisis threatens to bring down 100 US cities, 12/20/10; 111th Congress Added More Debt Than First 100 Congresses Combined: $10,429 Per Person in U.S., 12/27/10; Is the Federal Reserve Really Purchasing Over 60% of 2011’s Fiscal Deficit? In a Word, uh . . . Yeah, 1/4/11; 71% Oppose Raising Debt Ceiling as Congress Prepares to Ignore Supermajority's Wishes Again, 1/12/11; What is Plan B if China dumps its U.S. debt?, 1/18/11; Global Insiders Warned: U.S. Debt Crisis Could Explode at Anytime, 1/25/11; A. True Ott: Bursting Debt Bubble; Great Global Debt Prison, 2/4/11; 59.9% Credit Card Interest Rates?!, 2/9/11; Future Of Public Debt Is Terrifying, 2/12/11; Total US Debt Hits $14.195 Trillion, $99 Billion Away From Debt Ceiling; Treasury Revises Breach Date To As Soon As April 15, 3/1/11; U.S. Debt Jumped $72 Billion Same Day U.S. House Voted to Cut Spending $6 Billion, 3/16/11; Fears rise that Japan could sell off U.S. debt, 3/24/11; Total US Debt Now Officially Above The Ceiling, 4/18/11; Debt warning rocks US economy, 4/19/11; China Urges US to Protect Creditors After S&P Warning, 4/19/11; Crashing the Debt Ceiling, 4/19/11; US Treasury Tells Lawmakers It Needs $2 Trillion In Debt Capacity, 5/4/11; Selling Gold at Fort Knox Emerges as Next Big Question in Debate on Federal Debt Limit, 5/17/11; Fiscal Sodomy of the American Public and Bankster Holdings of PIIGS Debt, 6/2/11; Global Debt Crisis: How We Got in It and How to Get Out, 6/6/11; Economic Statistic US Elites Keep ‘Hush-Hush’, 6/14/11; "Growing Your Way Out of Debt" Is a Fantasy , 6/22/11; U.S. Treasury Secretly Weighs Options to Avert Default, 7/6/11; China's Debt Monster, 7/7/11; Fun, Fun, Fun, 'Til the market takes our T-bills away, 7/9/11; Debt Ceiling & Repudiation, 7/10/11; Jim Rogers Calls U.S. Debt Ceiling Talks “A Sham”, 7/12/11; Gary North: Baloney, 7/13/11; Larken Rose: Debt Ceiling Silliness, 7/18/11; Economics Professor: "[We’ll Have] a Never-Ending Depression Unless We Repudiate the Debt, Which Never Should Have Been Extended In The First Place", 7/20/11; US is the Largest Debtor Nation in History, 7/27/11; Debt Debate Definitions: Your Guide Through the Current Manufactured Madness, 7/28/11; Playing chicken with the nation: The U.S. debt ceiling fiasco and the total abandonment of leadership in Washington, 7/29/11; Debt-Ceiling-Debacle: The Surprising Way a Default or Downgrade Could Crush the Global Economy, 7/29/11; Debt Ceiling Roulette - Class War, 7/30/11; Next Week's Adventure in Sovereign Debt, 7/31/11; Truth About The Debt Deal: It’s Pretty Much Meaningless, 8/1/11; Seven startling things most people still don't know about the national debt, banking and the money supply, 8/2/11; Rep. Paul introduces bill to cancel $1.6T in debt held by Federal Reserve, 8/2/11; Debt Crisis Is A Trojan Horse To Cause The Fall of America, 8/2/11; Mullen Reiterates: Debt ‘Biggest Threat’ to National Security, 8/2/11; Bipartisan Debt Deal Betrayal, 8/3/11; Debt Impasse: Fake and Real, 8/3/11; Th-th-th-That's all folks - Barack Obama and Porky Pig, 8/3/11; U.S. Eats Up 60% of Debt Limit in One Day, 8/3/11; US borrowing tops 100% of GDP: Treasury, 8/4/11; Debt ceiling deal does little to cut real spending, 8/5/11; U.S. debt crisis worsens as borrowing tops 100% of GDP, 8/10/11; Next Federal Government Budget Crisis Hits September 30th, 2011, 8/12/11; What is Debt? – An Interview with Economic Anthropologist David Graeber, 8/26/11; Deja Vu All Over Again: Total US Debt Passes Debt Ceiling... In Under One Month Since Extension, 9/2/11; Big (Stupid) Idea: Universal Personal Bankruptcy to Save America's Economy, 9/14/11; Debt-Serfdom Is Now The New American Norm, 10/18/11; In Debt Up To Our Eyeballs, 10/18/11; US States Are Facing Total Debt of Over $4 Trillion, 10/24/11; Federal debt tops $15 trillion, 11/16/11; $52.5 Billion In Virtually Free US Bank Debt Due Next Month, 11/21/11; Jim Rogers: It's going to get worse and worse, it is ludicrous to think too much debt can be solved by more debt, 12/10/11; Obama to ask for debt limit hike, 12/27/11; US Closes 2011 With Record $15.22 Trillion In Debt, Officially At 100.3% Debt/GDP, $14 Billion From Breaching Debt Ceiling, 1/3/12; 34 Shocking Facts About U.S. Debt That Should Set America On Fire With Anger, 1/10/12; Debt Slavery: 30 Facts About Debt In America That Will Blow Your Mind, 2/11/12; Chained and Naked – Loans and Privacy Disclosure Policies, 2/20/12
Credit-rating agencies: Credit-rating agencies draw fresh scrutiny, 11/17/11
US Credit Rating: US debt rating downgraded for first time in history, 8/5/11; Coming Monday: Domino Ratings Downgrades, 8/6/11; Day of Reckoning, 8/10/11; Totalitarianism of the Progressive Mindset, 8/10/11; Comedy video: Robert Reich on the US with a B+ credit rating! Funny until..., 8/21/11; S&P: S&P downgrades U.S. credit rating for first time, 8/5/11; S&P Downgrades Debt of United States Government, 8/5/11; S&P Downgrades US To AA+, Outlook Negative - Full Text, 8/5/11; US loses AAA credit rating after S&P downgrade, 8/6/11; On the S&P ratings move, 8/6/11; S&P head: Agency may downgrade U.S. again, 8/7/11; What the S&P Downgrade Really Means, 8/9/11; Government probe of Standard and Poor's, 8/17/11; S&P and the Bilderbergers: All Part of the Plan?, 8/19/11; After downgrading U.S., S&P gives top rating to sub-prime mortgages, 8/31/11; Fitch: Fitch affirms U.S. AAA rating, disagrees with S&P, 8/16/11; Fitch again warns U.S. debt burden threatens AAA rating, 12/21/11; Moody's: Moody's: Neither debt plan protects the nation's AAA rating, 7/29/11; MOODY'S ANALYST BREAKS SILENCE: Says Ratings Agency Rotten To Core With Conflicts, Corruption, And Greed, 8/19/11; Moody's managers pressured analysts: ex-staffer, 8/19/11
State & Local Credit Ratings: Moody's warns state and local governments could see credit downgrades, 8/11/11
Debtor's Prison: In jail for being in debt, 6/9/10; In Jail For Being In Debt, 6/10/10; PR Push Against Strategic Defaulters Underway (Is There a Debtors’ Prison in Your Future?), 6/14/10; In jail for being in debt, 3/17/11; Matt Stoller: Who Wants Keep the War on Drugs Going AND Put You in Debtor’s Prison?, 6/24/11
Credit Cards: Credit card piracy - the next shoe to drop; Colleges And Credit Cards, 9/8/10; How NOT to Use a Credit Card – 10 Uses You Should Avoid at All Costs