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Treasury Debt to Receipts over the LONG Term
In response to my post on Treasury Debt to Receipts Spiking an anonymous reader asked for data going back further than the early 1980's. Using data from USGovernmentRevenue.com, the chart below shows debt to receipts going back to the mid 1800's.So h...
Treasury Debt to Receipts Spiking
For those that haven't yet had the opportunity to read Steve Keen, an economist out of Australia who has had some very insightful posts in the past (February's The Roving Cavaliers of Credit is a great 'out of the box' piece that I've reread multiple...
Why the U.S. is Broke... Personal Current Tax Edition
Always lots of interesting information within the Personal Income and Outlays release. Here is one such area... personal current taxes, which:Includes taxes paid by persons on income, including realized net capital gains, and on personal property. Fo...
Saddled with Debt
Ed from Credit Writedowns reminds us that national income alone does not provide a full snapshot on the well being of the economy.GDP is an inadequate measure for understanding how healthy an economy is. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz...
Consumers and Businesses Rebuilding Balance Sheets
The Fed released the latest Flow of Funds statement, which contains a lot of interesting information (Calculated Risk put the "jump" in wealth in perspective). I'll focus my efforts on the shift we are seeing away from consumer and business borrowing...
The Costs of Health Care
I'm a proponent of universal health care in the U.S. (reasons described in the comments section here). You can sum up my reasons as 'we live in the wealthiest (overall) country in the world and I do believe that health care IS a right of someone in a...
