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  • Treasury Debt to Receipts over the LONG Term

    Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 22:16 in debt

    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

    Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 06:53 in debt

    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

    Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 12:22 in debt, tax

    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

    Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 06:25 in 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

    Posted on Thursday September 17th, 2009 at 13:55 in debt

    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

    Posted on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 06:25 in debt

    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...