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US Facing Waves Of Debt Payments

New York Times | EDMUND L. ANDREWS | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Debt, Congress, Federal Deficit, Social Security, Obama, Debt Payments, Babyboombers, Borrowing, National Debt, White House, Fed, Treasury, Financial Crisis, Medicare, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.'s on terms that seem too good to be...

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The Debt Economy - How The Tax Code Encourages Debt : The New Yorker

newyorker.com | James Surowiecki | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Taxes, Debt, James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, Consumer Lending, The Debt Economy, Leverage, Borrowing, Tax Code, Business News

. Debt didn't get dangerously out of scale because the system was broken. It got out of scale, in part, because the system worked. The government d...

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Can The Free Market Save Small Businesses and Nonprofits?

Bruce Judson | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Bruce Judson, Small Business, Internet, Borrowing, Economic Crisis, Business News
Bruce Judson

Earlier this week, we announced a new service, The Cost Savings Guy, which has the potential to change the fortunes of small businesses and nonprofits that are struggling to stay afloat.

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Students Borrowing Dramatically More To Pay For College

The Wall Street Journal | ANNE MARIE CHAKER | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home

Read More: University, Standard of Living, Student Debt, College Graduates, Banks, Student Loans, Credit Cards, Higher Education, Stafford Loans, Debt Load, U.S. Education Department, College, Federal Aid, Borrowing, Pell Grants, Personal Finance, Home News

Students are borrowing dramatically more to pay for college, accelerating a trend that has wide-ranging implications for a generation of young people....

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Manufacture or Borrow (Until We Can't)

Dave Johnson | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Manufacturing, Industrial Policy, Trade, Economy, Financial Crisis, Credit Crisis, Borrowing, Recession, Business News
Dave Johnson

We don't sell enough things because we don't make enough things anymore. Over time this means we get poorer and poorer as we borrow more and more.

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Equal Opportunity Corruption

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Corruption, Mark Sanford, Goldman Sachs, The Americas, Cosmic Plan, First Peoples, Rod Blagojevich, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Roland Burris, Healthcare, Eric Holder, Borrowing, Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

Stewardship will solve the equal opportunity corruption in the United States if more and more of us will take our stewarding duties seriously. It's only going to work one individual at a time.

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Ownership Is So Last Century: From Owners/Consumers to Borrowers/Lenders

Starre Vartan | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Hertz, Consumers, Car Sharing, Lending, Borrowing, Seventh Generation, Burlington-Vermont, Green News
Starre Vartan

When I get to thinking about it, the only things I want to own outright are things I want to pass along to another generation, that have personal meaning to me. Who needs the rest?

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Ignore the Scaremongers - Watch out for the Truly Scary

Ann Pettifor | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment Numbers, Job Losses, Debt, Bankruptcy, Consumer Debt, Unemployment, Investment, Banker's Recession, Government Spending, Green Shoots, Recession, Ben Bernanke, Credit Crisis, Borrowing, Interest Rates, James Bond Markets, Business News
Ann Pettifor

Economists and their friends in bond markets are scaremongering in the hope of achieving cuts in government programs, rises in unemployment and lower wages. This is lunacy parading as economics.

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Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You

Michael J. Panzner | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Federal Bailout, Debt, U.S. Economy, Violence, Federal Reserve, Borrowing, Rescue Plan, National Debt, Federal Budget Deficit, Conflict, Bailout, Financial Rescue, Economic Rescue Package, Spending, Protest, Washington, Protests, Protestors, Politics News
Michael J. Panzner

After almost four decades of relative calm and complacency, there are signs that the social mood is beginning to sour.

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Saving vs. Borrowing

Jeff Danziger | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Recession, Frost Poem, Road Less Traveled By, Saving, Political Cartoon, Borrowing, Politics News
Jeff Danziger

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