Debt

The Rich Get Richer: Time for a Change

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, Debt, Wealthy, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Wealth, Economy, Middle Class, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

There no sense of decency among the rich and their enablers in the government and in politics, and in the chattering classes who worship before the altar of market fundamentalism.

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The Shampoo Economy

Jared Bernstein | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Economy, Debt, Economic Policy, Market Regulation, Economy, Politics News
Jared Bernstein

Our system of borrowing, lending, and financing investments by both businesses and households is a national treasure, one which we have squandered in recent years.

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Calling On The Gospel To Call Off Debt

MSNBC | Ovetta Wiggins | Posted 07.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Debt, Financial Crisis, Gospel, Church, Economic Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

Following the advice of their pastor, the men and women shuffled to the altar, cut up their credit cards and placed them near his feet. "If we want t...

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Reverse Robin Hood: Stealing From the Poor to Give to the Rich

Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Reagan, Lazard, Debt, John McCain, Assisted Living, Bailout, Bruce Wasserstein, Atria, Economy, Crisis, Failure, Foreclosure, Elder Care, Business News
Martin Bosworth

For true capitalism to work, there has to be a balance of free enterprise and accountable oversight. Everyone should be able to start at the same line and run the race according to their own skill and strength.

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Bernanke Threw the Dollar Under the Bus

Vince Farrell | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Frederick the Great, Mortgages, Debt, Fnm, Liquidity, Stock Market, Mortgage Crisis, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Fre, Defend the Dollar, Business News
Vince Farrell

I understand the pressures with the collapse of FNM and FRE, but those stocks have to sink or swim on their own. Stabilizing the multi-trillion debt market behind those companies can be done without bailing out the stockholders.

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Obama: College Should Be Affordable For Everyone

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Tuition Plan, College Aid, Financial Aid, Obama College Students, College Voters, Debt, Student Debt, College Loans and Debt, College Loans, Student Loans, Tax Credits, Politics News

TAYLOR, Mich. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama recalled paying off his own mountain of student loan debt and promised struggling...

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Debt Got Your Sleep?

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 06.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Insomnia, Stress, Debt, Sleep Deprivation, Health, Sleep, Living News
Dr. Michael J. Breus

Stress is a fact of life and unfortunately debt has also become a fact of life for many of us. I have no doubts that today's intense stress levels are adversely affecting the quality and quantity of our sleep.

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In the Shadow of the Wizard of Oz: "Home Sweet Home"

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.27.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Wizard of Oz, Foreclosures, Debt, Economic Justice, Flag Pin, Popular Culture, Housing Crisis, Entertainment News
Danny Schechter

The home is the heart and the hearth of America, and this song is its clarion cry, especially now that so many American families have already lost theirs

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Carrie Bradshaw Is the Harbinger of Death

Daniel Holloway | Posted 05.20.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Entertainment, Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City, Debt, Wages, Movies, Sarah Jessica Parker, Newspapers, Satc, Age Demographics, Sex and the City: The Movie, Entertainment News
Daniel Holloway

I now look forward to Carrie Bradshaw's big screen debut about as much as I look forward to the day when I arrive in hell and am told David Spade is my roommate.

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Friday Talking Points [30] -- "Mainstream Media Out To Lunch" Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Caucus, Debt, Ted Stevens, Strike, Begich, Flowers, West Coast, Gas Tax Holiday, Campaign, China, Deficit, Mark Begich, 2008, Midotw, Craig Ferguson, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Pork, Health Care, Union, Worst President Ever, Daniel Inouye, Delegates, Gas, Alaska, Micah Fitch, Army Field Manual, Labor, Democrat, Congress, 08, Bridge to Nowhere, Stimulus, Democrats, Election, Barack Obama, Nomination, 08 Election, Elections, May Day, Mddotw, Health, Price Per Gallon, Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Helen Thomas, Senate, Hawaii, Barbara Boxer, Tubes, Mission Accomplished, Cia, Iraq, Democratic, Dianne Feinstein, Delegate, Bush, Republican, Pledged Delegates, Environmental, Senator, Port, Protest, Price of Gas, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, 2008 Campaign, Ports, Protesting, Protester, Bank of China, John McCain, Gasoline, Primary, Pork Barrel, Gas Tax, Interrogation, War, Stephen Colbert, 2008 Elections, Polar Bear, Rebate, 2008 Election, Longshoremen, 08 Campaign, 2008 Presidential Race, Flowers for Helen Thomas, Health Insurance, Environment, Waterboarding, Fundraising, Stimulus Checks, Environmentalist, Torture, Guam, Politics News
Chris Weigant

If every port on the West Coast of the United States of America was shut down because of a terrorist threat, do you think it would make the news? So d...

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How National Debt Is Contributing to Public Disenchantment with Government

Andrew L. Yarrow | Posted 04.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Deficit, Debt, Recession, Business News
Andrew L. Yarrow

As a "tsunami" of debt threatens to sink our economy and government, that same tsunami is also feeding a rising sea tide of cynicism and mistrust of America's central democratic institutions.

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We Can't Afford This War Anymore

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Economy, Financial Crisis, Debt, Cost of War, Iraq, Federal Government, Budget, Politics News
Hale

I have been against the Iraq war from the very beginning. However, my arguments didn't rest on the lofty perches of ethics or morals; they rested on the far cruder cost benefit analysis of war.

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Profiting Off Debt

Bill Scher | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Debt, Investment, Economy, Freecreditreport, Business News
Bill Scher

I see ads for the deceptively-named "Free Credit Report" more and more and more, as if the worse the economy gets, the more companies seek to prey on those who are struggling.

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Hillary's Hoodwink

Ryan J. Davis | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Debt, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Campaign Debt, Politics News
Ryan J. Davis

The deadbeat campaign is nearly $9 million in debt and has left a string of unpaid bills all over the country. Is this the kind of fiscal responsibility you'd get in a Hillary White House?

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What I Said On Larry King Live

Anya Kamenetz | Posted 03.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Cnn, Larry King, Climate Change, Economy, Media, Depression, Recession, Wolf Blitzer, Debt, U.S. Economy, Larry King LIve, Bush Economy, Bear Stearns and JPMorgan Chase, Bear Stearns Bailout, Bear Stearns, Bear Stearns Collapse, Personal Finance, Business News
Anya Kamenetz

We, the people, must rewrite the rules of the market, to limit environmental degradation, the unregulated speculation that has brought our financial system to the brink of ruin, and the concentration of wealth.

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Profiteering, From the Civil War to Your Wallet

Heath Calvert | Posted 03.23.2008 | Business

Read More: US Economy, Iraq War, 2008 Recession, Debt, Recession, Business News
Heath Calvert

We should be asking Obama whether he will stand up for us and not continue bailing out a Wall Street that gambles with our livelihoods and loots hardworking Americans savings and pensions.

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The Difference Between Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Credit Card Borrowers and Microcredit: "The Poor Always Pay Back"

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Bush Economy, Debt, U.S. Economy, Microcredit, Grameen Bank, Economy, Kiva, Recession, Mohammed Yunus, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

The one thing I find absolutely amazing is how different this "first world" financial behavior is from that of those involved in microcredit.

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The Limits of Hope: Getting Real about the American Economy

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Debt, Austan Goolsbee, Washington Consensus, Hale Stewart, Trade, Kenneth Rogoff, Leo Hindery, Hillary Clinton, It Takes a CEO, Barack Obama, Politics News
Steve Clemons

There won't be a squeaky clean ending to the Democratic battle for the 2008 presidential nomination. The knife fight has begun already -- and I onl...

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Business To Security Analysts: Shut UP

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Bank Write Downs, Citigroup, Chuck Prince, Corporate Sanity, Credit Suisse, Business Stories of the Year, BS, Security Analysts, Character Issue, Excessive Exit Packages, Debt, Hedge Funds, Bear Stearns, Bogus Dudes, Depression, Self-Inflicted Injuries, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I've been in business for about 5,427 dog years and at no time during my career has there ever been a day when somebody wasn't worried about what some security analyst was writing about us.

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American and Chinese Co-Dependence: A Bad Relationship

Susan Kaiser Greenland | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Debt, U.S. Economy, Dalai Lama, U.S. Debt to China, Economy, Tibet, Bush Economy, US Economy, U.S. Debt, Tibet Protests, China Tibetan Protesters, Tibetan Protesters, Lhasa Violence, China Tibet, The Balance of Financial Terror, China, Lhasa, Politics News
Susan Kaiser Greenland

Take a look at how easy it is for China to disrupt the American economy.

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An Empire of Debt -- Collapsing Under Its Own Weight

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Falling Dollar, Debt, Dollar, Weak Dollar, Dollar Value, Credit Crisis, Paul A. Volcker, Business News
Hale

The central problems started with the "supply-side revolution," and the policy of borrowing instead of growing is finally catching up with the great debtor that is the US.

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From Take Back America - Monday

Dave Johnson | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Debt, Take Back America, Economics, Finance, Politics News
Dave Johnson

I am at the Take Back America conference in Washington DC. One common discussion here at Take Back America is that conservative economic policy chick...

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Bush Screws America, Again: Economy Slips to #2

Paul Abrams | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: European Union, Debt, United States, George W Bush, Euro, Economy, Politics News
Paul Abrams

For the first time since World War II, the United States is not the world's #1 economy. We have slipped behind the European Union.

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The U.S. is Choking on Debt Financed Expansion

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 03.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Economy, Household Debt, Debt, Housing Market, Personal Debt, Business News
Hale

Over the last 7 years, the financial industry has been very busy buying up all of the debt, carving it into various bonds and selling it to the highest bidder.

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World's First Debt-for-Health Research Swap

Sunil Chacko | Posted 03.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Debt, Debt-Swap, Business News
Sunil Chacko

Debt-swaps for social purposes are essentially conversions of foreign debts of developing countries to local currency earmarked for specific social purposes such as health, education or the environment.

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