Low Interest Rates

Call it the case of the disappearing dividends, a $42 billion caper that's robbing many Americans of a fair chunk of their future wealth.

We must grow the economy by empowering the private sector. I would have hoped by now we learned that inflation doesn't solve anything.

It now takes about 10 cents on every tax dollar collected just to pay the interest on the debt. As bad as that is, it's only because interest rates are at record lows that the debt is still manageable.

As financials struggle, the Fed's interest rate cuts have weakened the dollar even more, which greatly benefits exporters and multinationals. For most, the credit meltdown is only starting.