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Current US Debt Ceiling Levels and Next Vote

January 17, 2011

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This spring of 2011, United States Congress will vote on whether or not to raise the debt ceiling.  What is the US debt ceiling? The debt ceiling refers to the total cap on U.S. borrowing through Treasury issuances of debt, in the form of bonds, to domestic and foreign holders.
If you think the U.S. is [...]

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Other Names for the Redistribution of Wealth

July 13, 2010 · 5 comments

in George Soros, bailout, charity, economics, gifts, philanthropy, stock exchanges, terminology, wealth, wealth transfer

U.S. public discourse especially, particularly during election seasons, as we saw in the primaries leading up to Obama’s election, makes a lot of fuss with the phrase “the redistribution of wealth.”
Those using the phrase seem to intend it to refer to some type of “Robin Hood” scenario, where some guy steals from the rich in order [...]

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State of the Economic Union: How Will Obama Get Massive U.S. Budget Deficits To Budge?

January 27, 2010 · 2 comments

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The Obama administration sits between an economic rock and a political hard place.  Others might call it a contradiction.  Obama needs to cut spending, but he’s doing this at the same time that more spending is being introduced (on job creation, more troops in Afghanistan).  Slight cuts in some areas are supposed to offset increased [...]

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Market Risks and Challenges That Lay Ahead in the Second Half of 2010

January 12, 2010

in 2010, DJIA, Financial New Year, Q3, Q4, S&P 500, bull market, earnings, economy, indexes, market bottom, market crash, market timing, market trends, recession, risk, technical analysis, wealth protection

Increasingly, analysts seem to agree that the first half (and the first quarter, especially) of stock markets in 2010 will look robust and promising, but stock markets in the second half of the year leave much to be desired.
The possibility of a double-dip recession still remains for some, while others mitigate this prediction about the [...]

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Secret Fed and Treasury Knowledge of Market Meltdown

November 25, 2008 · 1 comment

in banks, capitalism, international economy, news and updates, spending

What if “They” (the Fed, central banks, hedge fund managers, I-bankers, etc.) knew all along how bad it was going to be and the last 6-8 months have been a careful, steady public letdown, slowly leaking the info out to the market so as to hopefully attenuate the crash rather than to let it all [...]

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