
WARREN BUFFETT: 'The Debt Itself Is Not A Problem'
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CBS's Rebecca Jarvis had a brief profile on billionaire Warren Buffett this morning.
The New York Times set out to define what "middle class" means in Manhattan.
It was an earthshaking rant, arguing that Wall Street was in horrible shape, and that the Fed was asleep at the wheel
Ron Paul on what's ahead, if the DC gangsters get their way
“Bernanke is quite correct, it is theatrics,” Doug Casey tells The Daily Ticker. “The problem is the amount of debt itself. The problem is so big at this point, I think it’s very questionable whether this can be solved at all.”
Some readers have said that they want good news from me and are tired of hearing about the country being broke and stealing money from the frugal and productive in a futile attempt to stop the fiscal bleeding. Okay, here are two items of good news:
If you want to frighten Baby Boomers, just show them the list of statistics in this article.
Are you a saver and thus someone who provides capital for investment, for job growth and for national prosperity? Then you're a fool. Like me. Shame on you. Shame on me. Read the following to see why.
Call it "X Date", call it "D(elinquent/efault)-Day", call it what you will: it is simply the day past which the US government will no longer be able to rely on "extraordinary measures" to delay the day of reckoning, and will be unable to pay all its
The birth, and the apparent death, of the trillion dollar platinum coin idea may one day be recalled as a mere footnote in the current debt crisis drama.
The number of Americans receiving money directly from the federal government has grown from 94 million in the year 2000 to over 128 million today.
As stocks have risen in recent years, the big hedge funds and the "too big to fail" banks have used borrowed money to make absolutely enormous profits.
U.S. retail sales rose solidly in December as Americans shrugged off the threat of higher taxes and bought automobiles and a range of other goods, suggesting momentum in consumer spending as the year ended.
President Barack Obama scheduled a surprise news conference for 11:15 a.m. EST (1615 GMT) on Monday to press his case for raising the U.S. borrowing limit.
Just when you think that the media can’t get any more herd-like, shallow, formulaic, unquestioning, and misleading, they prove otherwise. Their angst over tuition loans is a case in point.
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Have you heard about the trillion dollar platinum coin proposal to avert a debt ceiling crisis next month?
President Barack Obama will deliver the State of the Union Address on Feb. 12 this year after he accepted House Speaker John Boehner's invitation this morning.
A $1 trillion-dollar coin seems like a high denomination to ask the government to print.
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Democratic leaders in the Senate urged President Obama to consider bypassing Congress to prevent the nation from defaulting on its spending obligations if lawmakers cannot agree to raise the nation’s $16.4 trillion debt ceiling next month.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made his biggest push yet to make jobs growth part of the Bank of Japan's mandate as his government approved $117 billion of spending to revive the economy in the biggest stimulus since the financial crisis.
Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor who oversees stakes in some of the largest U.S. banks, said the nation’s lenders have rebuilt capital to the point where they no longer pose a threat to the economy.
Tim Geithner is in his final days as Treasury Secretary, as Obama officially nominated Jack lew to take over his role.
The U.S. hits the debt ceiling and begins the process of defaulting on its debt on February 15, 2013, a day known as the "X date".
Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor who oversees stakes in some of the largest U.S. banks, said the nation’s lenders have rebuilt capital to the point where they no longer pose a threat to the economy.
America's government is full of oddities, and here's one: it is possible for the government to pass spending and tax bills which lead to an illegal amount of accumulated debt.
In November the largest chunk of new jobs came from retail and wholesale trade. Businesses gearing up for Christmas sales added 65,700 jobs or 45% of November's 146,000 jobs gain.
Creating and sustaining a nation of zombies is expensive.
Do you believe that economic trouble is coming in 2013?