Showing posts with label federal debt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label federal debt. Show all posts
Friday, March 11, 2011

Does Getting Out of Debt Mean that People Should Start Spending More?

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From the Wall Street Journal this morning: “U.S. families—by defaulting on their loans and scrimping on expenses—shouldered a smaller debt b...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Bailouts or Defaults?

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This question is the defining question in finance and economics today. Yet, the predominant approach used in macroeconomic policymaking does...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The Problem with Debt

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The economy is recovering. The areas that seem to show the most life are those sectors that have had sufficient debt relief so as to be abl...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Building an Exit Strategy at the Federal Reserve--Part Two

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Yesterday, I discussed what I saw as the reasoning behind the strategy the Federal Reserve is building to reduce the massive amount of exces...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

It's the Dollar, Stupid!

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“A nation’s exchange rate is the single most important price in its economy.” Paul Volcker The value of the United States dollar is heading ...
Sunday, July 5, 2009

Deficits and the Declining Value of the Dollar

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One of the questions that has arisen from the posts I have put up over the last several months has to do with my statement that the internat...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Has the Monetization Really Started?

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Headlines on the Wall Street Journal website Thursday afternoon, “Treasurys Climb After Solid Auction.” (See http://online.wsj.com/article/S...
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