The Politics of Debt

Commentary about macro-economics, economic trends and observations on economics.

If you are honestly against subsidized health care, I want to ask you that starting tomorrow, and for consistency sake, you stop using the list of products listed below. You see, this is not an all encompassing list, it’s just the beginning of the list of products that you should be worried about.
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• Economic data supporting the need of health care reform
• On long term trends
• Gold Correction Seems Over
• Some Historical Perspective on the Current Recession
• And Now They Tell US
• Rally to Begin for At Least Two Months
• The Timing of the "Liquidity Crisis"
• Congress expected to pass financial rescue package: Getting Ready for a Deeper Recession
• On The Wall Street Bailout
• The Terrible Plot of The American Economy
• Revisiting a post from May
• What’s Happening to The Republic
• The Oncoming Depression
• The need for re-industrializing America
• Why fundamental analysis of commodities is wrong, and irrational
• This 4th of July…
• Why Gann, Elliott Wave and Kondratiev Studies Fail
• The Real Economy III: The People’s GDP
• American Workers’ Dwindling Participation in America’s Riches
• Remember When We Were Rich?
• US Economy: Fit, Fat or Bloated?
• The Richest Country On Earth
• The Gold Scam
• A Streetcar Named Wishful Economic Thinking
• You Are Not Going to Be Rich
• Facts Over Fear
• The House must not fail freedom
• Why Current Inflation Hurts So Much?
• Good Read
• New projects underway
• The Social-Networking Site for Traders and Investors is Born
• The Case for Gold as the Next Bubble Instrument (and How to Play it Safe)
• Is Gold the Object of the Next Bubble?
• Great Projects for 2008
• Holidays are over!
• Apple’s IPhone, Macintosh Push Shares to Record High
• Housing Market Bottom?
• Black Swans, Bell Curves and Stagflation
• Greenspan: Give Homeowners Financial Aid: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance
• Things That Go Bump in the Night
• Disposable Personal Income Shows Disturbing Historical Trend
• Universal Health Care: How Stupid Have They Figured Out We Are?
• Oh. The unpredictability of the markets
• Timing The October High And November Bottom Of Dow Jones
• How Your 401k And IRA Rob You
• The Rags To Riches Trap
• Retailers post disappointing November sales – MarketWatch
• Dow Jones: Announced 2-day Pullback Over
• Is Gold a Hedge Against Excess Liquidity?
• The Myth Of Gold as Inflation Hedge
• US Businesses in Recession-Like Mode
• The Myth of Republican Fiscal Conservatism
• Dow Jones 13,252. Not All Clear Yet
• Dow Jones Ready for Next Leg Down
• First Thanksgiving Grace in History
• Transfer of Wealth from Individuals to Corporations
• Stagflation: This Time It Is Different
• Dow Jones Finds A Convoluted Way to Do Nothing
• Everything you wanted to know about ISVs
• Dow Jones at 13,099 should see a rest
• The Real Economy II
• Dow Jones at 13,300.02
• From the American Dream to the American Nightmare
• After exiting two weeks the Dow Jones goes nowhere
• Asia volatile ahead of US data
• Dow Jones 400 to 600 more points of pain
• Economics and thermodynamics
• Bad News For the Dow (Short Term Bear Fest)
• Official Reports Confirm Economy Worse Than in 2000
• Banks Drive to Grab Land
• The real economy
• Is the Dow Jones at a new high?
• President Bush, support our troops!
• Strong jobs report brings relief
• Vogue launches in India
• Loonie nears $1.02 US on strong jobs report
• Tech to Bolster Bay Area Economy
• And we got increased volatility
• Expect increased volatility
• I have $ 100,000,000,000 and yet I can’t retire
• Let the party begin. We will be dead tomorrow
• How to survive hyperinflation
• At a financial crossroads
• African-American and Latinos Hardest Hit by Foreclosure Crisis
• Bernanke’s creative solution: Let’s do it again
• Edwards on the mortage mess