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White House economic adviser struggles with question on monetary policy
FOX Business· 3 days agoOne of MMT's central tenets is that government budget deficits don't matter for countries like the...
Warren Buffett predicts higher taxes due to rising deficit
Fox Business via AOL· 1 day agoWarren Buffett said at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting he thinks the federal government will...
No, the Bond Market Isn’t About to Implode. The Case for Boring.
Barrons.com· 9 hours agoIn recent years, the foreign sector has played a big role in financing U.S. government borrowing....
Social Security Funds Are Running Dry. Don’t Panic.
The Wall Street Journal· 20 hours agogovernment programs but won’t touch Social Security. Social Security is helping fuel the government’s overall spending challenges. Spending on Social...
U.S. Treasury Bonds Have Gotten Harder to Sell. This Week Could Be Different.
Barrons.com· 8 hours agoThat means that it will plow back into Treasuries a bigger share of the money it receives when its...
David Ditch: Wasteful government spending adds up – and all of us pay the price
Dothan Eagle· 6 days agoThe latest inflation numbers show a 3.5% annual growth for consumer prices, still well above...
Provincial governments facing higher debts and more financial pressure
CBC via Yahoo News· 3 days agoAfter riding a red-hot economy to shrink deficits and grow surpluses, provincial governments across...
Hicks: Soaring national debt means cities need to prepare for cuts
IndyStar | The Indianapolis Star via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoRight now, the federal government is spending about 23.4% of GDP, while collecting taxes of...
Two Things: Impending job cuts at WSSU could have been avoided; Guilford commissioners to consider...
Winston-Salem Journal· 15 hours agoWSSU officials, like their counterparts at UNCG earlier this year, are looking at hard choices in...
The $34 trillion U.S. debt is nearly as big as the economy and there’s (still) no plan to fix it
Fortune via AOL· 6 days agoAs it turns out, the national debt is...Pew Research Center survey about the public’s policy...