By Mark Russell, Newser Staff
Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum may hate the US national debt, but for now they have a much more local spending fight on their hands -- their personal campaign costs.
As of the end of April, Santorum had $2.3...
Paul Krugman wrote a good piece today that got me thinking about my favorite monetary contradiction. Have you ever heard someone complain about the size of the national debt as well as the zero interest rate policy currently enacted by the Fed?...
There’s a viral video going around by Tony Robbins on the national debt. Unfortunately, he makes the dreaded error of confusing a currency issuer with a currency user.
Of course, the two can never be compared since a currency issuer has...
Markets posted the biggest weekly drop of 2012, as investors weighed steady domestic-labor and jobs market data amid a backdrop of on-going concerns about Europe's economy.
Short term, traders may be asking whether the stock market can...
Bitter debates about the national debt date back to the earliest days of the Republic, economist Simon Johnson says. Back then, the nation's failure to borrow was the problem. In White House Burning, Johnson and co-author James Kwack explore the...
Who’s afraid of the Big, Bad national debt? Lots of people it seems. And, in case you haven’t noticed, everyone from politicians to investors to think tanks to the media thinks we’re bankrupt.
“The country is technically bankrupt. If...
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