…outstanding debt to the public because the remaining obligations will mostly consist of savings bonds, well-entrenched holdings of long-term marketable debt, and perhaps other types of debt that could prove…

…those with medical debt say their mental health deteriorated while in debt, which strains relationships and lowers self-esteem. The problem of skyrocketing medical debt has drawn intense scrutiny from the…

…for reference, also included the total Federal Debt. Graph 1 TCMDO, GDP and Total Federal Debt In 1950, TCMDO was about 1.3 times GDP, but growing a bit more quickly….

…question — is public debt a burden on future generations. It is possible in theory that the answer is no and that higher public debt causes permanently higher consumption and…

…between debt held by the government and debt held in the non-government sector. All debt is not created equal. Private debt has to be serviced using the currency that the…

…turning BBB loans into AAA-rated bonds. “I didn’t understand how they were turning all this garbage into gold,” he says. He brought some of the bond people from Goldman Sachs,…

…the US with those of the euro zone: Over the past six months an unusual gap has opened up between German government bond yields and US government bond yields. This…

…result is that a very large percentage of debt service on the Long Bond, a dollar amount that is recorded as an Outlay on the Federal Budget is effectively rebated…

…of this issue. For those who are not familiar with the bond market, here is how it works.  The sale of Treasury bonds is how the US government borrows money. …

…European Central Bank survey showed. “The ECB’s Consumer Expectations Survey, Conducted in March before Trump had even announced, and later paused his tariff blitz, unexpectedly showed a change in preference…