…contribute that much more to total Public Debt (Intragovernmental Holdings combined with Debt Held by the Public) each year. For example you can say all we ‘really’ owe to Social…

…the government to engage in debt-financed investments in infrastructure projects. Ken Rogoff (also of Harvard), on the other hand, believes that we are suffering the downside of a debt supercycle….

…governments do not cast doubt on the pledge to honor their debts – which is why, if reason prevailed, the debt ceiling would simply be scrapped.” Yet instead of endorsing…

…shares. OK this is close to 1. Preferred shares are not debt. The whole key to TARP was that preferred shares are not debt. Government agencies can issue preferred shares…

Barkley Rosser at Econospeak points us to a portion of the nature of debt and borrowing, federal debt, and financing: Can Borrowing From Abroad Avoid The Debt Ceiling? No, but…

…Debt that was borrowed from “the public.” How long that takes to bring the Debt down to a “sustainable level” depends on other spending. The other thing is that it…

spencer National debt now exceeds 10 trillion dollars The national debt is now too big for the national debt clock. Way to go Team Bush. Actually, this just demonstrates that…

Bureau of Public Debt is something I missed in the news. If you would like to help reduce the national debt, make your check payable to the Bureau of the…

…Report of the President 2004 reports Federal debt as a percent of GDP: both total debt and debt held by the public. Since the latter is robbing the lockbox, let’s…

…noted that gross Federal debt was $6760 billion as of 9/30/2003, which means debt rose by $618 billion. It is true that the Economic Report of the President 2004 had…