Greg Mankiw attempting to justify carried interest
…to take a stable, money-making company that wasn’t heavily debt-ridden, load it up with debt to cover the acquisition cost of the company, and use the cash flows from the…
…to take a stable, money-making company that wasn’t heavily debt-ridden, load it up with debt to cover the acquisition cost of the company, and use the cash flows from the…
…card debt rather than, say, mortgage debt, or student-loan debt, or car-purchase debt owed as monthly car payments (and necessary for the family breadwinners to get to work). Or why…
…have more than $1.7 trillion in S.&P.-rated bonds and loans maturing from 2011 to 2014. The total debt load coming due will climb steadily over the next four years, with…
…rather paradoxically actually serve to increase such obligations over the long term. Which suggests that if we want to do more than shift Public Debt obligations around in time but…
…it but…I used my credit union.) Yes, I’m driving up the debt, but I’m creating jobs and I’m build wealth. I purchased locally to assure my bank supplied money (debt)…
…the circular flow of the economy that must be offset by a leakage. In other words, leveraged consumption will eventually be balanced by de-leveraging. Wages are not a debt, but…
…ignore their share of paying the debt. In contrast, when discussing public policy, people ignore the fact that the y Treasury’s debt is someone’s asset. They may believe (incorrectly) that…
…personal finance manager, working with National Debt Relief to alleviate the stresses of debt through consolidation and advisement.) 5 Reasons Why Student Loan Debts Are Only Increasing The debate rages…
Yves Smith writes: So bad economic times increase income disparity even among the young, and that will also make it even harder for them to contend with debt. I’ll return…
Via Digsby Oh, my goodness. Can it be that Fix the Debt is using patented right wing astroturf tactics?Say it ain’t so! Our friend Jon Romano, press secretary for the…