…of medical debt, limit coercive debt collections practices, and purchase and eliminate medical debt. Since publishing our report on state laws governing medical debt, at least 12 states have taken further action to…

…happened with bond yields, and the comparative moves in stock prices, since. The 10 year Treasury bond (dark blue) made a low of 3.63% on September 16. In the below…

Update appended. 5/17 at 1:37 p.m. —- I’ve written several times in the last three-plus years about a Supreme Court case called Bond v. U.S. Actually, to be precise, Bond…

…Draghi that the ECB would do “whatever it takes” to keep the eurozone intact. The ECB’s reputation would be damaged greatly should crisis recur in Spain, Portugal, Ireland, etc., now…

…some illustrations of the polarizing of bond markets that’s coincident with the euro area bond crisis. (Notice I do not say currency crisis because it’s really the bond markets that…

…unreasonable cases, but if it is reasonable that the off-label use of the drug might have caused the damage, then the encouraged off-label use would lead to an assumption of…

…Debt The average law school debt is more than four times higher than the average undergraduate student debt but still only two-thirds of the average medical school debt. The average starting salary…

…policies of the European Central Bank (ECB). The ECB has a single mandate: maintain price stability. The limitations of that charge became quite clear during the global financial crisis, but…

…must consider. External vs. domestic debt Japan has a lot of gross debt but most of it is issued domestically. Total foreign debt – debt held by foreign investors –…

…billion. Oh noes! Why the disconnect? Because Trust Fund surpluses score as debt for the purpose of total Public Debt. If we go to the Treasury’s Debt to the Penny…