…here) to trough and recovery of GDP across the G4 (Eurozone, UK, US, and Japan). None of the G4 have returned to 2008 Q1 levels of production (pre-2008). Ironically, as…

…others when you feel like it. But there is an important extra consideration, debt: our freedom in an individualist world is constrained by obligations to repay the debts we have…

…is simple: debt. Without debt there would be no “economic growth.” Debt finances growth; growth services debt. And they all lived happily ever after. But some debt takes “riskier forms.”…

…Harvard professors and noted by a U Mass Amherst student). I am old enough to remember warnings about the national debt in the 70s, before Reagan, when the debt to…

“Who got rich off the student debt crisis?” – Reveal (revealnews.org), James B. Steele and Lance Williams A bit of a story of how we got to this student loan debt debacle….

…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…

…by foreign currency-denominated debt. Their results provide evidence for both channels that is consistent with expectations: the trade-weighted index has a negative elasticity, while the debt-weighted index has a positive…