…a four-year college left school with roughly $24,000 of student debt, with ten percent facing debt of $40,000 or more, according to the College Board. Total student loan debt will…

…I get just slightly irked, because it seems to me that the phrase “debt-fueled consumption” strikes the following chord: every American household was loading up on home equity debt just…

…meet that requirement are Treasury Bills, Notes and Bonds and since all of those are included in both ‘Total Public Debt’ and ‘Debt Subject to the Limit’ this means that…

…bond yields and fluke periods of excessive rents combined fortuitously with an absurdist survivor bias. Otherwise, Modigliani-Miller should be correct and when you start measuring corporate returns against Government bonds,…

Dr. Thoma excerpts from Paul Krugman’s NY Times Commentary: Debt and Denial. Dr. Krugman writes: “In 2005 spending on home construction as a percentage of G.D.P. reached its highest level…

…US profit margins, which are still at or around record highs. At some point, logic suggests they will start reverting to the mean. And, aside from events in the eurozone…

…It was possibly right for peripheral European countries trapped in the eurozone. It was right for Argentina. Why is it not right–or not possible for any reasonable probability–for reserve currency-issuing…

…Eurozone , and Japan’s growth anticipated to be 1%. Of course, a breakdown of U.S.-China trade talks, the imposition of new U.S. tariffs on European cars or a disorderly Brexit…

…10yr bonds are 1.5% and 1.2% higher, respectively, since the beginning of 2010, while German 10-yr yields are 1.5% lower. The chart illustrates the 10-yr bonds across the euro area…

…who are economists and readers who live in the Eurozone and whose primary interest is in their own news. But Eurozone news remains quite pertinent to Angry Bear readers, hence…