by Rebecca Wilder Euro Area ‘Hard Data’ Catching Up with the ‘Soft Data’ – Industrial Production Euro area industrial production (ex construction) declined 0.8% in the month of April. Across…

by Rebecca Wilder The Euro Area Precedent for Policy Failure Last weekend, a leaked Troika report (Troika = ECB + EC + IMF) revealed that European policy makers now comprehend…

…growth over the 2000 to 2007 period. In CY 2008 debt growth goes negative. Here’s a close-up view. So much for optimism-fueled debt growth. Between the non-existent debt surges Sumner…

…calculations of ‘Real Debt’ to use the remainder, which Treasury tracks under the name ‘Debt Held by the Public’. Which to my mind is too close to ‘Public Debt’. But…

…that ? First it is possible to construct an interest rate swap using a portfolio of older assets, bonds, bond futures, short positions on bonds and short positions on bond…

…. . . Recent Quartz article on Private Label and Brand name. Private-label brands are having a moment in 2024, and it’s no coincidence that some of the biggest winners…

…above illustrates the share of Irish and Greek debt by maturity date. 36% of Ireland’s sovereign debt expires through 2015, just half the share of Greek sovereign debt maturing by…

…get a debt buyer out of the market,” she said. Undue Medical Debt pioneered its debt relief strategy a decade ago, leveraging charitable donations to buy medical debt from debt trading companies…

…medical debt. It’s everywhere.” Nationwide, about 100 million people have some form of health care debt. Of those, about 1 in 5 said the debts have forced them to change…

…for Unamortized Discount on Treasury Bills and Zero Coupon Treasury Bonds, Miscellaneous debt (very old debt), Debt held by the Federal Financing Bank and Guaranteed Debt . With the conceptual…