Barkley Rosser at Econospeak points us to a portion of the nature of debt and borrowing, federal debt, and financing: Can Borrowing From Abroad Avoid The Debt Ceiling? No, but…

…see, there’s one good reason that there should be an Equity Premium. Despite the best efforts of the Delaware Chancery Courts, Equity is still subordinate to debt. If you run…

…then you’re old, first you’re a child, then you’re a parent). But if government eventually has to tax to pay back the debt, the young people in that period are…

…choice but to persuade investors to buy its debt. However, because the United States has its own currency it would always have the option to buy its own debt.” Deficits…

…Debt that was borrowed from “the public.” How long that takes to bring the Debt down to a “sustainable level” depends on other spending. The other thing is that it…

spencer National debt now exceeds 10 trillion dollars The national debt is now too big for the national debt clock. Way to go Team Bush. Actually, this just demonstrates that…

Bureau of Public Debt is something I missed in the news. If you would like to help reduce the national debt, make your check payable to the Bureau of the…

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…

…Report of the President 2004 reports Federal debt as a percent of GDP: both total debt and debt held by the public. Since the latter is robbing the lockbox, let’s…

…noted that gross Federal debt was $6760 billion as of 9/30/2003, which means debt rose by $618 billion. It is true that the Economic Report of the President 2004 had…