…of Debt / GDP is rising faster than the change in Debt indicating that both the increase in Debt and the fall in GDP are contributing to a rising Debt…

…within and between generations. With some real numbers and associated tools. With commentary mostly defered until (duh) Comments. Total U.S. Public Debt (to the Penny) http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/current Public Debt: $17,472,131,682,925.49 in…

…of the special investment vehicles designed to pump and dump mortgages belong to European not American banks … Euro banks listed their periphery debt as Tier One Capital under Basel.)…

…values imply a 39% probability of default by the Irish sovereign (listed in legend), 20% by that of Spain, and 14% by the Italian sovereign, etc. Cash bond spreads are…

…(or default). That’s why the level of private debt, not sovereign debt, is the big management problem—a problem that neoclassical economics has not tackled, does not even have the theoretical…

…1/1 replace episode = episode[_n-1]+1-(debtcat==debtcat[_n-1])*(cntry==cntry[_n-1]) in 2/1175 gen debtct1 = debtgdp<30 gen debtct2 = (debtgdp<60)*(debtgdp>=30) gen debtct3 = (debtgdp<90)*(debtgdp>=60) gen debtct4 = debtgdp>90 gen debtm90 = (debtgdp-90)*(debtgdp>90) gen l5debtgdp =…

…on debt are increasingly unable to pay it off. Many who have not even received diplomas are saddled with the debt. Alan Collinge in his commentary2 gives numbers to the…

…the federal debt as the amount of principal that the government is obligated to repay. Thus, while a normal U.S. Treasury bond increases the national debt as defined by the…

…Congressional Budget Office’s baseline will add another $2.9 trillion to the debt. Although most of our national debt was issued when interest rates were low, that debt is rolling over into a…

…country to make the late payments. Whether or not Venezuela’s situation can be resolved, the outlook for the sovereign debt of emerging markets and developing economies is worrisome. The incentive…