Talking national debt. “Paying interest on a growing debt. not spent on education, healthcare, roads and bridges, social safety nets, or (if we actually needed more spending on it) national defense.” “Psst:…

…first. Too much political risk. Debt exceeding tax income is the result of new tax cuts. Still this report and graph are accurate. “The Problem of Rising Federal Debt” Published…

…reports student loan debt has increased from 3.1 percent to 9.6 percent. Since 2004, student loan debt among those 60 and older has also grown the fastest of any age…

…debt would not only raise prospects of debt monetization; as DeLong explains, the related loss of market confidence would hit the domestic currency as well as the debt. For such…

…loan issues and debt are still in existence. The debt owed is fare larger now with much of it being accumulated interest on principle. The cause of much of this…

…spending (expenditures other than rent, debt payments, and necessities like medicine and groceries) and savings. The larger a borrower’s monthly student debt payments are relative to their discretionary income, the…

…web application Debt to the Penny. This handy application allows you to track Total Public Debt and its two components Debt Held by the Public and Intragovernmental Holdings to the…

…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…

…is spending cuts.  Of course, lifting the debt ceiling is not an increase in spending.  It just allows the government to make payments on existing debt and to fund spending…

…financial services product in front of them when they’re concerned about their care doesn’t seem appropriate.” Debt Upon Debt Nationwide, about 50 million people — or 1 in 5 adults…