In reading around on reactions to the defeat of the TAA (Trade Adjustment Authority) component of the TAA/TPA (Trade Promotion Authority) Package needed to successfully pass TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership)…

Rdan Firedoglake presents a well written piece on US and Chinese trade policy: China’s Industrial Policy vs. US Random Behavior The U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission has issued…

…Dale Coberly’s numbers for 2013 Northwest Plan with three calculated columns added by me. Those are the three with “Cost-Non Interest Income” as part or all of their label. Which…

…account.3 Fixed-price assets. (The “price” of a dollar bill is always one dollar.) This is a subset of #2. Mostly checking- and money-market deposit balances, and physical cash. “How much ‘cash’ do…

…did not help either as it resulted in more spending. Food companies also added to the issues with increasing prices and cutting package sizes. Can’t label them Schooner Tuna examples,…

…its zombie existence in the textbooks. Open your wallet again: Yes, you see things called dollars, but most likely you also see a piece of pallastic labeled Visa or Mastercard….

…that conform to accounting identities and balances, but are nevertheless wrong. • Accounting tells us exactly nothing about how people will behave, nor can it cause or constrain that behavior….

…actual decrease in TF balances or in other words a cashing in of principal in the form of Special Treasuries. But back to cash flow. Determining it for any given…

…background set, lets see how Social Security Trust Fund Operations interact with the Debt Limit. And the answer is simple, though a little counter-intuitive. If Trust Fund principal balances go…

…(see Federal Reserve release). One can argue about the merits of including credit cards balances as “money”, per se. However, the sharp reversal of revolving consumer credit, and likely through…