…more money into the country. Trade deficits, the reverse. (U.S. trade deficits of $30-70 billion a year are pretty small change compared to the first two money mechanisms. Correction: That…

…I’m thinking this is largely the result of increasing homeowner (mortgage) debt over that period — they borrowed more, kept their loan balances high and inflating both their own and…

…the American economy, (changes in) America’s and China’s current-account balances, etc? We can somewhat arbitrarily predict discount rates, growth rates, etc. etc., but a tiny change in any one of…

…explains why Revenue stays the same until 2017. Note that Trust Fund balances never decline in nominal dollar terms although the Trust Fund Ratio does. But in this data series…

…postive numbers indicate positive actuarial balances for the program in question over that period under that assumption and so represent a program that is “fixed” for the period in question….

…of us know by now the Social Security Trust Funds are required by law to maintain its reserves/balances in interest earning securities guaranteed as to principal and interest by the…

…There must also be many firms that are not hiring which balances in the aggregate the firms that want to hire. For all that the Chinese firms would love to…

John Bluedorn and Shengzu Wang wrote a post on the IMF blog called, Euro Area: An Unbalanced Rebalancing? They talk about the unbalanced Current Account trade balances within Europe where…

…prescribed by Bacon’s natural history; the method of keeping accompts, with its several proportional checks and informal attitude to population totals; a mercantile system of natural and intrinsic balances, embracing…

…poor to be creditors, to have money in the bank and bonds in their portfolio rather than mortgages and credit-card balances outstanding. Higher inflation means debtors pay off their loans…