Showing posts with label U.S. debt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S. debt. Show all posts
Saturday, June 13, 2020

12/6/20: American Love Affair with Debt: Part 2: Leverage Risk

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I have earlier updated the data on the total real private economic debt in the U.S. as of the end of 1Q 2020 here:  https://trueeconomics....

12/6/20: American Love Affair With Debt: Pre-COVID Saga

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Latest data for debt levels at the U.S. non-financial businesses and households (including non-profits) is out this week. So here are the ...
Monday, February 18, 2019

18/2/19: U.S. Treasuries: Not Finding Much Love in Foreign Lands

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In recent months, I have been warning about the cliff of new bonds issuance that is coming for the U.S. Treasuries in 2019, pressured by t...
Friday, February 15, 2019

15/2/19: Nothing to Worry About for those Fiscally Conservative Republicans

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H/T to @soberlook: U.S. Federal deficit was up $192 billion y/y in December 2018. Nothing to worry about, as fiscal prudence has been ...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

13/6/17: Four Months of the Invisible Fiscal Discipline

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U.S Treasury latest figures (through May 2017) for Federal Government’s fiscal (I’m)balance are an interesting read this year for a number...
Friday, May 19, 2017

19/5/17: A Reminder: Social Security is Only Getting More Insolvent...

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On foot of my earlier post on U.S. household debt, it is worth mentioning another, much-overlooked in the media, fact concerning U.S. rea...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

20/1/17: Obama Legacy: Debt

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Great chart via @Schuldensuehner showing that Trump presidency is off to a cracking start, courtesy of Obama legacy: debt overhang No...
Friday, November 20, 2015

20/11/15: U.S. Households' Deleveraging: Painful & Long

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An interesting set of charts plotting trends in U.S. household credit arrears over time, courtesy of the @SoberLook Three things s...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

10/8/2014: Inflating Away the Public Debt? Not so fast...

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There is a lot of talk amongst Irish and european policymakers about the big great hope for deflating public debts across euro area periph...