Seven Big Economic Lies
Do tax cuts for the rich trickle down to the rest of us? And does taxing the rich hurt the economy? Is Social security a Ponzi scheme? Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, presents his list of seven popular-wisdom economic claims that are untrue. Feel free to debate.
The Truth About The National Debt
A picture being worth a thousand words, ‘n all that…
[Thanks to Aaron Cohen]
Obama’s Kickstarter Project For America
Well, it’s finally come to this: the only way out for America is to raise funds the way everyone else does these days. Donate to Obama’s Kickstarter, or America gets canceled. And vote for Zombama in 2020.
U.S. Government Told Japan: Buy Our Bonds Or We Shut Down Toyota
Max Keiser talks with Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt, about the Fed, the debt and Obama’s budget.
20 Economic Weapons Of Mass Destruction That Could Trigger Global Debt Time Bomb
Paul B. Farrell sounds the alarm for the day of reckoning that all of us debtors know is coming, in Marketwatch:
Retire? You can fuggetaboutit if the new Global Debt Time Bomb is detonated by any one of 20 made-in-America trigger mechanisms.
Yes, 20. And yes, any one can destroy your retirement because all 20 are inexorably linked, a house-of-cards, a circular firing squad destined to self-destruct, triggering the third great Wall Street meltdown of the 21st century, igniting the Great Depression II that George W. Bush, Ben Bernanke, Henry Paulson and now President Obama have simply delayed with their endless knee-jerk, debt-laden wars, stimulus bonanzas and bailouts.
Wow, what an epic Hollywood blockbuster this will make: You know the drama, can’t miss the warnings. The financial press is flooding us with plot lines … a Forbes cover story focuses on a “Global Debt Bomb: How It Could Wreck Your Life” … Leaders at the World Economic Forum on Swiss Mt. Davos fear another global meltdown will trigger mass rebellions … The Economist calls the plot a “Global Asset Bubble,” with cheap money fast driving up asset prices…
U.S. National Debt Tops Debt Limit
Mark Knoller writes at CBSNews.com:
The latest calculation of the National Debt as posted by the Treasury Department has – at least numerically – exceeded the statutory Debt Limit approved by Congress last February as part of the Recovery Act stimulus bill.
The ceiling was set at $12.104 trillion dollars. The latest posting by Treasury shows the National Debt at nearly $12.135 trillion.
A senior Treasury official told CBS News that the department has some “extraordinary accounting tools” it can use to give the government breathing room in the range of $150-billion when the Debt exceeds the Debt Ceiling.
Were it not for those “tools,” the U.S. Government would not have the statutory authority to borrow any more money. It might block issuance of Social Security checks and require a shutdown of some parts of the federal government…
[continues at CBSNews.com]
