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TD Ameritrade Conference: Simpson, Bowles Offer Straight Talk on Debt Reduction
By John SullivanThe Friday morning general session of TD Ameritrade’s national conference in San Diego featured a conversation with former U.S. Senator Alan…
February 01, 2011
A Holiday in CambodiaAuthor and foreign policy expert Ian Bremmer recounts a meeting with a highly-placed Chinese official in the wake of the recent financial crisis in which the official began, “Now that the free market has failed …”
February 01, 2011
Executives Worldwide See Spending Cuts as Top Fix for Government DebtA survey by RBC Capital Markets said that top business executives worldwide, concerned about the level of debt in their nations’ economies, saw spending cuts, not tax increases, as the chief remedy for governments.
January 27, 2011
S&P Cuts Japan’s Rating for First Time Since 2002; Euro RisesStandard & Poor’s cut Japan’s sovereign debt rating by one notch on Thursday, saying that the nation “lacks a coherent strategy” to cope with a debt level that it predicts will only peak in the mid-2020s.
January 26, 2011
Treasury’s Toxic Mortgage Program Making MoneyThe Legacy Securities Public-Private Investment Program undertaken by the government in an effort to stabilize the real estate market appears to be hitting pay dirt—for both investors and taxpayers.
January 23, 2011
Germany Continues to Balk at Increasing Europe Rescue FundGermany’s Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Sunday that comments by Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Union’s commission, that the amount of the European rescue fund should be increased were “not helpful.”
January 18, 2011
Consumer Credit Defaults Fall: S&P-Experian IndexConsumer defaults fell in December, with auto loans showing the largest decline, according to data released Tuesday by Standard & Poor’s and Experian.
January 17, 2011
Christie, Pawlenty Push for No Raise in Debt CeilingGov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., and former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn., on Fox News Sunday, spoke in favor of a hard line on spending, to the extent that government shutdown should be part of the discussion.