Mar 22 2012

A costly lesson in student debt for young Americans – 34 percent of all student debt saddled to those under the age of 30. 47 percent of student loan borrowers appear to be in deferral or forbearance.

The student loan market has expanded like a financial virus in the last decade.  Even during the financial meltdown where credit was being restricted across all sectors of the economy, student debt kept on growing at a feverish pitch.  It would be one thing if the quality of education had increased or wages were going […]

Mar 19 2012

Little Known Ways the Federal Reserve Punishes American Savers and Supports Conspicuous Consumption.

The Federal Reserve is one of the most mysterious organizations in the world.  What they don’t hold back on however is their intentions for the American saver.  They are one of the biggest key players in the financial bailouts yet very little is ever discussed about this organization on national or even cable television.  The […]

Mar 8 2012

How does an America with no middle class look like? Bureau of Labor and Statistics projects top two jobs for the next decade will pay roughly $20,000 a year. Approval rating of Congress at 10 percent. In comparison, Americans approved of BP’s handling of the Gulf oil crisis at a 16 percent rate.

A strong middle class has been at the core of what has been promoted as the American Dream.  How would America look like if the middle class simply vanished?  We may not need to wait too long at the current rate since we are quickly siphoning people off the middle class and throwing them into […]

Feb 27 2012

The kamikaze debt market deleveraging– Total credit market debt balloons to $53 trillion while US households pushed to deleverage. While American household debt has fallen by $569 billion total credit market debt is up $3 trillion.

When it comes to taking the bitter austerity medicine not all participants are shouldering the burden when it comes to the financial market bailouts.  The American worker and family have largely been in a massive round of deleveraging from an overhang of debt.  The data shows us this with household market debt falling by $569 […]

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