Apr 12 2012

Educating students to debt – Student loan debt now second largest sector of household debt approaching $1 trillion. 14 percent of consumers have one account in collections.

College debt is fueling the out of control higher education bubble.  The Federal Reserve tracks most household debt sectors very carefully including mortgage debt, auto debt, and credit card debt.  You would think that they would follow student loan debt carefully.  That was not the case until recently.  More disturbing however is that student debt […]

Apr 8 2012

The suffocation of unsustainable global debt – Total global debt is now over $190 trillion and more than three times global GDP. Contagion with European Union.

The biggest market in the world is the European Union and debt problems are still rippling through the global markets.  It is apparent with the financial crisis that the global markets are tied together by large banks and interconnected trade.  A problem in the largest market should be unsettling and the unemployment rate in the […]

Apr 2 2012

The creeping cost of consumer inflation brought to you by a lower US dollar – Americans squeezed as inflation filters into the cost of daily life. The uncertain employment market of low wage work.

There are unintended consequences when policy aims at depreciating a currency in favor of bolstering an ailing banking system.  The Federal Reserve has been on a multi-decade mission to lower the value of the US dollar.  The primary purpose of this mission is to inflate banks into solvency as they try to work their way […]

Mar 29 2012

Expanding the debt bubble to a tipping point – US government debt growing 4 times faster than GDP. Retail investors largely out of stock market.

The global market is being held together with the veneer of massive debt duct tape.  The solution for much of the European debt crisis was to simply add more debt to the current situation.  Solve a debt problem with more debt in other words.  All this does is delay the inevitable.  The hope is that […]

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