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December 1, 2007
Randall Dodd |
Subprime: Tentacles of a Crisis The mortgage market turbulence is as much about the breakdown of the structure of U.S. financial markets as it is about bad debt.   |
The Motley Fool
November 7, 2011
John Grgurich |
1 Thing Investors Need to Know About the Looming Debt-Committee Deadline Nov. 23, the deadline for the congressional debt supercommittee to reach an agreement on $1.2 trillion in budget cuts, is rapidly approaching. How will it affect investors? |
The Motley Fool
August 1, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Crisis Averted? The Latest on the Debt Ceiling What you need to know about the mess in Washington. |
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2011
Morgan Housel |
What the Debt Deal Might Do to the Economy Probably nothing good. |
National Defense
February 2013
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
One Fiscal Cliff Down and Three More to Go The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the legislation the president signed Jan. 2 would increase the deficit by nearly $4 trillion over the next 10 years. It is almost certain that defense will have to surrender additional revenue, perhaps another $10 billion to $20 billion per year. |
National Defense
December 2011
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Day of Reckoning Is Approaching: It's Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later The Honorable David Walker, former comptroller general of the United States and now the founder and CEO of the Comeback America Initiative offers thoughts on the budget deficit. |
The Motley Fool
February 9, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Sick of the Budget Deficit? Read This What really sent us over the edge. For one, there was a good round of tax cuts enacted under President Bush. And two wars. You know the story. Moreover, the economy didn't grow as fast as expected. |
The Motley Fool
March 30, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Housing: 24 Hours From the Next Leg Down? In 24 hours, the Federal Reserve will stop buying mortgage-backed securities. When it does, there's a good chance the economy will shift in big ways. |
BusinessWeek
June 17, 2010
Woellert & Stein |
Rising Tab for the Mortgage Mess The bailout of Fannie and Freddie could reach $1 trillion |
BusinessWeek
August 11, 2003
Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
The Bush Tax Cuts Are Sapping America's Strength The cost is nearly three times as much as the tab from September 11, Afghanistan, Iraq, and homeland security combined. |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2011
Morgan Housel |
How the Surplus Became a Deficit Tearing apart CBO's numbers. |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Full Faith and Credit The insanity of playing with the debt ceiling. |
Reason
June 2009
Veronique de Rugy |
The Age of Debt Barack Obama's first budget promises "fiscal responsibility" but delivers the opposite. |
National Defense
July 2012
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Sequestration Looming: Defense Should Be Prepared for All Possible Scenarios If no further legislative action is taken before January, the Budget Control Act directs a reduction of $97 billion in discretionary federal spending for fiscal year 2013. The calculations work out to $42 billion from domestic programs and $55 billion from defense. |
BusinessWeek
April 16, 2007
Dawn Kopecki |
How Big Is The Bite On Fannie And Freddie? Freddie Mac's and Fannie Mae's exposure to risky loans could be bigger than they say. |
BusinessWeek
July 8, 2010
Woellert & Miller |
Time to Rethink Fannie and Freddie The debate has begun on how to reform the mortgage giants. |
The Motley Fool
July 17, 2007
Sham Gad |
What Sparked the Subprime Explosion? Some really smart people have taken one asset -- the plain old mortgage -- and singlehandedly created layers and layers of financial instruments that are predicated on it. Like dominoes, one by one, these securities are now tumbling and leaving investors and homeowners to clean up the mess. |
Reason
January 2009
Michael Flynn |
Anatomy of a Breakdown Concerted government policy helped trigger the financial meltdown -- and will almost certainly extend it. |
National Defense
May 2011
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
What the Latest U.S. Budget Crisis Means for the Future of Defense Even if defense survives significant 2012 budget cuts, the probability is that 2013 or 2014 will be very tough years for military budgets. |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Fannie and Freddie Are Dead. What's Next? Housing, sans Uncle Sam. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Just the Facts: A Look At Obama's Budget Proposal Where spending is rising, and why it's so hard to cut. |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2011
Morgan Housel |
What You Need to Know About the President's Plan to Save $4 Trillion President Barack Obama laid out a plan to slash $4 trillion from the deficit between now and 2023. Here's roughly how it'll get done. |
National Defense
April 2006
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
The Coming Challenge for Defense As we observe ongoing war developments, defense strategy and budget trends, it is impossible to not notice that red flags are everywhere. |
National Defense
October 2012
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Let's Face It: There Is No Shelter From the Fast Rising $$ Storm Defense faces a more than $50 billion reduction per year if sequestration is allowed to occur. Cuts through 2017 of 21 percent are less than the 35 percent reduction after the Cold War wound down, but sequester makes the cut totally arbitrary. |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2011
Ilan Moscovitz |
Next Stop: Economic Armageddon? What failure to raise the debt ceiling means. |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2010
Morgan Housel |
Banks Aren't Lending? Says Who? The popular chant that "banks aren't lending, banks aren't lending!" is grossly misconstrued. |
BusinessWeek
January 19, 2004 |
Bush's Borrowing Is Sapping Our Strength The GOP-led Congressional Budget Office says tax cuts will likely slow growth |
The Motley Fool
November 12, 2010
Morgan Housel |
How the Government Will Save $4 Trillion in 10 Years A rundown of the President's deficit-reduction commission proposal. |
BusinessWeek
October 29, 2009
Henry et al. |
Credit Creaks into Gear With a big boost from the feds, investors again like securities backed by assets like car loans -- but it'll take years for lending to flow freely. |
Knowledge@Wharton
June 18, 2003 |
Fate Worse than Debt: Can the U.S. Deficit Rise to $45.47 Trillion? The U.S. government's future obligations outweigh its projected revenues so heavily that it would need a permanent income tax increase of 66% or the immediate elimination of all federal discretionary spending to put it on track for balancing its finances. |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2007
Rich Duprey |
The Newest Homeowners: Big Banks The vortex of price declines sucking down values could spiral out of the investment bankers' control, leading to their own subprime devaluation. Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek
January 27, 2011
Tony Capaccio |
A Peace Dividend from Troop Withdrawals Obama's budget for Iraq and Afghanistan is said to tumble 26 percent - the lowest amount since 2005. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Fannie Awaits the Wrecking Ball Mortgage guaranty company Fannie Mae is set for demolition after the Fed's recent moves. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Hawk in Hock: Obama pretends to be frugal as we sink deeper in debt The president wants to signal that he's serious about cutting the federal budget. Unfortunately, his plan hinges on the assumption that Americans do not know how to calculate percentages. |
BusinessWeek
February 16, 2004
Howard Gleckman |
The Budget: Hey Guys, Get Real President Bush says he wants to cut the deficit in half by 2009. Here's why that's not likely to happen. |
BusinessWeek
February 3, 2011
Lorraine Woellert |
The Real Estate Lobby Is Ready to Rumble Financiers, homebuilders, and real estate agents are uniting to save mortgage subsidies |
| FDIC FYI |
FYI: An Update on Emerging Issues in Banking Assessing the banking industry's exposure to an implicit government guarantee of gses |
BusinessWeek
December 2, 2010
Przybyla & Faler |
Deficits and Debt as Far as the Eye Can See Neither the President's panel nor the most hawkish budget-cutters would balance the federal budget for decades to come. |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Big Irony From a Big Bank JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon not only avoided the bulk of the financial disaster, but also spent years fortifying JPMorgan's balance sheet in case the Big One hit. But now, he makes one big hypocritical statement. |
CFO
March 1, 2008
Edward Teach |
Thriller The federal government's annual report is not for the faint of heart. |
National Defense
November 2011
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
'Gentlemen, We Have Run Out Of Money; Now We Have to Think' Accepting the reality that the defense budget is going to come down, what must we think about? |
National Defense
March 2013
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
DoD Needs a Real Budget, Not a Partial Fix As the budget standoff continues on Capitol Hill, it is almost certain that sequester soon will be upon the nation. Automatic, across-the-board budget cuts will affect discretionary spending government wide. But everyone wonders how it will all be sorted out. |
Reason
January 2009
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Is Deregulation to Blame? The new Washington consensus says "yes." The facts on the ground say something different. |
Reason
May 2009
Veronique de Rugy |
When Do Deficits Matter? While Democrats and Republicans switch sides regarding deficit spending, economists try to pin down a tipping point. |
U.S. Banker
May 2008 |
As the Credit Crisis Grinds On, Lending Falls Off the Cliff The current climate for loan production might not be Great Depression 2.0, but try telling that to someone with less than perfect credit. |
The Motley Fool
July 23, 2009
Morgan Housel |
The $23.7 Trillion Confusion How much are taxpayers really on the hook for? Tens of trillions less than some expect. |
BusinessWeek
February 14, 2005
Howard Gleckman |
The Fog Of The Budget How Bush will mask the biggest national debt in history. |
BusinessWeek
November 18, 2010
Charlie Rose |
Charlie Rose Talks to Erskine Bowles, Alan Simpson The co-chairs of the U.S. Debt Commission explain the thinking behind their $3.8 trillion fix for America's afflicted budget. |
BusinessWeek
November 17, 2010
Coy & Przybyla |
Debt and Taxes: Will America Ever Grow Up? Two new proposals to get serious about the U.S. budget deficit are colliding with the same old dysfunctional politics. |
BusinessWeek
February 14, 2005 |
Wanted: An Honest Budget Bad news outweighs good as President Bush prepares to announce the next federal budget. |
