All Posts Tagged With: "national debt"

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Try Your Hand at Solving the National Debt Crisis

Show Washington how it’s done. Play Budget Hero. Solve the National Debt Crisis, and be home in time for dinner.

26Sep2008 | Lisa | 0 comments | Continued
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The Dope on National Debt Revisited

In light of the gloom and doom IOUSA movie released last week, I thought it relevant to repeat my post from March on National Debt.  Check out these statistics.  You think you have debt problems.
The post:
Are you sitting down?
The US National Debt is 9.5 trillion dollars. If you divide that by the U.S. population, that [...]

24Aug2008 | Lisa | 6 comments | Continued
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The Dope On Stagflation

(This is a repeat of an article I published March 1st, with some modifications)
From 1969-1982 the United States experienced its worst economic slow down since the depression. Deemed as a period of stagflation (stagnation + inflation),Richard Samuelson, in a recent Newsweek article, described it this way: “a spiraling combination of high (or rising) inflation, high [...]

22Jun2008 | Lisa | 3 comments | Continued
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The Dope on National Debt

Are you sitting down?
The US National Debt is 9.5 trillion dollars. If you divide that by the U.S. population, that means each American owes 31 thousand dollars. We are all paying interest on this money through our taxes.
The government adds to the national debt by not balancing the budget each year. Its current budget [...]

30Mar2008 | Lisa | 12 comments | Continued