Articles, tagged with "national debt", page 1

Preparing For Socialized Health Care

President Obama’s healthcare reform bill became law in March 2010 with the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Since Medicare and Medicaid were introduced, this represents the most noteworthy change of the healthcare system ... Read >
Author: simondavisnew

Retailers and Politicians Are Still in Denial While They Focus on Window Dressing

Copyright (c) 2011 Alison Withers Yet again retailers have blamed the weather for stagnant sales, only this time it was a couple of weeks of unexpected sunshine in September rather than the three weeks of snow that were blamed for dire pre-Christmas sa... Read >
Author: Ali Withers

Budget Deficits, Media Hype, and the US Economy

The past three years have been a trying time for a notable portion of the United States citizenry. As a country, we have muddled through TARP, quantitative easing, real estate short sales, QE2 and a load of other bail out anachronisms in hopes of solving ... Read >
Author: David S Adams

Low Consumer Confidence and the Spending Cycle

We all know that consumer spending accounts for about 70% of the gross domestic product (GDP) growth in this country. And when confidence is low, you also know consumers may be more hesitant to spend, holding back on any major purchases, such as homes, ve... Read >
Author: profitconfidential

The Impact on UK of the European and US Debt Crises

The European perspective of the ongoing debt crises in various countries seems to be somewhat more positive than is generally the view in the UK. According to Ansgar Belke, financial markets expert with the DIW, the Institute for Economic Research, Ger... Read >
Author: Ali Withers

Dental Marketing Strategies Need to Be Used by Dental Practices to Endure Potential Financial Downtu

The 2008 recession put many small organizations, such as entrepreneurs and medical and dental physicians out of business. Those that were able to pull through are facing the pressure of another decline if the federal government fails to resolve solutions ... Read >
Author: OliverGriffith

How To Spend $9 Trillion Over 10 Years

In the year 2001, the national debt stood at $5.8 trillion. Today that figure has more than doubled to $14.3 trillion. This $9 trillion increase over the past ten years can be attributed to government expenses, particularly with the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts... Read >
Author: mathewowens

Putting the Japan to U.S. Economic Comparison to Rest

One of the most common questions I hear these days: “Is the U.S. headed in the same direction of the Japan economy of 1990s?” The big fear is that we are headed to 10 years of deflation, as Japan experienced in its “lost decade.” Yes, there many simila... Read >
Author: profitconfidential

Gold Is Not Money - Can Stopping To Buy Gold Rescue The Us Dollar?

Most people in the United States would agree that politicians up to and including the current administration need not done the US dollar any favors. With trillions in spending and an out of control national debt, the populous seems poised to catch rid of ... Read >
Author: Gen Wright

Don’t Just Look to Europe; U.S. Has Its Own Issues

We have the PIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) battling with debt issues in Europe. Spain is not fully there yet, but may inevitably need to find money. These countries are referred to as the PIGS because of their need for financial help. Stoc... Read >
Author: profitconfidential

An Early Obituary for the Euro

Does America want members of the 17 eurozone countries to go bankrupt one by one? If only a few went under, the American currency would win the currency wars and reaffirm itself as the reserve currency of the world. If you were someone living outside t... Read >
Author: profitconfidential

Could the Greek Financial Crisis be the end of the EU as we know it?

Years of unrestrained spending, cheap lending and failure to implement financial reforms left Greece badly exposed when the global economic downturn struck. This whisked away a curtain of partly fiddled statistics to reveal debt levels and deficits that e... Read >
Author: Harris Samaras

Experiencing Debt Help via a Debt Management Plan

Debt Management Plans (DMPs) are much in news reports these days. Some adverse aspects of the industry made the biggest headlines. Like any industry a few bad apples can give the barrel a bad name. In Britain the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has recently ... Read >
Author: Cliff May

Gold: An Even Stronger Argument for Investors to Have Exposure

With the price of gold bullion hitting a new record high this morning, as Moody’s Investor Services says it’s placing the U.S. credit rating under review for downgrade, my mind wandered to my core beliefs about gold. What I realized is that my opinion ... Read >
Author: profitconfidential

Economy and Debt: America on the Brink?

I’ll try my best not to be sarcastic this morning… But what happened to all theU.S.jobs we were promised were headed our way? The Labor Department reported this morning that only 18,000 new jobs were created in June 2011, the lowest monthly job growth ... Read >
Author: profitconfidential

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