consumer Archive
Italian article this am
Banking, Currencies, EU, Financial Times, Germany, Government Spending, Greece, Inflation, Italy
Nov 26, 2012
Misrepresents what I say a bit, but they do have my picture next to JFK! ;) The IMF: sovereign currency, no longer the monopoly of the banks Eliminate the public debt of the United States at once, and do the same with Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Japan, Greece. At the same time
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Consumer Borrowing Rises $5.1 billion
Credit
Jul 08, 2011
Down a bit from April, but the larger question is whether higher gasoline prices led to more borrowing to buy what previously was bought from income. Yes, savings is growing, but that is mainly in the form of reduced and unwanted private sector debt, and not dollars in savings accounts. Consumer Borrowing
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payrolls and sales
Employment
Jul 09, 2010
Makes perfect sense to me that payrolls would be a function of sales.
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Total Credit decline from $2,475 billion to $2,463
Credit, Deficit, Government Spending
Oct 08, 2009
[Skip to the end] Two things: 1. Sales remain soft. 2. The federal deficit spending facilitates the same amount of sales with less credit. > > (email exchange) > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Dave wrote: > > Yet another month where the decline in consumer credit comes in worse than
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