The idea behind it: A plan to reign in out our spiralling deficit and national debt. Why do it? Because without this or something li...

When you squeeze a balloon it just bulges out at a different place, that seems to be happening to the PIIGS (although now it is just PI...

Credit Default Swaps hit a record high yesterday for Irish Sovereign Debt. CNBC spoke to Brian Cowen on this topic yesterday, our Stude...

We hear about Debt/GDP all the time (national debt/Gross Domestic Product; total output of the economy) and the standard argument is th...

We have been talking about this for a while (28/01/09, 11/03/09, 23/04/09), it was a popular topic on this blog in 2009 but well covere...

The US Private Debt to GDP chart is one that concerns me, it spells ‘deleveraging for many years’ in big bold letters. You don’t need m...

Having only covered competitive currency devaluations yesterday it is interesting to see this video today in which CNBC correspondent B...

I have been talking for some time about a ‘rip off’ that the US will attempt to make against China, that it could take a belligerent fo...

I volunteer with a group called Smart Taxes who are a sustainable taxation think tank. This has post is taken from their site (original...

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