Tue 2007-12-04 00:00 EST
debt Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Fri 2007-11-30 00:00 EST
Sudden Debt: CDS: Phantom Menace
CDS notional amounts increased from 26 to 46 trillion in last year; "far more CDSs are written relative to the amounts outstanding in individual bonds and thus credit events will infect and destroy much more speculative capital"; "generate highly volatile equity exposure with minimal or even zero margin requirements"
Mon 2007-10-08 00:00 EDT
Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - The Adam Smith Institute
(Book Five, Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Commonwealth. Chapter III, Of Public Debts; "In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them, scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies."
Adam Smith; Adam Smith Institute; caused; inquiry; nation; natural; wealth.
Sun 2007-09-09 00:00 EDT
Welcome to Fleece U
by Barbara Ehrenreich; college student debt; "your real purpose here is to shake off the pointless freedom of youth and assume the burden of debt"
Fri 2007-09-07 00:00 EDT
FT.com print article
Questions and answers on a sadly predictable debt crisis, by Martin Wolf, Financial Times; credit expansion, financial innovation; irresponsibility in the core of the world economy
Fri 2007-09-07 00:00 EDT
Econbrowser: Borrowing short and lending long
by James Hamilton; new bank-like institutions have evolved outside existing regulatory structures, issuing commercial paper and buying securitized debt
Fri 2007-09-07 00:00 EDT
Majoring in Credit-Card Debt
by Jessica Silver-Greenberg, BusinessWeek (1/4); college student credit card debt
Fri 2007-09-07 00:00 EDT
Confessions of a Credit-Card Pusher
by Jessica Silver-Greenberg, BusinessWeek (2/4); college student credit card debt
Fri 2007-09-07 00:00 EDT
The Dirty Secret of Campus Credit Cards
by Jessica Silver-Greenberg, BusinessWeek (3/4); college student credit card debt
Fri 2007-09-07 00:00 EDT
Fixing the College Credit-Card Mess
by Jessica Silver-Greenberg, BusinessWeek (4/4); college student credit card debt
Fri 2007-09-07 00:00 EDT
Credit-Card Survival Guide
by Jessica Silver-Greenberg, BusinessWeek; college student credit card debt
Fri 2007-09-07 00:00 EDT
Credit Cards 101: Finding the Right Plastic
by Lauren Young, BusinessWeek; college student credit card debt
Tue 2007-08-28 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Elvis Sightings & Loose Lips Sinks Ships
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Elvis Sightings & Loose Lips Sinks Ships, by Russ Winter; Fed constrained by foreign ownership of US debt
economic; Elvis Sightings; loose lips sink ships; Market; watch; winter.