Public Sector Balance Sheets Leveraged to Offset Private Sector Deleveraging

From table D.3. of the Fed's Flow of Funds , we see that as the private sector deleverages , the public sector has added even more debt,...

Interconnected Markets

In a recent conversation with a friend, we discussed how interconnected global financial markets were (the conversation began with my assert...

Federal Debt per Employee

This will be the last employment related chart for a while (I think) following recent posts This Time IS Different... Employment Edition an...

Germany as the Poster Child for Fiscal Responsibility

In yesterday's post on European Debt, I noticed: What is interesting (to me) is that debt levels in Germany are almost (or at least in ...

European Debt Once Again Front and Center

Don't call me the Brett Favre of bloggers yet. I'm not officially back, but getting the itch and may post here and there (and like...

Deficit Financing

The AP details: Not since World War II has the federal budget deficit made up such a big chunk of the U.S. economy. And within two or three...

An Even Uglier Federal Debt Chart

In response to my updated More on Federal Debt post, reader dougiefreshhh comments: for even more "on the street" bang, i'd p...

More on the Federal Debt

In response to my post on the Federal Debt Spike , reader Todd commented : Would like to see this in real terms or as a percent of gdp. I be...