Obama’s ‘Stealth Taxes’ Estimated at Over $1.5 Trillion
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FDIC: Bank Failures to Cost $100 Billion
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators said Tuesday they expect U.S. bank failures to cost the deposit insurance fund about $100 billion in the next four years and the fund to be running at a deficit this month. That is higher than an earlier estimate of $70 billion in failure costs through 2013. The Federal Deposit Insurance […]
Dollar is the New Peso
The U.S. dollar will continue weakening, and investors may borrow it to invest in higher-yielding assets, says Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital. “I don’t know when (the dollar) is going to strengthen,” Schiff told CNBC. “The dollar isn’t the new yen, it’s unfortunately the new peso.” A weak dollar and low U.S. interest […]
U.S. Government Going Broke
Boston University economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff says the government “is going broke.” In a Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review article, he points out that bankruptcy is usually defined as an inability to pay interest on current debt, with no prospect of being able to pay without changes in circumstances. In assessing whether the […]
