Government Deficit Expands To $176 Billion In October
247wallst.com 14 days ago — According the monthly Treasury report released this afternoon, the Federal Government posted a $176.4 billion deficit in the month of October. Total Government receipts came in at $135 billion. Of that $61.2 billion was attributable to personal ...

United States
standardandpoors.com 6 days ago — The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices measures the residential housing market, tracking changes in the value of the residential real estate market in 20 metropolitan regions across the United States. Home Price Index Levels (as of September 2009 ) ...

Will the United States Default?
econlog.econlib.org 8/24/2009 — (August 22, 2009 08:25 PM, by Arnold Kling) Someone asked for my comments on the Jeffrey Rogers Hummel piece. I think that the U.S. government would enact a wealth tax rather than default on its debt. Other countries that have defaulted have not had ...

Debt Man Walking
newobservations.net 7/23/2009 — It is astonishing to watch a financial crisis and see basic factual data is unavailable or is wildly wrong.

China's Stocks Crash: Is The United States Next?
elliottwave.com 9/1/2009 — I think so.

Obama's Secret Plan For Deficit Reduction: Talk A Lot, Dr. Doolittle
dailybail.com 13 days ago — Obama yesterday finally unveiled what he, Geithner, Summers, Romer and Goolsbee have been promising for months would be "a substantial program of deficit reduction."  Say hello to Dr. Dolittle, now serving as your President. But first, here's what Senator Bank's Obama said about ...

New Research on Walking Away
calculatedriskblog.com 6/29/2009 — Here is an interesting new paper on homeowners with negative equity walking away: Moral and Social Constraints to Strategic Default on Mortgages by Guiso, Sapienza and Zingales. (ht Bob_in_MA) The WSJ Real Time Economics has a summary: When Is It ...