Fed chairman on debt: ‘Trillion there, a trillion here… doesn’t make much difference’

Caroline May The Daily Caller 6/7/2012

Trillions of dollars appear to be a pittance to Ben Bernanke, President Barack Obama’s Federal Reserve chairman.

At a Thursday Joint Economic Committee hearing, South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint pointed out that the Federal Reserve is keeping interest rates artificially low and, by extension, also keeping payments on […]

U.S.’s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP

Garfield Reynolds and Wes Goodman Bloomberg.com 6/4/2010

June 4 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama is poised to increase the U.S. debt to a level that exceeds the value of the nation’s annual economic output, a step toward what Bill Gross called a “debt super cycle.”

The CHART OF THE DAY tracks U.S. gross domestic product […]

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