…it’s adding assets to private-sector checking and money market accounts, and balance sheets, ab nihilo. (The government posts new notional liabilities to its balance sheet, to “offset” those new private-sector assets…

…directly check market power and hold industry accountable. On jobs, the president boasted that nearly “100 percent” of new jobs have been created in the private sector. And the label on the…

Originally published at Evonomics and reposted at Naked Capitalism, Angry Bear Steve Roth continues his conversation on riches, income, debt, and expectations. Steve Roth serves as Publisher of Evonomics. By…

…top marginal rate is below 50%, a tax increase is correlated with more private investment and less private consumption. 2. Deficits and the national debt. This is another tax related…

…establish a produce stand. Most small farms are built off of personal debt and completely private investment mostly by the farmer putting themselves and their family deep in debt to…

…purchased only two to three years ago, are now in mortal danger because of the debt piled on them by their private-equity buyers. Much of the bank debt is selling…

…have over $200 billion in revenue and more than 40,000 private label brands, and own and operate brands such as Safeway, Ralphs, Smith’s, Harris Teeter, Dillons, Fred Meyer, Vons, Kings,…

…what happens when private equity takes over. It is a good read. Deregulation and private equity have gutted the U.S. freight rail system—and with it, the promise of America’s industrial…

…engaging in related to the so-called “fiscal cliff” created by the original Bush tax cuts (set to sunset en masse), the artificial debt ceiling (used by the GOP to exact…

…a public institution to not compete with the private sector and only write those loans the private sector was unwilling to write. Again, I’ll quibble that last sentence—it should read…