Mar 2 2012

Hitting the credit card wall – Credit card debt contracts 17 percent as the grand American household deleveraging continues. Average household with credit card debt carries $16,000 at an average rate of 15% – Real broke housewives. Orange County California witnesses a 600 percent jump in bankruptcies.

Credit card debt has become a big financial albatross for many American families.  According to the Federal Reserve Survey on Consumer Finance over 176 million credit cardholders exist in the United States.  This is an amazing figure when you actually think about what a credit card is.  A credit card essentially allows you to spend […]

Feb 6 2012

Federal Reserve continues shadow bailout of banking industry – $947 billion of overpaid and low demand mortgage backed securities sit on the massive $2.8 trillion Fed balance sheet. The price of this hidden bailout will hit all Americans.

The Federal Reserve continues a secretive bailout of the banking system by purchasing more and more questionable mortgage backed securities.  You would think that $1 trillion would catch the attention of the media but they seemed focus on other trivial items.  The Fed balance sheet is still at record levels above $2.8 trillion to be […]

Jan 27 2012

The university of financialization – science and math graduates opt to go into the gambling fields of Wall Street banking instead of building productive jobs for society. Many non-tech majors choose lower paying fields while going into massive debt. Youth summer employment drops from 60 to 46 percent in last decade.

Going to college has always been a dream for many Americans.  Parents have high hopes for their children going to a good school and coming out with a degree that has made them more well rounded as citizens.  But this desire may not be coinciding with the marketing jargon that spews out from the industry.  […]

Jan 25 2012

The great deleveraging event – household debt has fallen 4 percent since recession hit. Household debt has fallen dramatically from the peak when household debt aligned itself with annual GDP.

The debt bubble bursting has jammed the bottom line of American households.  Debt and money are synonymous for many households in our current economy.  The ability to spend, or buying capacity, is looked at in the same light as savings from many in the financial sector.  This is why data recently released shows the balance […]

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