All Posts Tagged Budget Deficits

Is the Administration waking up to the predicament of the U.S. debt load?

May 15th, 2009 | 2 comments

Bloomberg relays the epiphany: “We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.” Holders of U.S. debt will eventually “get tired” [...]

Around the world in nine paragraphs flat – 03/30/09

March 30th, 2009 | No comments

Technology – Jeff Bezos spent a week working in one of his own warehouses. When I first heard about it, I thought he was making a shift from strategic to operational, with an eye to cutting some costs. I was right. But I admire the man and the company enough that I can only believe [...]