Read more national debt stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/5493/national-debt.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:51:04 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74619/debt-happy-us-faces-payback-time-as-rates-rise.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLike a homeowner heading for mortgage default as interest rates rise, the US is heading for a nasty shock as cheap national debt suddenly becomes much more expensive. The White House estimates that the cost of servicing our $12 trillion debt will be more than $700 billion a year by...http://www.newser.com/story/74619/debt-happy-us-faces-payback-time-as-rates-rise.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 7:29:09 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71447/wanna-buy-the-chunnel-get-it-now-from-slash-gordon.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown is launching a massive $25.3 billion sell-off of Britain's assets, ranging from student loans to the Chunnel linking England and France, in order to reduce record deficits and maintain public expenditures. As the British election draws nearer, the Labor Party is attempting to burnish...http://www.newser.com/story/71447/wanna-buy-the-chunnel-get-it-now-from-slash-gordon.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 12 Oct 2009 3:38:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68003/dont-fear-debt-failed-reform-is-scarier.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPaul Krugman isn't surprised that the projected $9 trillion deficit over the next decade is being greeted as a sign of economic apocalypse—and that commentators think it proves health care reform should be scuppered. In fact, he writes in the New York Times , it's good to run a deficit...http://www.newser.com/story/68003/dont-fear-debt-failed-reform-is-scarier.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 28 Aug 2009 6:19:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67800/recession-will-pass-but-dollar-may-be-doomed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe American economy is heading out of recession, but the long-term fate of the dollar may not be so bright, writes the Wall Street Journal . Growing numbers of economists and investors, including Warren Buffett, say that stimulus spending and rate cuts will boost inflation and weaken the greenback. At the...http://www.newser.com/story/67800/recession-will-pass-but-dollar-may-be-doomed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 26 Aug 2009 7:07:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67742/us-deficit-soaring-to-16t-this-year.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHere's the latest eye-popping number produced by the recession: $1.6 trillion. The White House and CBO today projected that figure as this year's deficit, reports the New York Times . While it would be the biggest since World War II, the figure is actually about $260 billion better than anticipated...http://www.newser.com/story/67742/us-deficit-soaring-to-16t-this-year.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 25 Aug 2009 10:56:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61489/how-we-wound-up-with-a-12t-deficit.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama’s agenda plays a very small role in the massive deficits facing the country, but it won't do anything to correct them, wither the New York Times reports. After reviewing a decade’s worth of Congressional Budget Office reports, the paper explains how the government turned a $800 billion surplus...http://www.newser.com/story/61489/how-we-wound-up-with-a-12t-deficit.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 10 Jun 2009 9:24:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60656/geithner-to-china-your-assets-are-safe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTim Geithner began his trip to China with a speech at Peking University, where the Treasury secretary said that once the current recession and financial crisis are over, the administration will bring down soaring fiscal deficits. But students at the college where Geithner himself once studied peppered him with tough...http://www.newser.com/story/60656/geithner-to-china-your-assets-are-safe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 01 Jun 2009 8:41:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59099/to-cut-deficit-rein-in-health-costs-orszag.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith the future of Medicare and Social Security in the headlines, the Obama administration is jumping at the chance to push its health care reform agenda. Up today: budget director Peter Orszag. "Slower growth rate in overall health-care spending would help to promote and sustain a slowdown in Medicare and...http://www.newser.com/story/59099/to-cut-deficit-rein-in-health-costs-orszag.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 15 May 2009 10:35:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/52332/calm-down-government-debt-wont-kill-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRepublicans have become born-again deficit hawks, decrying the debt President Obama is handing America’s grandkids. “What’s missing,” writes Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post , “is any sense of perspective.” The added $2 trillion pales before the $66 trillion spent annually on Social Security and Medicare, and could be paid back...http://www.newser.com/story/52332/calm-down-government-debt-wont-kill-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 04 Mar 2009 12:11:00 CST