经济学家和金融家们担心财政部将不得不印刷越来越多的钱来偿还债务，最终使货币贬值并引发恶性通货膨胀，类似于德国在第一次世界大战后试图偿还其繁重的外债时所经历的情况。
这个国家从来没有如此依赖赤字支出来支付其冲突。预计后果对于美国的长期财政健康是毁灭性的，但它们远远超出了经济。
In the name of the fight against terrorism, the United States is currently waging “credit-card wars” in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere. Never before has this country relied so
拜耳 – 孟山都公司目前是世界上最大的种子和农药公司，其近乎垄断价格，忽视农民和环境健康意味着消费印度农民的绝望将很快在美国种植。
MINNEAPOLIS – Over a decade ago, a disturbing trend among farmers in India captured headlines, as suicides among Indian farmers began to spiral out of control. Many of those farmers were
约翰博尔顿和新保守派应该放松一下。拥有俄罗斯经济利益的新自由主义经济学家，俄罗斯政府，显然普京本人已掌握了自己的权力，将会在没有战争的情况下摧毁俄罗斯。
From the standpoint of Russia’s dilemma, this is an important column. Putin’s partial impotence via-a-vis Washington is due to the grip that neoliberal economics exercises over the Russian government. Putin cannot break with the West, because he believes that Russian economic development is dependent on Russia’s integration within the Western
America’s assorted wars show no sign of ending, and indeed the Pentagon has been pretty clear about the US deployment in Iraq being a permanent thing.
The cost of America’s global war on terror has yet to be reckoned with, and there’s a very good reason for that. By and large, the US has not been paying for all of these wars, but rather has been borrowing to pay for the conflict. In the long run that’s going to be expensive. Paying off the war is going to mean not only paying
While other businesses have to use civil remedies when customers don’t pay their debts, the rent-to-own industry has a special tool in Texas law that lets them file criminal charges.
When Melinda Sandlin walked out of Discount Furniture in Austin in late 2014, she was sure the store had put her on a payment plan to buy a new bedroom suite worth $2,750. A year later, after realizing she had sent in more than $3,000 for her seven-piece set, she figured she was done. So Sandlin told the store clerk she wasn’t
Ancient Greece is perhaps best known for its contributions to mankind in the areas of philosophy, architecture, and science. But a modern-day economist suggests that some of the economic practices that were used in ancient times could help to solve Greece’s current debt crisis.
ATHENS (Interview) -- Closing in on a full decade in duration, the Greek economic crisis is unprecedented in the modern history of economically-developed nations. During this period, Greece’s GDP has declined by over a quarter, unemployment has skyrocketed to record levels, salaries and pensions have been decimated and a significant percentage of
