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July 19, 2011
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Roundtable: Will the U.S. Default? Three Motley Fool analysts answer the markets' most pressing question. |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2011
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Full Faith and Credit The insanity of playing with the debt ceiling. |
The Motley Fool
July 26, 2011
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Get Ready for a U.S. Debt Downgrade? The odds are higher than you think. |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2011
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4 Reasons to Root Against a Higher Debt Ceiling There's a fight brewing over the U.S.'s debt ceiling -- which way should you root? |
The Motley Fool
June 22, 2011
Rich Smith |
Congresswoman Tackles an Ethical Dilemma About a week ago, I wrote a few words here on the subject of "insider trading" in Congress. Was someone reading my mind? |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2011
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Next Stop: Economic Armageddon? What failure to raise the debt ceiling means. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2011
Morgan Housel |
4 Things to Remember About the Credit Downgrade A few thoughts after a wild week. |
BusinessWeek
February 3, 2011
Lisa Lerer |
The Tea Party: Playing Chicken with Debt The White House and congressional Republicans draw lines in the sand |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Calling a Nonexistent Bluff Is there really a chance that the debt ceiling won't be raised? |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2011
Amanda B. Kish |
Your U.S. Default-Proof Portfolio Do you consider yourself an optimist or a pessimist? |
The Motley Fool
May 27, 2011
Williamson & Moscovitz |
Timothy Geithner on Jobs, Debt, Taxes, Bailouts, and More! (Extended Edition) The Treasury Secretary shares his thoughts. |
BusinessWeek
April 13, 2011
Peter Coy |
Washington Plays Chicken With the Debt Forcing a U.S. default is no small matter, yet many Americans say they want just that. It's time for cooler heads on Capitol Hill to step up and lead |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
Roundtable: Will the U.S. Lose Its AAA Rating? Three analysts weigh in. |
The Motley Fool
July 7, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Ron Paul's Big Idea The government is buried in debt and quickly approaching default if it can't or won't raise the national debt ceiling over the next few weeks. Paul's solution is simple. |
Investment Advisor
February 1, 2011
Melanie Waddell |
Ryan Reveals GOP Budget Agenda to Investment Advisor New House Budget Committee Chair says Dodd-Frank, health care, spending all in play. |
On Wall Street
February 1, 2013
Mason Braswell |
Five Questions with University of Virginia's George K. Yin The professor of law and taxation at the University of Virginia discusses the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. |
The Motley Fool
June 17, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Why Congress Loves Bank Stocks Little wonder that in a world where Congress can legally trade on inside information, the most faith is put in companies where Congress' actions influence most of the outcome. |
The Motley Fool
July 18, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Everyone Is Scared Out of Their Minds July's consumer confidence fell to the lowest level since March 2009, and you can thank the debt ceiling. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2011
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Still the Most Powerful Companies in the World The unmatched power of the rating agencies Moody's and Standard & Poor's. |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2008
Scott Schedler |
What A Week: Congress Falls Short Of Low Expectations Heroes? More like cowards and profiteers. They saw the financial hurricane coming, and decided that this was a perfect time to get a little extra for themselves. |
Reason
April 2008
Jeff Flake |
Passing Bad Laws A short guided tour -- by a congressman -- of the worst bills currently in Congress. |
The Motley Fool
May 16, 2011
Eric Dutram |
Three ETFs to Watch This Week: RTH, TLT, XOIL Lots of data parts this week put these ETFs in focus. |
The Motley Fool
July 18, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
4 Things to Buy Instead of Treasuries 401(k) reform may have had an unintended consequence. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Congress: Doomed From the Beginning Why the supercommittee failed. |
The Motley Fool
June 13, 2006
Selena Maranjian |
Universal Default Can Whack You It's the cold shower of the credit card world. It means that one mistake with one creditor can result in significant rate hikes from lots of your other creditors. |
The Motley Fool
August 8, 2011
Morgan Housel |
S&P's Fumbles Have to Make You Wonder The massive significance of minor mistakes. |
On Wall Street
September 1, 2011 |
Five Questions With John Chambers John Chambers, managing director at S&P's credit market services division and chairman of its sovereign ratings group, talks about S&P's downgrading of the credit rating of the U.S. |
The Motley Fool
March 15, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Time for Universal Default to Default? Potential reforms could make this interest-hiking practice a thing of the past. |
The Motley Fool
August 1, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Crisis Averted? The Latest on the Debt Ceiling What you need to know about the mess in Washington. |
The Motley Fool
June 17, 2011
Morgan Housel |
10 Quotes From the Past That Will Make You Feel Better About the Future It's easy to read today's headlines and assume what we're going through is unprecedented. But dig through the stacks of history and you'll find that much of what worries us today was not only experienced, but overcome, in the past. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2011
Morgan Housel |
A Reason to be Angry -- and a Better One to be Happy By S&P's account, Washington is the sole reason the nation's credit was downgraded. |
The Motley Fool
June 17, 2011
Eric Dutram |
Friday's ETF to Watch: iShares Short-Term U.S. Treasury Bond Fund Investors turn to Treasury bond funds as a safe haven from the turmoil in Europe. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2011
Christopher Barker |
1,000 Lashes for Washington's Debt Deal The controversial debt deal draws a punishing response. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2011
Rich Smith |
Dear Congress: Please Stop Robbing Us It's time to pass the Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge Act. |
Finance & Development
June 2011 |
Geriatric Deadbeats As the number of older voters relative to younger ones increases around the globe, the creditworthiness of borrowing countries could decline -- resulting in less external lending and more sovereign debt defaults. |
The Motley Fool
May 3, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
This Ticking Time Bomb Will Cost Trillions We're getting too used to low interest rates. |
National Defense
September 2015
Craig R. McKinley |
Congress Should Follow Its Budget Rules Of the five members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who will be leaving their positions or retiring this September, none ever had a defense budget passed on time under regular order following the procedures of the Budget Control Act of 1974 during their entire term in office. |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
6 Ways to Prepare for a U.S. Default Are you worried about the U.S. defaulting on its debt? Here are a few ways to prepare yourself for the worst. |
National Defense
February 2013
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
One Fiscal Cliff Down and Three More to Go The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the legislation the president signed Jan. 2 would increase the deficit by nearly $4 trillion over the next 10 years. It is almost certain that defense will have to surrender additional revenue, perhaps another $10 billion to $20 billion per year. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2011
Dan Radovsky |
What's on Your Doomsday List? To hedge against Congress' ability to come to its senses and work out a solution, there's a list of stocks available that The Motley Fool's top analysts think you should own. |
The Motley Fool
December 11, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
2007's Big Surprise Mutual funds that invest in Treasury securities have put in an unexpectedly good performance in 2007, giving broader-market indexes a run for their money. |
The Motley Fool
August 8, 2011
Chris Baines |
S&P Downgrade Doesn't Make Sense How does a country with a printing press default? |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Payback Time Has Come Ten of the largest banks to receive TARP funds -- the taxpayer money associated with last fall's $700 billion bank bailout -- have been approved to repay the Treasury in full, plus interest. |
The Motley Fool
December 3, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
GAO to Paulson: Get Your TARP in Order The Government Accountability Office chides the Treasury Department for failing to address a number of key issues with respect to the Troubled Asset Relief Program. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
How China Could Make U.S. Stocks Soar Maybe there's a better place than Treasuries for the most-populous nation's money. |
InternetNews
September 8, 2004
Roy Mark |
Time Running Out on Fed's Tech Agenda CAN-SPAM and nanotech funding aside, the tech industry has seen little legislative success in a Congress consumed with matters of war and national security. |
Information Today
January 15, 2007 |
Library of Congress Unveils Beta of New THOMAS The Library of Congress has released a new beta version of THOMAS, its Web site that provides access to federal legislation and related documents. |
The Motley Fool
November 21, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
The Dumbest Investment You Could Ever Make Why are so many people taking next to nothing for their money right now -- and feeling good about it? |
The Motley Fool
November 29, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Bonds Won't Stay Bulletproof Forever Another downgrade could be in the works, but will it matter? |
