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America The Tarnished | Paul Krugman

March 30, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist NEW YORK TIMES America the Tarnished By PAUL KRUGMAN Ten years ago the cover of Time magazine featured Robert Rubin, then Treasury secretary, Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Lawrence Summers, then deputy Treasury secretary. Time dubbed the three “the committee to save the world,” crediting them […]

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National Dept Hits 11 Trillion; Sucker

CBS NEWS The Federal Government’s flood of red ink hit another high-water mark as the Treasury Department quietly reported today that the National Debt hit $11-trillion for the first time ever. To be exact, the Debt now stands at $11,033,157,578,669.78. Divide it by the U.S. population and it comes up to over $36,000 in debt […]

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