Archives for “Inflation”

As the rapidly dwindling fans of Keith Olbermann know, the MSNBC host likes to tar his enemies with the moniker “worst person in the world.” Rather than heaping this often humorless praise on deserving foes, Olbermann most often targets fairly harmless lesserknowns and obvious blowhards like Bill O’Reilly. In the gracious spirit of Olbermann’s mildly [...]


The US Government’s balance sheet is looking a bit unsound lately – $12.4 trillion in public debt. Correcting for the Enron-like accounting that hides the Government’s Social Security and Medicare liabilities, the figure is estimated at $59 trillion. While “can’t” is not in the traditional American vernacular, repaying $59 trillion in debt, or even servicing [...]