“The national parklands have a major role in providing superlative opportunities for outdoor recreation, but they have other people serving values. They can provide an experience in conservation education for the young people of the country; they can enrich our literary and artistic consciousness; they can help create social values; contribute to our civic consciousness; remind us of our debt to the land of our fathers.” PeopleCountryHelpingYoungValuesFatherOpportunitySocialConsciousnessRolesLandMajorsDebtArtisticParksServingProvidingConservationOur FatherCivicsRecreationSocial ValuesSuperlativesOutdoor Recreation Author:Stewart Udall
“Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.” WayHas BeensMajorsIncreaseRaisesDebtCeilingsDebt Ceiling Author:Charles Bass
“If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?” IfsCountryPayBirthMajorsRateCurrentsDebtEnormousLowestDeveloped CountryBirth Rate Author:Jim Rogers
“I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime - in fact, the only major entitlement reform now is welfare.” YearsFirstsFactsFourMajorsPaidLifetimeConservativeDebtBillionsReformBudgetsWelfareBalancedEntitlementPaid Off Author:Newt Gingrich
“Greece's debts are all denominated in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those debts. For that reason, the consequences of a national bankruptcy would be incalculable. Greece is just as systemically important as a major bank.” ImportantReasonWould BeClearMajorsConsequenceDebtGreeceBankruptcyEuro Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“In a speech at the just-concluded G20 summit in London, President Obama urged Americans not to let their fears crimp their spending. It would be unwise, he argued, for Americans to let the fear of job loss, lack of savings, unpaid bills, credit card debt or student loans deter them from making major purchases. According to the president, 'we must spend now as an investment for the future'....instead of saving for the future, we must spend for the future.” Would BeJobsPresidentLossStudentsSpeechMajorsBillsInvestmentCreditDebtSpendingLondonCardsSavingPresident ObamaLoanSummitSavingsCredit CardUnwiseStudent LoanCredit Card DebtJob Loss Author:Peter Schiff
“They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it - at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges.” ThinkingTogetherSocialChallengesSecurityTaxesMajorsDebtPrioritiesSettingSettingsAddressesTiedSocial SecurityMedicareDisconnected Author:John McCain
“While many of the established media make losses or go bankrupt, WikiLeaks has survived a major conflict with a superpower, including an unlawful economic blockade by its banks and credit card companies and the detention of its editor. We have no debts. We have not had to fire staff. We have never lost a court case related to our publishing. We have never been forced to censor. Adversity has hardened us.” LostLossCompanyCasesFireEconomicMediaConflictMajorsAdversityCourtIncludingCreditDebtCardsRelatedEditorsPublishingStaffSurvivedCredit CardSuperpowerHardenedWikileaksDetentionUnlawfulBlockadesCourt Cases Author:Julian Assange
“My hope is that we can get a Republican-Democratic agreement on how we strengthen Social Security as well as looking at some of these other major expenditures that we have that we've got to deal with to make sure that we're not just leaving you guys with a mountain of debt.” WellsGuySocialDealsSecurityRepublicanMountainMajorsDemocraticLeavingDebtAgreementSocial SecurityExpenditures Author:Barack Obama
“Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0% balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.” YearsGrowthCasesEconomyGrowingEconomicBalanceMajorsHighestPercentCrisisCreditDebtCardsInequalityBritainHouseholdCrashTransfersCredit CardTextbooksRatiosGdpEconomic Crisis Author:Frances O'Grady
“Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget.” StatesUseBigsGovernmentUsedInterestUnitedCitiesUnited StatesMajorsToolsRateSizeDebtScalesManageBudgetsCorporationsMassiveManipulationAssetsSovereignInterest RateBig Cities Author:Matt Taibbi
“People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.” PeopleShouldThreeWatchesReadyMajorsAddictionDebtSettlingThree ThingsSettling DownReady To Settle Down Author:James Taylor