For all this, Jefferson remains the originator of the anti-statist movement, with its aversion to debt and taxes, that is dominating the debt-ceiling impasse and has been a defining and recurrent strain of American politics.
Mortgages dominate U.S. debts, comprising $5.3 trillion of just over $12 trillion in outstanding debt.
Mortgages dominate U.S. debts, comprising $5.3 trillion of just over $12 trillion in outstanding.
It dominated the debt-ceiling debate in 2011, and is returning to center stage as Congress and the president get set to negotiate a resolution to the "fiscal cliff" — the tax increases and spending cuts scheduled to take effect Jan . 1
The European debt crisis and threat of Greece defaulting on its debt is dominating the summit of the top 20 economies.
The 1920s — when several of the victorious Allies emerged from World War I with large debts in their own currencies — offer in some ways the nearest parallel to the debt concerns dominating recent debate.
Apparently, in terms of welfare inequality, transfer and unproductive spending effects have dominated over the debt effect during the Spanish consolidation process: despite debt reduction, welfare inequality across wealth increased (despite the positive welfare gain for every household).
A week dominated by US debt problems and, latterly, the Royal Mail flotation, ended in optimistic fashion.
Richard Northedge charts the neologisms that entered the language of business in a year dominated by Europe, debt and tax avoidance.
After all, many of the newfangled instruments that dominate today's debt markets have never been tested in a serious panic.
