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I was reading this article: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/23/expect-downside-surprise-in-dollar-upside-surprise-in-oil-prices-analyst.html It says "One of the things people are forgetting is that every single listed company that has U.S. dollar debt is paying down that debt at the moment so I...

So was this how Greenspan lowered interest rates? Is this the same in England? I just thought he threw out a number somewhere.

Government debt interest rates confuse me. Am I making sense of this correctly?: 1. So the government is going into debt and must someday pay back this money with interest. 2. The government sells these debts to investors. 3. When the government reduces the interest rates across the board it...

Just reading an article about the printing of money and how it's driving up the stock market. The particular part which I don't understand is where it says: "This extra money (referring to the printing of money) has driven down the returns on government debt, making other assets, such as...

It seems as though all the economic recovery is that now the banks are going back to lending money to pre-2008 levels again. Is there anything else that I am missing here?

I live in the UK and at the moment there is in the news a debate between politicians on how to conduct our energy policy. One side says freeze prices for a year. The other side talks about some weak freemarket principals like telling consumers to look for a better deal. So I did some research...

I am having this debate with someone and he basically said that no one has ever become a millionaire through doing business with the government (US and UK)...I'm sure he's very wrong in this regard and would like to shove it in his face. I've found some billlionaires but they have made most...

I've heard so many people refer to this book but has anyone actually read it? I've been doing some research on it and it seems people may be misquoting it quite a lot. I had always thought that Uncle Tom was a kind of puppet that was trained to keep other slaves in slavery but after doing some...

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Only problem with that is that I can walk just down the road and get a new battery in about an hour... Yeah, I hate to do it but I just gotta, I'm sure you've been in these spots.

Hey folks, I need to get a day off work. I'm sorry this may seem very bad to most people but under the circumstances you probably would agree with me (long story). I was thinking along the lines of car trouble, that way I could simply use tomorrow as an emergency holiday. However, I don't know...

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I heard on a tv program that England was now more socialist than china is. This is obviously hard to believe so I tried to do a little bit of digging to see what percentage of china is run by government bodies... It's pretty easy to find how much Britains run by the governmet (about 55%)... I...

Hi folks, I've gotten myself in a sticky situation again... I've been debating this person over what is better, freedom vs a kind of techno-communism. I think I've out done the person on every point, however I slipped by saying that Americans were the highest educated people when the country...

I've been looking at some budget sites on the UKs budget but it says that the amount of money is around the £600 Billion a year... However i've heard that the UK bailed out the banks for about £850 Billion. If this is so then the official numbers are clearly not correct. So how do I calculate...