Donald Trump: “We’ve got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt.” Washington Post: “How long would that take?” Trump: “I would say over a period of eight years.” – March 31 Fortune: “You’ve said you plan to pay off the country’s debt in 10 years. How’s that possible?” Trump: “No, I didn’t say 10 years.” – April 19 ...

  With mounting pressure from Euro creditors, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Greek trade union, the Greek parliament voted on a controversial tax and pensions overhaul on Sunday amid protests against the unpopular reforms in Greece. Leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, whose grass-root supporters object to the reforms, pragmatically backs the package of painful measures demanded by the terms of ...

  Justin Fox In the spring and summer of 2007, as the first tremors of the coming financial earthquake were making themselves felt, just under 8.4 million people were working in the U.S. financial sector. This April, according to today’s employment report, that number was 8.25 million. That’s not much of a decline. Viewed in the context of the decades-long ...