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The article reports on the growth of the money market funds in the U.S. in 1974. It mentions that the 10% growth was driven by the surging interest rates on commercial papers and bank certificates of deposit. According to James M. Benham, president of Capital Preservation Fund, the best debt in a time of crisis would be the government debt, citing one time in which the Treasury bills carried negative effective interest rates as banks bid them up to improve their holdings.

The article focuses on the growth of debts in the U.S. which amounted to a total of more than 519 billion dollars in 1952 compared in 1929 and 1939. It states that the debt burden includes the rise of federal debt during the war and increase of corporate debt since 1939 which reached 334.7 billion dollars. It says that the economic growth has accompanied by government and corporate credit expansion since 1939, wherein, public debt has declined while private debt has doubled.

The paper focuses on the economic crisis facing Argentina in 2002. On January 6 2002, Argentina finally let go of its decade-long embrace of the U.S. dollar and devalued the peso, ending one of the world's boldest experiments in economic reengineering. The new government also confirmed that Argentina cannot go on servicing its $141 billion public debt. Both Wall Street and Argentine business leaders are skeptical that President Eduardo Duhalde can even pull off a controlled devaluation. Indeed, in a post-devaluation report, J. P. Morgan predicted that the free-floating peso will be worth a mere 37¢ by year-end. Duhalde is also courting controversy with his treatment of the nation's banks, most of which are foreign-owned. Still, one casualty of Argentina's meltdown might be the Bush administration's plan to push for a Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005.

The article focuses on Israel's struggle to establish itself and sustain as a country on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of its independence on May 14, 1948. It states that Minister of Industry Dov Joseph visited the U.S. to plead to allocate money to Israel to pay outstanding debts. It mentions the condition of Israel's import and export ratios to explain the plight of the country. It also mentions that the people all over the world are donating money to improve Israel's condition.

Several charts are presented that list the changes in manufacturing industries, government interest payments on public debts, and sales in mobile home and travel trailer in the U.S.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to topics discussed in previous issues including one on the U.S. Taft-Hartley bill in the June 28, 1947 issue, another on economic aspects of World Wars I & II and one on increase in national debt due to wars.

This article discusses whether the U.S. government is near the point at which global investors will become concerned about the U.S. meeting its obligations. U.S. President Barack Obama's budget envisions large deficits as far in the future as 2020. So far there has been no trouble in selling U.S. Treasury bills, notes, and bonds, but many economists are concerned that this situation could change as quickly as it did in Greece.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "The Spread of Terror" in the April 14, 1980 issue, "Cutting Uncontrollables" in the March 24, 1980 issue and "Harvester Falls Flat on its Bargaining Goals" in the April 7, 1980 issue.

The article discusses the new debt economy created by the U.S. from 1975 to 1978. There was a 36% and 33% increase in corporate debt to over one trillion dollars and state and local government debt to 295 billion dollars, respectively. Inflation is expected to surge if the Federal Reserve (Fed) allowed debt to expand at its current rate. Also noted is a decline in the appeal of equity to institutional investors.

The article examines the economy that U.S. President Ronald Reagan will be leaving behind. Under the Reagan Administration, the national debt rose to $2.3 trillion. With much of the tax code indexed to inflation, the next President may have to consider a new levy on consumption, such as a national sales tax. By the time Reagan retires, he will have appointed all seven governors of the Federal Reserve Board.

The article explains why businessmen should unite to fight currency inflation in the U.S. According to the author, inflationists are advancing their program and they have a chance of winning a majority of the House of Representatives. The author points that if inflationists succeed, the country will be facing a huge increase in its public debt.

The article offers news briefs related to finance in the U.S. in 1953 including the 74.9 million dollars of total loss of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, the 3.5 billion dollars of gross debt loads incurred by local governments, and the estimated 84.9 billion dollars of debt obligations due in 1954.

The article reports that borrowing gets harder for several states in the U.S. due to their inability to pay high interest rates. It mentions that the interest rates have increased way beyond the city's statutory limit for public debt. It affirms that states and cities have experienced unprecedented erosion of their credit ratings amidst tough competition in the tax-exempt market.

The article reports on developments relating to public finance in the U.S. for the week September 9, 1950. It discusses how rearmament will force the U.S. Treasury back to borrowing. It also reports on a proposed tax bill that is expected to bring in enough revenue to pay for most of the extra procurement of the country's defense program. The article examines the limits on taxability, and discusses the possibility that the Treasury will have to borrow 10 billion U.S. dollars in fiscal year 1952.

The article informs that the U.S. and Great Britain have spent more than 1,100,000,000 dollars in the economic recovery of Greece. It tells that the U.S. Congress has discussed on the proposed loans to Greece. It states that Greece has asked for aids in economic re-construction and military necessities to restore domestic tranquility. It further informs that Great Britain has owned approximately one-third of the 450 million dollars of Greek public debt.

The article discusses the author's views on public responses of the economic policy of four billion dollar-odd work relief measure of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He mentions the standpoint of U.S. senators Carter Glass and Alva Blanchard Adams, who both think that the policy have very little impact on employment and will just add too much to public debt. The author thinks that the President still runs short on best ideas that deal with the impact of the great depression.

The article reports that two economists were recruited by the U.S. government to study the issue of public debt. It states that professors James H. Rogers and George Warren of Yale and Cornell, respectively, were asked to find out how best to convert the 7 billion dollars of short term obligations into long-term bonds. It claims that the country has a total interest-bearing debt of 21.5 billion, 14.2 billion in long term bonds and 3.6 billion in Treasury notes with a 1 to 4 year maturity rate. Information on how the situation came about is described.

The article reports on the developments in the war spending in the U.S. as of December 1943. It claims that the federal government's borrowing program is starting to level off as war production is nearing its peak. It cites that the defeat of Germany in the next few months will result in a decrease in the government borrowing in 1944. Financial experts claimed that 40-45% of the increase in government debt will go into bank portfolios.

Looks at the advantages to reducing the federal debt of the United States. How the reduction could stabilize the Social Security and Medicare programs and decrease interest rates; Debt reduction as a way to increase business investment, boost productivity, and create better-paying jobs; Effect that debt reduction would have on the economy's growth rate.

The article reports on the search for safety due to the sudden drop in the yields of U.S. government securities that take place in the Euromarkets in 1982. It cites the major beneficiaries of the search for safety which include a select number of highly rated U.S. multinational corporations that are finding they can issue debt in international bond markets at prices below what many experts had expected. It notes the search of large investors for a best place to preserve capital.

The author discloses the role of the U.S. administration of president Jimmy Carter in cutting down the U.S. national debt to 30 billion dollars or below, wherein U.S. Chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability Alfred E. Kahn recommending client boycotts to corporations and businesses that breach the modified wage-price regulations implemented by the U.S. federal government.

Reports that the ultimate cost of the savings and loan crisis to the U.S. taxpayers could exceed $200 billion. Arguments pertaining to the fear of economists; Discussion on the implications of the increasing cost of financing the public debt; Arguments pertaining to why owners and managers of troubled thrifts attracted depositors with high interest rates.

The author analyzes the impact of higher interest rates in the U.S. as of June 1987 on the U.S. budget deficit. The author says that a one-percentage-point rise in interest rates would add only $11 billion to the deficit in 1988, but the effect would grow each year. James Tobin of Yale University said that the U.S. deficit and debt would increase if the interest rate is higher than the economy's nominal growth rate.

The article discusses the efforts of the U.S. Treasury and other finance agencies to deal with increased debts while interest rates decreased in the U.S. in 1936. It reports that the debt incurred by the country amounted to 32,600,000,000 U.S. dollars in the month of June. In response, the federal government has asked commercial banks to replace short-term securities with long-term ones.

The article reports on the plan of the Treasury Department to use gold profit to pay off the national debt of the U.S. and retire the circulation of national bank notes in 1935. The Currency inflation advocates and conservative financial interests agreed and cheered this plan of the Treasury. However, currency expansion advocates proclaim the plan since the Treasury needs to turn over gold certificates to the Federal Reserve Banks to match the retired national bank notes.

The article focuses on the release of a Federal Reserve Board report which raised the estimate of outstanding debt in the U.S. by 7% to a total of 25.7 billion dollars in April 1953.

The article discusses U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's program to reform the debt management operations of the federal government and its four related issues including interest rates as it awaits approval by Congress in 1959. It believes that the proposals are justified and desperately needed. It talks about the request for a rise in the temporary debt ceiling from 288 billion to 295 billion U.S. dollars aside from an increase in the permanent debt ceiling from 285 billion to 288 billion U.S. dollars the President has had to ask this year.

The article offers finance news briefs in the U.S., including the government debt of 80 billion dollars, a record high for the Canadian dollar, and the decline of the price for copper.

The article reports that the U.S. Congress and President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt have allegedly no plans of resolving the war debt issues of the government as of November 1932. It is mentioned that the British and French governments are acting similarly to the U.S. administration with regard to managing the said debts. The possible reasons behind the observed attitude of Roosevelt to the financial issue are presented. It is also added that Roosevelt is planning to maintain holdover responsibilities to the Congress.

The article focuses on Chile's debt, estimated at between 2.5 billion to 3.5 billion dollars as of January 1972. It states that the country owes this money to several countries, including the U.S., France and Germany, collectively known as the Paris Club, as it will meet with them in Paris, France in February. In contention, as well, is ownership of three copper mines, the El Teniente, Chuquicamata and El Salvador, of which the country owns 49% while the U.S. owns the rest. It is hoped that this should leverage its ability to borrow more.

The article comments on the economic prosperity in the U.S. in 1950. It emphasizes that it is important to understand the basic causes of this prosperity so that it lasts long. It further says that the next five years will not be easy if deficit financing is the government's only answer to the problem of maintaining a high-production, high-consumption economy in the U.S.

The article reports on the economic projection that the federal government will face a trade deficit around three billion dollars by the end of the fiscal year on June 30, 1950. It notes that the U.S. is heading for trouble as the national debt has escalated and can trigger chronic inflation. It reveals that U.S. President Harry S. Truman has proposed to increase taxes.

The article discusses the issues that arise on the U.S. postwar debt burden. The effort of the Congress to boost debt limit, discussion on interest rates, and the inclusion of postwar debt management in the budget raise questions of the effects of the debt on postwar business. It is considered that the most controversial question arises pertains to the addition of debt if the nation runs short of full employment. It is also expected that other problems in debt burden management will also arise.