Tag : national debt

Will CMBS Sustain High Lending Numbers?

Commercial lending has rebounded quite successfully this quarter, showing an increase tantamount only to the second quarter of 2008. A good sign for those of us in the CRE market, as it shows a steady and growing industry ready to move back into the game. The index recorded a 107% jump from last year’s statistics,..

Deficit, National Debt: What’s the Difference?

Debt ceiling, deficit, national debt, financial crisis—lately these words have been thrown around carelessly by everyone from congressional leaders to your grandmother. The current situation in the United States has everyone talking, but are they really listening (and understanding) the words they are regurgitating? “Deficit,” “national debt” and “debt ceiling,” have been reeled off so..

US Self-Destructs in Less Than 7 Days

Less than a week to go until our country self-destructs in a financial massacre. It seems like only yesterday I was writing about the August 2 deadline and how government officials better get their act together to come up with a plan before we default. I honestly thought they would have figured something out by..

“Gang of Six” Stirs Interest

A little less than two weeks to go and Congress has yet to agree on a plan that will save the United States from defaulting on their outstanding loans. The borrowing limit was surpassed nearly three months ago and yet no notable, let alone aggressive, progress has been made to shrink the country’s outstanding deficit..

America: Shattering Debt Ceilings and Dreams

Our country is in debt, have you heard? Actually, we are so financially overdrawn we’ve blasted straight through that glass ceiling of our $14.29 trillion dollar limit 24 days ago and we keep soaring higher. And as it turns out, some people have noticed. Recently, Standard and Poor’s took our “stable” fiscal title and threw..