A recent WSJ article profiled a Columbia, Ohio doctor facing a whopping $500,000 in student loans — the result of deferred payments and accumulated charges. While the doctor’s debt burden may be extreme, more U.S. college students are borrowing larger am

Greece announced a $6.5 billion austerity package Wednesday, reviving hopes for a bailout of the debt-laden nation. At the very least, the tax and spending cuts should make lenders more comfortable and allow Greece to roll over the some $30 billion of deb

From The Business Insider, March 3, 2010: Last week the WSJ published
a story about hedge funders going to “ideas dinners” put on by research
firms where they discussed various trade, including, but not only,
shorting the euro. …

“Deflation is a very serious risk [but] inflation is a greater likelihood,” Arun Motianey, senior strategist at RGE Monitor, says of the great economic debate of our age.Despite ongoing (and legitimate) concerns that a combination of China’s eco