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'Unprecedented' Federal Borrowing Helps Lift Debt To Record Level
By AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH | Friday, August 14, 2009 4:30 PM PT
Americans now owe a record $3.62 for every dollar of gross domestic product as total debt has increased to $51 trillion while GDP is only $14 trillion, according to a new study by the American Institute of Economic Research. The increase in debt since 2000 mainly reflects borrowing in the private sector (nonfinancial businesses, financial intermediaries such as banks, and households) AIER found. But "new federal borrowing has increased rapidly since the final quarter of 2008 at a rate that is unprecedented in the post-World War II era," the study adds.
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Colombia's Alvaro Uribe And Mexico's Felipe Calderon
By AP | Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:30 PM PT
Leaders of two U.S. allies in the war on drugs, Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe, left, and Mexico's Felipe Calderon, met Thursday in Bogota to discuss enhancing cooperation in the fight against drug traffickers who have plagued both countries. Colombian police will train 10,000 Mexican federales. The U.S. gives each nation about $500 million a year for the effort.
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Honduran Protests
By AP | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 4:30 PM PT
Ramon Velasquez, vice president of the Honduran congress, is kicked during protests in Tegucigalpa by a supporter of Mel Zelaya, the country's ousted president. Thousands of Zelaya supporters flowed into the capital's streets Wednesday for the second straight day, clashing with police and demanding that he be reinstated. Zelaya was removed from office in June for trying to overstay his term.
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