How much is $87Billion?

1- National Debt :The total amount the federal government has borrowed -- not just in one year, but the total for all the years it has
Trade Deficit: is the difference between what u.s companies export and what U.S companies import into U.S.



2-The difference is that the national debt is the amount cumulative over the year and the trade deficit is what is cumulative.

3-Today the national debt is $9.2 trillion and the trade deficit is about $58,200 million

visa ipo

Visa's initial public offering made its new owners very, very rich when it priced Tuesday night for a record-breaking $17.9 billion. Now Wall Street wants to know how it will fare on the open market as it begins trading today on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol V (V).

There are high hopes for Visa, despite months of stock and bond market turmoil that has dragged the three major indexes lower and pushed bond yields to their highest levels in years. While no one believes that the markets will rebound because of Visa, analysts believe its success could breathe life into a stagnant IPO market.

New York Times article about Jerry Yang

Mr. Yang, faces enormous pressure as he decides whether to try to rescue the company from the clutches of Microsoft, or accept the bid and watch Yahoo become part of Microsoft’s arsenal in its no-holds-barred brawl with Google.
Some analysts and several current and former Yahoo executives are, meanwhile, wondering whether things would be different had Mr. Yang been quicker at making some of the tough choices that Yahoo faced

The presidency

Obama's plan, is built around $250 tax rebates to workers that Goolsbee said could be deposited "overnight," meets the condition of immediacy that he said is necessary for a stimulus package to have any positive effect. If the recession did begin in the last quarter of 2007 as some economists speculate, any further delays in people receiving money would be too late to help.

Clinton's plan demonstrates the candidate's unique understanding of the American middle class. "She has observed a disconnect between Washington policy and what she's heard on the campaign trail," he said. Clinton's plan consists of, in part, the establishment of a $30 billion emergency housing fund to mitigate foreclosures, $10 billion for unemployment insurance, and $30 billion in energy assistance.

recession

1-recession: a temporary falling off of business activity during a period when such activity has been generally increasing­
2-On Jan. 21, 2008, stock prices tumbled around the world. Most analysts pointed to fears surrounding the United States economy and a possible recession as the reason for the drop. Ironically, economic conditions in the United States were affecting the world economy on a day when its own markets weren't even in session -- they were closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. Three days later, news outlets were already reporting a new economic stimulus package, designed in part to try to prevent a recession
3-From my point of view if the economic situation does not change in the course of these weeks, the country will be experiencing a strong resecion at this time still can not be connsiderar that this, the stock market had not lost for the suficentes that conciderar already in this country resecion