WHERE DOES YOUR CANDIDATE STAND ON ECONOMIC ISSUES?

Do you know where the presidential candidate you support stands regarding the mortgage mess, taxes, and jobs?

Which candidate has proposed a 5-year freeze on the adjustment of rates for adjustable rate mortgages?

Which candidate has proposed spending $10 billion to help those who are about to lose their homes to foreclosure?

Which candidate would abolish the IRS, eliminate incomes taxes, and establish a 23% national sales tax?

Which candidate would renew the Bush tax cuts and further cut taxes for corporations?

Which candidates would raise income taxes on individuals making $250,000+?

Find the answers to these questions and more by viewing this NBC News video.

SENATOR CLINTON EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT FOREIGN-OWNED U.S. DEBT

Senator Hillary Clinton expressed concern about the "economic vulnerabilities" posed by foreign interests owning large amounts of U.S. debt. On the Senate floor, and in letters to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Senator Clinton said that President Bush's economic policies have contributed to an "erosion of U.S. economic sovereignty" and added that it is "undeniable that the exponential growth of foreign debt in the last six years has undermined our economic standing."

From The Wall Street Journal:

Currently, the U.S. imports more goods than it exports from places like China, resulting in a trade deficit, and it borrows heavily from abroad to finance its domestic investment. Foreign interests own about $2.2 trillion of U.S. Treasury securities -- or about 52% of the public debt not held by the U.S. government, compared with about 20% in the early 1990s, during the Clinton administration. The U.S. has come to rely on foreign capital because Americans don't save enough to finance the nation's domestic investment.

...there is broad concern that the growing reliance on foreign investors puts the U.S. at risk, and some say the way to address it is to begin saving money at home by erasing the current $248 billion budget deficit, moving into a surplus and putting money aside to pay for costly obligations like Social Security and Medicare.