UK faces longest fall in living standards since records began, says thinktank Not long ago, U.S. debt long positions were near historic highs. The CFTC's holdings report showed that as of Dec. 12, the 30-year U.S. debt had a net gain of 10.091 million, the highest level since last July. Philip Hammond has been trying to persuade conservatives that tax increases and spending cuts are needed to reduce the deficit. As hicks income concept did not specify what is called "equal wealth", and thus the income concept formed the basis of many debates concept, and the theory of accounting earnings, especially the capital preservation theory has a great influence. In accounting, people used to call "maintaining the same level of affluence" as capital preservation.