•I thought Bush’s stimulus rebate checks, deficits & Wall Street bailouts were going to bankrupt our country; depreciate the dollar; and cause the stock market to tank. It never happened. Now Barack Hussein Obama is doing everything Bush did by a factor of 10. I mean, $billions for the car companies; billions for people to buy cars; stimulus spending; trill annual deficit; it’s unreal. Yet the 10-year T-bill is under 4% and the US dollar is holding up. Even unemployment, which is approaching 10%, isn’t as bad as it may seem with unemployment benefits lasting 79 weeks; and tremendous growth in fed’l gov’t hiring.
• In summary, can someone tell me how if the U.S. Gov’t can run up such deficits perpetually? Or are we in the middle of another huge bubble; this one centered around gov’t debt?
Why would anything bad happen when the Chinese stop buying our T-bills? Maybe they’ll buy shares of Exxon & Walmart instead? So what? Why can’t the Fed Resv Bank just keep buying billion of $$’s of bonds & Treasuries? In this manner, interest rates stay very low. And paying interest to the Federal Reserve Bank is like paying ourselves the money. Seriously, as long as the Federal Reserve Bank can own trillions of $$’s of debt, which they can do; then I don’t necessarily see high inflation or massive unemployment.
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