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Won't we all be shocked, I say, shocked, when when 99% of economists are correct, U.S. debentures become toxic, the dollar is replaced by other currencies as the "reserve" currency, a second Great Depression grips the world, the standard of living in the U.S. drops to that of a third world country (OK, maybe only for most of us), and we struggle for decades to recover from the "lost decade" of 2008-2018? I will so hate to say "we told you so."


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Ah! 20 or 30% unemployment. Now there's an employers dream come true!


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Small point, big problem. Derivatives.
Credit Default Swaps. Legal problem. On Government bond CDS, there are no provisions (as far as anyone knows) for a shutdown, however short. A one minute shutdown qualifies as an actual default. Hundreds of billions of leveraged dollars are at risk. Possibly enough to bring down the world wide markets.

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If you look at anything in the abstract you can always justify an argument
wow you must think i am stupid or cant read & comprehend

yes it was not an analogy and you still don;t get it

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If Obama can turn this economy around he has my vote
wow LOL really ... come on tell the truth ... not ever would you vote for Obama even if you found out he was God you would vote against him

here is the reality ... no one knows what makes the economy contract and expand ... policy changes are used to mitigate economic contraction ... the whole intention of this administrations economic policies was to keep it from sliding into an abyss ... that has happened but the economic expansion has not

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why change what is working
this is disingenuous ... the Bush administration end with an economic disaster and you still didn;t vote for a change so give me a break

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Nothing that has been tried has come close to working
do you really not remember the last year of the Bush administration???

we went from losing 850k jobs a month and projected losing increases to adding jobs
we went from negative GDP to positive GDP

what about that does not sound like nothing worked??? was it some magic no one noticed that changed all of that and policies did nothing (now remember part of those policies are heavily weighted with tax cuts)


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No no, rp, you don't understand. Nothing that worked was a Republican effort, therefore, by definition, it didn't work.


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since this thread is about debt ceiling i am calling on Ma_Rep to outline with some specificity what will happen on 2 Aug i.e. as an example (based on 2010 budget), there is $175 billion available per month while the budget calls for $283 billion per month so $108 billion will not be spent

SS = $58B/m
Medicare = $66B/m
defense = $57B/m
interest = $16B/m
subtotal = $197B/m

so come on Ma_Rep please tell me what will be paid for and what will not?

[aside: you will notice not one of those items has anything to do with government]









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I hemmed and I hawed because I'd been thinking about the question myself for so long and I wasn't sure I had any good answer. And what I finally came up with was this. Yes, at some level it's a game of chicken. Something we can all understand pretty intuitively in human nature and game theory terms. But to really get what's going on you've got to understand one key point: one of the two cars doesn't have a driver in it. Which changes everything.

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yeah i know ... overflow from hannity today

i don;t know where these characters get this but for some reason they believe only their plan is a plan or they wont negotiate and impeach the president when we dont get an amendment


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One thing that is consistently (and deliberately, I contend), is that nearly a third of the "debt" the United States owes to itself. The outside debt is $9.75 Trillion - not small potatoes, but not a crisis. Source It's just sexier to paint it larger. Harder to panic if it is under $10 Trillion.


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Originally Posted by NW Ponderer
Won't we all be shocked, I say, shocked, when when 99% of economists are correct, U.S. debentures become toxic, the dollar is replaced by other currencies as the "reserve" currency, a second Great Depression grips the world, the standard of living in the U.S. drops to that of a third world country (OK, maybe only for most of us), and we struggle for decades to recover from the "lost decade" of 2008-2018? I will so hate to say "we told you so."

Just like all those global warming scientists were right?


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