$15,OOO,OOO,OOO,OOOBAMA! - It's Official: Total US Debt Passes $15 Trillion

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Too sad for commentary, but here is some math: total US debt has increased by 41.5%, or $4.4 trillion, from $10,626,877,048,913 on January 20, to $15,033,607,255,920, under Obama as president.

(as a reminder the most recently updated debt ceiling is $15.194 trillion)

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Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:00 | 1884267 transaccountin
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very sad day.country being destroyed by the few. no surprise really; the poor and middle barely hanging in

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:09 | 1884369 CH1
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True. Time to ditch the system and build our own.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:13 | 1884409 camaro68ss
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Happy debt day everyone! I need to make a $16 Trillion hat for July 2012. I have six months, better get working

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:27 | 1884508 defn8Dog
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If we split the tab, that's just $48,100 for each of us. 

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:38 | 1884596 camaro68ss
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will you take a credit card for my portion?

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:50 | 1884673 tekhneek
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GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:46 | 1884911 CompassionateFascist
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Before we get all excited, let's just make sure they got the math right:  .30 + .02 = 32 cents. No problem with my share. On a related matter, Zero is now sending 2,500 US Marines to...Australia. To fight the Cane Toad invasion. Or something.   

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:54 | 1884940 trav7777
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IT'S ALL BUSCH'S FAULT

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 19:01 | 1884968 Silver Pullet
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Too much beer?

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 19:09 | 1885001 Ratscam
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it's transitory!

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 19:17 | 1885027 BaBaBouy
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..........................................................................................................Peanuts.So.Far...

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 19:20 | 1885055 BaBaBouy
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Green Shoots ...

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 19:43 | 1885137 Hansel
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WE FUCKING DID IT!  $15,000,000,000,000!

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:00 | 1885193 nope-1004
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When I was a kid, 15 tril was alot of money.

 

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:46 | 1885310 Manthong
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Finally that's over with.

Now we can get down to some REAL overspending.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 21:18 | 1885384 TheSilverJournal
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$15T is the generous number. It doesn't count what the gov. is on the hook with the banks for, state debt, muni debt, student loans that the gov. is on the hook for, unfunded liabilities, etc.

Thu, 11/17/2011 - 08:56 | 1886257 Absinthe Minded
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@Hansel

You missed three zeroes, no big deal, just a gubmint rounding error.

Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:38 | 1886945 Taint Boil
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Try Google It looks ok to me you stupid American educated fucktard.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 19:26 | 1885075 tmosley
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He's referring to his life.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:37 | 1885275 Taint Boil
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Trav74 

Yeah, actually you are right Busch Bush #2 is number 1 and Obama is number 2 and not to leave out Bush #1 at number 3. But hey all that doesn’t matter … what really matters is what Drudge and Fox News say.

 

edit: Well not counting WWII. And ..... Reagan #4 LOL just saying

 

 

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 19:06 | 1884987 Mentaliusanything
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Troops are too give China a sabre to rattle.

Indonesia is really pissed off he by passed them.. after all, being Blood and all that.

President promises that Australia to get a base on American Soil the day America pays off it debt in full.

Looking forward to that..... aren't you

 

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 19:02 | 1884978 4 wheel drift
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roflmao.....

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 19:20 | 1885051 SilverDoctors
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Apparently Blythe and JP Morgan celebrated by adjusting 1.1 million ounces of silver into REGISTERED VAULTS, effectively TRIPLING their registered silver supplies overnight!

Also pretty interesting that 1.4 million ounces of registered silver is "unavailable for delivery" over the MF Global theft, and suddenly JP Morgan shifts 1.1 million ounces into registered overnight.

http://silverdoctors.blogspot.com/

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:41 | 1885302 SilverDOG
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...and the 300,000oz silver bar goes to... US Mint? 

for $50/oz.

Thu, 11/17/2011 - 01:59 | 1885885 prains
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fuck that's a lot of crack

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 22:16 | 1885483 hannah
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booyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:47 | 1884915 Mark123
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Sears Card?

Thu, 11/17/2011 - 17:04 | 1888973 Jena
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uhm, how about a check for mine?  oops, forgot to sign it, damn!

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:40 | 1884607 SHEEPFUKKER
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Can I borrow the money interest free to pay my share?

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:02 | 1884736 SheepDog-One
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'Your share' if your are a taxpayer is now $1,034,000

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time

Lower right hand corner.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:12 | 1884777 Greater Fool
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No problem. I can easily grow my way out of this. I'll get, say, eight or ten white-collar jobs, then outsource all of them to India and collect the spread.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 19:10 | 1885002 Fedophile
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You seem to have mistaken debt for unfunded liabilities. Either way you are both wrong, the real number is debt per tax payer or $133,344. 

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:00 | 1885192 centerline
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So, how do the unfunded liabilities get paid?

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:09 | 1885227 Moe Howard
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with unFRNs

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:31 | 1885280 whoisjohngalt11
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yes i think the Tax payer debt much more germane..

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 22:04 | 1885458 nmewn
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I refute the "democratic principles" under which it was imposed.

I'll see em in court...or elsewhere ;-)

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:13 | 1884768 tekhneek
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Actually, you can use a credit card to help "pay down the national debt"

https://www.pay.gov/paygov/forms/formInstance.html?agencyFormId=23779454

And I quote:

Welcome to the United States Treasury's 

site for making donations to help reduce the public debt.  If you would like to make a 

donation, please fill in the required fields

and click the Submit Data button when 

completed.

LOL.

Hold on a minute though (hypothetical here): If everyone maxed out their credit cards at the same time through that form to pay down the national debt would the debt be 0?

...or would the debt become 30 trillion because that money was borrowed into existence to pay down already borrowed money?

Someone else please explain?

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:17 | 1884798 Greater Fool
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The national debt would be zero. BUT all of our credit scores would go to zero, banks would go belly-up left and right, and several pension and sovereign wealth funds would incur spectacular losses.

To save us all, the Treasury would undertake a 15 trillion dollar stimulus.

Lather, rinse, repeat. See also: the European banking / sovereign / banking / sovereign / banking etc crisis.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 19:10 | 1884984 Dane Bramage
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National debt is a misnomer, at least for the uSA.  There is no national government.  "Public debt" is also a stretch.  That $15 trillion is FEDERAL debt.  And, seeing as how they've subverted their charter (USC) in innumerable ways, not the least of which is the currency itself (got bills of credit?), they are a rogue agency and should be treated as such (w/extreme prejudice).

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:03 | 1885203 centerline
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That might explain the lien held against the treasury to almost the exact amount of debt!  LOL.  Just like a corporation.  Move #1 after getting the gears in motion is the file the lien!

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 22:11 | 1885470 nmewn
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"Public debt" is also a stretch.  That $15 trillion is FEDERAL debt."

Number five greenie is mine, I don't spend them very often ;-)

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:36 | 1885289 whoisjohngalt11
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The Irony wow--That's Beautiful .....

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 21:25 | 1885398 GCT
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Yep but you cannot deduct it from your taxes!!

Thu, 11/17/2011 - 02:12 | 1885900 A Nanny Moose
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This would a fascinating experiment. I think we should take it viral. Xmas day, we all gift eachother the premise of full payment of US debt, by maxing out our credit cards.

See where it goes from there.

Thu, 11/17/2011 - 17:07 | 1888982 Jena
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Oh sure.  We'd do it but there's always some bastard who'd hold back and mess it up for the rest of us.  

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:22 | 1884818 Grinder74
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What would be great is if the Treasury would offset a person's student loan--who has made on-time payments for at least 7 years--against and up to the per-person portion of the debt.  For instance, my 32k gets offset against that 48.1k; I get to not make $300+/mo payments anymore and the govt no longer has that much in outstanding Treasurys.  It may be a drop in the bucket as far as the national debt, but that could be one hell of a stimulus for consumers.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:55 | 1884945 trav7777
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fuck you; I paid my loans.  Pay yours or give me the same benefit you get

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 19:07 | 1884996 tekhneek
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agreed

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 22:14 | 1885480 TheSilverJournal
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"That could be one hell of a stimulus for consumers."

Stimulating the consumer is exactly what we don't want. What we want is to stimulate the saver because savings is where the capital comes from to produce goods. It's savings and production that drives an economy, not spending and consumption. 

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 19:09 | 1884998 Hearst
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Unfortunately this bunk system rewards moral hazard.  I say wipe the slate clean.  ALL debts, paper, and electronic currencies go to ZERO.  Fresh slate.  Re-introduce Gold & Silver as common currency.  Done.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:09 | 1885224 centerline
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Millions are wiped out.  Poor, sick and eldery die in huge numbers.  Cities burning within days as the welfare checks and food stamps stop flowing.  Oil is revalued in the process, effectively crippling critical supply chains.  And so forth.  World as we know it changes overnight.  Going to happen anyhow... just a matter of whether it happens slowly or all at once.

From the ashes we will rise again... but there is pain to experience first.  This we have brought on ourselves.  Of course, the fuckers who orchestrated this should be hunted down like animals.  

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:31 | 1885277 andybev01
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I vote 'all at once'.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:39 | 1885296 a growing concern
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Can you guys wait til I can run to the store and get an AR15 and about 5,000 rounds of ammo and about a years worth of canned food?  Kthanksbye

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 21:19 | 1885385 Hearst
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'Can you guys wait till I run to the store and get an AR15 and about 5,000 rounds of ammo and about a years worth of canned food?'

 

Seriously, if you are still unprepared at this point in the game you deserve the bread lines.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 21:29 | 1885405 Hi Ho Silver
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You have until the music stops. Make good use of the time you have left.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:43 | 1885303 Rollerball
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Wrong.

Debt instruments of a private Basil Institutional Syndicate (BIS) are easily replaced by CREDIT issuance backed by the largest armed force in the world if their leader(s) had a ball sack. 

Thu, 11/17/2011 - 02:15 | 1885904 A Nanny Moose
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The forest must burn periodically, to remain healthy.

It 's gonna be a stinky planet.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 23:54 | 1885696 Great Depressio...
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And what year did you graduate trav you smug fuck?? Surely you have seen the explosive rise in tuitions?? Assuming you're a boomer cuz u talk like one then you pay squat for your loans.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 21:21 | 1885389 Matt1973
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No #OWS hand-outs

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 23:51 | 1885690 Great Depressio...
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Student loans suck. Just don't go into default on those fuckers because they are nondischargeable in bk.

Thu, 11/17/2011 - 01:43 | 1885870 ceilidh_trail
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Grinder- Man up and pay your bills. Freeloaders are what is killing us already.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:41 | 1884889 Dre4dwolf
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There isn't enough money in circulation for each of us to split the tab.

 

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:36 | 1885287 Calmyourself
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Duhh, thats why we charge it, for everything else there's masterfucked..

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:20 | 1885261 Bunga Bunga
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The price you have to pay

to get out of slavery.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:34 | 1884559 RemiG2010
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Hurray! Let's open up some champagne!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6VF11PC6LA

 

Thu, 11/17/2011 - 05:09 | 1886061 Bruin4
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15 Trillion in debt and all I got was this lousy T shirt

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:17 | 1884437 Waffen
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Secession Secession Secession.  50 independent countries.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:22 | 1884473 Dr. Acula
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That's treasonous talk!

The United State of America is going to last forever.

 

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:23 | 1884487 Manthong
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Anybody happen to note what the exact time $15T hit on the clock?

How close was it to the market rolling over late today?

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:45 | 1884646 Vincent Vega
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I did not note the exact time but it was about 2:30 central time (as I was watching debtclock).

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:05 | 1884753 EINSILVERGUY
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It was 2:30 cst. I took a screen snapshot of it when it rolled over

 

 

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:17 | 1884802 Diogenes
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What number did you have in the pool?

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:25 | 1884833 Pitchman
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Sounds like the first salvo in the battle to Restore the Bill of Rights and the Tenth Amendment, returning the Republic to the conscent of the governed.

- THE FOUNDING FATHERS: MYTH ASIDE, THIS IS A VISION GONE WRONG

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:38 | 1884875 Rockfish
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AND YOU WOULDN'T LAST 50 MIN.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 19:34 | 1884967 Monedas
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Waffen Wurfer ! I'll use your post to issue a Math riddle ! If all 50 states were having civil wars....each state individually at war with the other 49 individually....how many civil wars would there be ?  Please show the math ! N. Dakota vs S. Dakota and S. Dakota vs N. Dakota is one war ! Monedas 2011 Comedy Jihad Obama isn't capable of winning the 6th grade National Spelling Bee without his teleprompter ! My guess is 625 or maybe 1250 or maybe 1225 ?   625....my final guess !

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:14 | 1885235 kekekekekekeke
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1225

 

50!/(2![50-2]!)

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 20:39 | 1885297 Calmyourself
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So DC fights all of us, right...

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 21:00 | 1885340 Greater Fool
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Correct, although using combinations for this is sort of swatting a fly with a Buick.

Each N can be at war with N-1 others (unless we're enabling states to be at war with themselves). Every war is then counted twice, so divide by 2:

N (N-1) / 2 = 50 (49) / 2

More fun: Consider the South Dakota-North Dakota war distinct from a tripartite war between South Dakota - North Dakota - Alaska. Each state is involved in every war it can possibly be using this counting method. How many wars are going on?

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 21:25 | 1885397 knukles
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4950

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 22:03 | 1885455 dogbreath
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nice avatar

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:19 | 1884462 redpill
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Put simply, it's an utterly unrepayable sum at current dollar valuation.  That leaves only two options: Inflate or Default.  There are no other choices.  Unfortunately the practical impacts of both of these can be quite different for the economy, and we have to try to hedge accordingly while watching the handful of madmen trying (and failing) to centrally plan our economy become increasingly desperate and driven toward one of these two eventualities.  

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:26 | 1884505 mayhem_korner
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Unfortunately the practical impacts of both of these can be quite different for the economy

 

Inflate = fiat gradually becomes worthless until critical mass capitulates

Default = confidence in fiat dissipates and capitulation happens quickly

The difference is in the pace and distribution of the pain.  But either way gold-holders are better off. 

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:43 | 1884612 redpill
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Don't underestimate the savagery of the oligarchy against those they identify as having hedged properly.  They will be deemed evil speculators at best, but more likely some form of domestic terrorists.  Even holding physical gold will be characterized as sedition in rhetoric if not in law.  What desperate measures they'll go to in order to undermine its perceived value are nearly unimaginable, but be ready for an assault on anything that is an effective hedge against their actions, for in their eyes you become more fearsome than any foreign fighting force.

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:45 | 1884647 TheSilverJournal
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Don't overestimate the pull of government either. They're not miracle workers and when fiat becomes extremely abundant, its purchasing power will decline no matter the rhetoric or laws.  

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 17:50 | 1884670 redpill
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Some people simplistically claim that we fought street to street and door to door in towns across Iraq because we wanted their oil.  We'll take the oil alright, but I have a slightly more sinister view of what the military really wanted:

 

 

 

 

Practice.

 

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:01 | 1884730 tekhneek
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Alex? Alex Jones? Is that you?

LOL

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:03 | 1884744 LeBalance
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Ostrich? Is that you?

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:10 | 1884774 redpill
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Roll with it, Blythe!

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:14 | 1884785 tekhneek
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Oh come on you know I had to!

We agree on things though so, no worries there.

;)

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 22:20 | 1885489 Ganja Jane
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Ouch!

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