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The Simple Problems Of Too Much US Debt
In a succinct and chart-laden presentation, Professor Antony Davies, of Duquesne, offers a simple perspective on just how bad things are for the US (in terms of debt or obligations). Putting the interest cost in the context of war-spending, his analysis is interesting given the recent and dramatic rise in interest rates. Current interest payments, given the US Government's lowest ever 3% interest cost, are $440 billion, or three times the annual operating expenses of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. While his discussion of a market-set interest rate is perhaps a little off-the-mark given the extent of QE programs and their reach-around prime-dealer duration-reducing effects, it is nevertheless true that the more money the government is spending on interest, the less money is available to provide services and his punchline on what happens should rates rise even modestly from here sums the real problem the US faces (even as a currency issuer as opposed to a currency user - given the inherent instability that making totalitarian use of the reserve status would incur).
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if the fed owns most of the bonds, and they turn the interest payments back to the treasury, then why do interest payments matter?
ps: dont hate if this sounds stupid, college student still learning
Not a dumb question at all. It means that only the FED is buying the debt, and to do that they need to print money, debasing the currency. Since there is no free lunch, all holders of cash and it's equivalents are in essence buying the debt indirectly through loss of purchasing power.
It also means the treasury wants the debt as high as possible, as they are the recipents of the interest payments.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on him not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
so this is the "secret inflation tax" that ron paul talks about
It is always easier for me to understand when cartoon bears explain stuff. Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k
Too much debt?
The Fed says we need more and more debt until things get better.
That will be covered in Thursday's lecture.
Now that Ben Shitter is telling all the little people about the benefits of feudalism, I wonder if he might...
Visit some unemployed college graduates (a.k.a. debt peons) for his next whistle stop.
While he is doing that perhaps he can explain how keeping the same fools who bankrupted Wall St in 2008 in charge of the economy today is helping restore America's economic health. Oops, silly me, Ben Shitter made them billionaires all over again with the money of us little people. Hey, they are are rich. They must be right.
Thanks Ben Shitter, I feel better already.
Sounds like his name should be Ben Dover.
"The government needs to take advantage of the low interest rate environment and pay down as much of the debt as it can."
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha ... pay down the debt??? .... the government is ADDING $1.3 Trillion a year to the debt .... and a major aisle fight broke out over cutting $30 Billion from the budget ... this country is soooooo FAWKED
Fucked. This country is fucked. Just say it. You don't have to be polite or camoflaged its true nature. When it comes to the truth, let the truth rings free.
"and pay down as much of the debt"
With what? This is what happens when one fails to define debt and money.
Debt can only be "payed down" with money. Money is purchasing media with no interest owed.
All of our currency (including computer entries) is debt as it is encumbered by interest.
The real problem is that we have no money so it is impossible to pay down the debt (any and all of it)!
If debt is an asset, how can one hold/owe too much?
Assets are good, right?
You have the right idea, may I interest you in a job?
http://www.newyorkfed.org/careers/index.html
I am willing to exchange as many assets as you can handle in exchange for your gold...
I have an unlimited supply...
Does that explain it?
so this is the "secret inflation tax" that ron paul talks about
It's not just that, its a tool to spread influence and tax the global economy.
Just watch this little 4 part series:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ssrcD5GdPQ&feature=BFa&list=PL4270752809DDF8DC&lf=results_main
This is outstanding. Thank you for the link, i had no idea about that ESF monstrosity.
The Fed crowds out other buyers and distorts markets by interfering with mis-pricing risk since it is artifically holding interest rates too low.
You might enjoy this previous ZH article that makes another point:
"Private investors are crowded out of the market when the Fed shows up as a large and powerful bidder. As a result, the administration and Congress make tax and spending decisions—with huge implications for our standard of living—with heightened risks around future funding costs."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/under-twist-fed-has-purchased-91-all-gross...
The FED's role has changed dramatically since I was a kid a thousand years ago. It was not uncommon to give treasuries as gifts for birthdays or graduation. Plus everyone has some as investments. Of course, this was pre-runaway welfare, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, tax give back, etc. Now, a government instrument (Fed) is buying debt and "lending" it to the Treasury who (somehow) will pay it back with interest - a Ponzi scheme of the first order.
Can you please switch back to your old avatar? It was the only thing worth looking at on the internet at work.
False. This is a common misconception. Treasuries are already one of the most liquid markets in the world. Your ability to spend is not constrained whether you have all of your money in Treasuries no more than having your money in a Savings Account (rather than a Checking Account).
So, if the Fed were to gradually replace every Treasury Bond in the world with Cash it would not cause inflation since the net financial assets in the private sector would still be the same.
The only thing that would change would be the liquidity, but people's desires to save would still be the same.
I don't understand, how many I-Pads is that?
$50,000,000,000,000 / $500 = 100,000,000,000 iPads
6,840,507,003 people on earth – about 14 iPads for every person on earth
Pounding down the brewskis and went to public schools so the math might be off
Even if the Fed is buying 'most' of the currently issued bonds, they don't own 'most' of the current stock of outstanding bonds.
The more important topic is - why is a sovereign nation paying interest at all? Why has a sovereign country delegated its money creation powers to private, commercial banks? Under fractional reserve banking, the commercial banks can create money out thin air - for free - and then lend this 'money' back to the sovereign, at interest and with the collateral of future tax receipts (i.e. your productivity).
See the United States Note - issued without interest or debt, straight from the Treasury. Sure it was fiat currency (backed by nothing), but at least it was the people's currency.
Interest on sovereign debt is the scam of the century.
As long as United States Notes are backed by gold, no problem. And the gold in a federal building's basement is not useless as Bernake suggests, because it circulates as hard currency in paper notes.
... The dollar is a fiat currency, it hasn't been backed by gold since the 70s.
duh
I suspect that auctioning off bonds to create new money, the debt ceiling, etc are mechanisms designed to at least slow the rate of currency debasement. If the government could just print money, imagine how fast it would devalue?
In Modern Monetary Mechanics, printed by the Chicago Fed, the paper admits that the vast majority of 'money' in the system is created by commercial banks (when they make loans). Sure, government printing debt-free money has issues - but its still the people's currency and not the bankers [fraudulent] currency.
They're not meant to slow the rate of currency debasement... that can be accomplished through rudimentary discipline. They're there to further entrench and pay the hungry hippos and all the unnecessary middle men.
Foreigners collect 40% of interest payments on US Government Debt. Martin Armstrong calculated that 80% of current debt outstanding is due to interest compounding?
If the FED owned or purchased all the government debt then as you say interest rates rates wouldn't matter. But, this not the case. When sovereign governments can print debt free money, that's REAL money. Banks issue credit money.
More from Armstrong: he is forecasting that interest rates payments will increase by 2 1/2 x to 10 billion dollars per week from current 4 billion by 2015. That's why all this propaganda against social spending--they're just making room for interest.
The fed only owns 1.3 trillion of the 16 trillion in debt. All the other debt is owned by foreign governments, money market funds, mutual funds , pensions and do on. So the treasury isn't getting all that interest back. But the real problem is that the fed continues to print to buy said debt, thus killing the buying power of the dollar and of the existing bond holders. If the fed wasn't printing and squeezing the poor and middle class bond rates would be much higher.
you are learning...it doesn't matter. now come back and see me in 20 years "Dr. who gives a fuck" and lets have the same conversation....
Trying to learn about economics on zerohedge is about as smart of a move as trying to learn about... well, anything... by listening to alex jones. Zerohedge articles on economics are fantastic contrarian indicators.
good question.. you gonna make AAA student..
BUT ITS NOT REAL QUESTION.. REAL ONE IS
WHERE DID FED GET MONEY TO BUY INTEREST BEARING INSTRUMENTS? it doesnt have taxation authority.. how did Fed balance sheet grow from 800 bln to 3 trln in a few short years...
asnwer : THEY MADE MONEY UP... its ponzi scheme..
alx
they print tokens. those tokens used to be exchangeble for gold, yes. until 1933 for US residents and until 1971 for foreign governments and central banks. those tokens are the government approved accounting method for taxes. technically, it's not a ponzi scheme, just another fiat currency. of course, if you "print" every year much more than what you expect to gather in more in taxes, this gives more currency going somewhere else.
Einstein reportedly said:
"The Federal Government can issue money directly.
Why do they need a middleman?"
"if the fed owns most of the bonds, and they turn the interest payments back to the treasury, then why do interest payments matter?"
My understanding is that the Federal Reserve -- a private banking cartel -- does not turn the interest over to the U.S. Treasury, but to its shareholders, comprised of member banks.
Thus, the wealth of the U.S. is systematically transferred from its citizens to an elite group of wealthy bankers.
no, nothing as crass as this. the fact that the FED is a "private" organisation is irrelevant - the profits of the banking cartel are not given directly in form of dividends (in fact it's the US Treasury that receives "excess profits" from the FED), they are by virtue of being allowed to partecipate in the "largesse" of the FED in form of liquidity, bailouts, UST transactions, the "mother hen" function of the central bank, etc.
Congress could nationalize the FED by a law this very day in exchange for one USD and it would change nothing.
The end game is in sight here. Debt is a poison when a slight rise in interest rates bankrupts you immediately.
There is no way out except default, either by printing or outright default.
How many times has this exact same game played out through human history yet we keep having the same arguments over and over again?
Thank you so very much for reaching out beyond the trite, petty politics of today.
People don't want to identify the REAL truth as to why this keeps repeating- perpetuation of the growth lie. EVERYWHERE all you hear is that we MUST protect "growth," we MUST GROW! This centrally planned GROWTH is what allows our slave masters to control everything.
Whenever you see the word "interest" substitute "rate of growth."
Most here clamor for backing currency with something tangible/physical, like gold. This is good, but it's still missing the bigger picture: it's got the right elements (no pun intended), but it doesn't really hit the root of the problem. "Rate of growth" really means "rate of increases to consumption levels" IS the problem, the physical world isn't the same as a virtual printing press.
humanity doesn't necessarily "progress."
What you have is a large labor-class that retains the same basic mass psychology through-out the history of civilization.
Their operating environment may change through innovations of exceptional minds, but it matters not. The ignorant masses will claim "genius" as their own and attribute it to their own ability when they do nothing but provide the labor and consume and fuck.
If "we" last the next 10,000 years, we'll be debating the same old shit, in a different tongue.
EVERYTHING is based on the "promise" of tomorrow's prosperity. That is what "growth" is all about, it's an illusion/lie perpetuated by the ruling classes. Growth, however (someone junked me for stating a mathematical fact, WTF? [grow up, people!]), canNOT continue in perpetuity.
We're not going to see another 10,000 years. The earth's inter-glacial period is roughly 12,000 years, and we've just about run out of That clock. Next cycle, glacial period, here we come! And, well, it's not going to be all warm and fuzzy like this here inter-glacial period. From iPads to iCaves...
That is profound.
Why would they turn the interest payments back to the treasury? That sounds like a big happy circle jerk. And thats probably what it is.
The Fed is required by law to turn over their interest payments back to the Treasury.
Not that laws matter much more in amerika, anyhoo.
90% of interest to the treasury, 10% to Federal Reserve Corporation stockholders.
Bond vigilantes still sleeping soundly. But when they wake up, boy are they going to be pissed!
Angry perhaps, but what are they going to do about it? GM bondholders & Hellenic Republic bondholders got shafted, but no shots fired yet. Docile as lambs, if you ask me. Why is that? Nihilism? Fatalism? Too Big To Do Anything About It-ism?
The private sector stopped loaning money to Greece (except at huge interest rates) forcing the government cut spending and beg money from the ECB. Which caused Greece's economy to go into a depression.
In the US things will be different. Interest rates will rise as they did in Greece, but the US government will print dollars and shrink the debt via inflation. The people who will be hurt most will be the ones who are silly enough to be holding dollar-based debt just before the "Great Reset". Holders of physical PM's should come out OK (as long as the US gov doesn't confiscate them). And PM prices might even skyrocket as everyone scrambles to get out of bonds and into physical assets.
I agree w/ you Poncho, printing and devaluing the debt is the only realistic way out of this mess. Same as in the past .
Using reality to escape non-reality, hoping to reach reality through leaders who ONLY only know (and can ONLY stay in power via) non-reality... It's looking like this might end up being a tad difficult...
Uh...where was the part where he explained the Ponzi of it all?
Just about everthing out of this dude's mouth is wrong. WTF?
Who made Mr. Dude the debt nazi, anyway?
The prob w/ debt is what it is used for: whores, drugs and gold plated faucets for the 1%ers.
There is no such thng as 'too much debt' because finance debt is never repaid (unless you stop being a country or are dependent upon external sources of credit).
Debt is used to industrialize/ruin the entire world. How is that working out?
Who made you an idiot
Debt is used to industrialize/ruin the entire world. How is that working out?
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Quite well for those on the good side of the process (an ever to shrink number) and not that well for the other side.
US world order.
Matrix Algebraic Coconutism
Make me laugh!
Praying that someone shoots the Hemaroid with ears and takes him out. He simply crossed the line this week. The man is evil and I pray that is he is shot- soon.
Fuck that, just double the debt ceiling, have Bernanke print money to buy Treausuries and keep interest rates at historical low levels.
Oh, shit, that's what we just did.
Bernanke and the Federal Reserve just keep on monetizing. The Chinese and Saudi's holdings of treasuries become worthless.
Many more suckers like Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal and his holding Citibank are needed. Multiply the Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal suckers holding US treasuries!
We, the taxpayers and citizens, end up being the suckers. Foreign investors of U.S. treasuries will be given an option by our government and the Fed of payment, not in dollars, but land (acreage), buildings, resources and access to markets. If China wants land to build a manufacturing facility or needs water for an agriculture project in the U.S. our government will make it happen in exchange for redeeming treasuries.
Pay down the Debt.
This guy should be on the comedy channel !
I nearly choked I laughed so much.
I know right, I almost fell off my dinosaur
All this debt talk is confusing. Will there be an Ipad 4
Yes, next week - and this one won't overheat
The Ipad 4 will actually run hotter than any previous model, and in a world first be able to singe your nuts while surfing the net when positioned on your lap. Can't wait.
Ha! And here we thought that it was Hummers and the like that were the causes of global warming!
Yes, actually Apple is joining up with George Foreman to create the Foreman Ipad, revolutionizing not only personal computing but grilling as well.
while there is still time ????
Everyone on here is too excited about the bump in rates. There will be some fear that creeps in and when it does the market and especially commodities will drop. People will again flock to bonds and give cover for more QE. At some point it will change course but not yet.
Debt is not the problem because there is not enough gold anyway. Go figure!
US can afford any interest rate if it is in $ . Poor guy who is lending.
"US can afford any interest rate if it is in $ . Poor guy who is lending."
Quite trenchant!
Lending is basically borrowing against future returns. When it's clear that there aren't any future returns to be had it will all then cease. The future won't be what it used to be...
It's not 145B per 1% until the debt resets..there's 5.6 trillion coming due in the next 4 years..plus there's the 5 trillion in intergovernmental holdings that would reset to higher rates should that happen..in all it's fair to say that over the course of ten years there would be 1trillion+ in additional interest costs..but if rates were to rise 1% this year it's the current years deficits funding, the 1 triiion in notes and bonds and whatever in bills thats subject to increased costs.
and give thanks to the manipulators who give us this cheap gold prices
I am going to teach a class of college business students tomorrow like uncle Ben....So here is my dilemma....When I define what the acronym FRB stands for, do I say
FRB- stands for Fractional Reserve Banking....or...Finally Reaching Bankruptcy...
Thanks!
Technically, you're never bankrupt if you have the ability to print money to make your payments. The solution to this debt crisis (and any debt crisis) was provided by Greece. Exchange your debt that is held by other countries for new debt ... and tell the private holders to go fuck themselves ... woolah!!! ... instant paydown
And after you tell the private holders to fuck off...How do you pay for imports and the "stuff" you cannot produce within your own borders?
I've always believed that a major part of the debt problem is way too many people don't understand the difference between fiat money and "real wealth"....but they're gonna learn....and it'll be a very hard lesson.
We actually don't have fractional reserve banking, bankers lend out out whatever they want first and worry about reserves later.
"Current interest payments, given the US Government's lowest ever 3% interest cost, are $440 billion, or three times the annual operating expenses of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars."
Ummm, whaaa...what happened to the peace dividend?
Furthermore, why has Greece been proven to be insolvent? Did the ghost of Xerxes launch another invasion I'm not aware of?
What happens when a sufficient number (whatever the number is) of US dollar holders decide they aren't going to hold dollars anymore?
I realize they have few alternatives given the size of the outstanding debt, but isn't that going to happen at some point?
To answer my own question.
Aren't dollar holders going to have to pile into "real stuff" like commodities? PMs , real estate, etc. driving prices of "real stuff" to the moon?
Where else can they go? What market(s) are big enough to absorb all those dollars?
All the fiat currencies are headed towards worthlessness.
Just askin...
What market(s) are big enough to absorb all those dollars?
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There is only one-
The gold market could easily sop all of them up-but if what you describe happens-gold will decide how many pieces of paper it will take to walk away with a piece-
Aren't dollar holders going to have to pile into "real stuff" like commodities? PMs , real estate, etc. driving prices of "real stuff" to the moon?
And then people will understand the difference between the virtual world and the physical world... No more "free money," no more unicorns, no more "American Dream" (Mr. Cheney was right, the "American Dream" isn't negotiable [given that it's based on FRNs, it's got no value to negotiate with- see! he wasn't lying, it was just that people didn't get his REAL meaning!]).
The currencies of developing nations will spike, as well as gold. The CNY will likely be the next reserve currency, as the Euro probably will have gone away by the time people decide they don't want dollars. That's my best guess.
...does the denomination of debt matter. If the US borrowed Euros 1 trillion for 10 years would it just not do a sell/buy EURO 10 year semiannual paymennts swap. How to buy the Euros for settlement...sell freshly printed dollars. All central banks with a press can do this. Of course this would normally kill the domestic currency. But nowadays, not so much perhaps. Probably be USD bullish in this bullshit market.
I don't think it matters which currency.
Envision a great circle of down escalators, each representing a different currency. The escalators are all moving down at different speeds (different rates of money printing) But they're all headed for the same "black hole" in the middle of the circle.... Monetary Collapse.
It's just as Mises predicted. The result of this expansion of credit will be a complete collapse of the currencies...just a matter of when, not if.
Of course the denomination of debt matters. The US debt is denominated in a currency in which the US is the sole issuer of that currency. The US can never run out of its own money. It's impossible.
http://youtu.be/4HJ54RRB7OU
"The US can never run out of its own money. It's impossible."
Sure as hell CAN happen. One day the "printing presses" will be smashed, any existing USD (either physical or virtual) will be junked (deemed worthless; whether there'll be confiscations I haven't a clue).
The ONLY thing that you can say can NEVER happen is perpetual growth (on a finite planet).
Still a long run from that. Scenario for nearing depletion of resources on the world scale.
For the moment, USD retains value as it buys any kind of commodities.
reserve currency, shitting on the world
Great stuff ZH. Nice video Prof. Davies. On point.
simple answer... bomb the central banks
I am tired of scar mongers using unfunded social security and Medicare liabilities to frighten the public. This is a disingenuous talking point, trumpeted by the right so they can attack social security and privatized it.
The total worrisome number relies on many assumptions and does not include any social security withholding taxes to offset these costs. Social security is solvent until approximately 2037, if the banksters do not continue to mismanage the credit crisis.
"...Social security is solvent until approximately 2037,..."
Yeah sure it is. Are you fucking nuts?
It's "solvent" until the printing presses are destroyed! That people won't be able to live a day on the hyper-inflated "promises" is another issue.
Toss it all out and just ask this simple question: Where are the "replacement" workers coming from? Demographics say that there won't be enough of them to meet our PHYSICAL needs.
I don't even know whether the US govt will be able to toss "numbers" out through 2037, let alone anything that resembles a redemption of any physical value.
yeah.. he is an idiot..
there is no money in SS funds.. its all paper, masked as some kind of lock - box..
for 2 eyars in row SS outlays are bigger than intake.. so its already broken..
alx
U.S. Mint needs to issue a $1 Billion Dollar coin and use it to pay off all financial institutions, banks, foreign governments and the Federal Reserve with it. Mint these coins free of debt and use them to pay off the debt.
God Bless Bill Still
Bill Still rocks!
Bill Still is a monetary wolf in sheep's clothing --- a disingenuous, raging statist who HATES gold and has repeatedly misrepresented the gold standard and hard money in general, and who firmly believes in fiat currency and in the DUTY of government to control and issue the money supply, instead of the free market.
It is a sign of the final and complete degeneration of the US Libertarian Party that this malicious, lying bastard is even being considered for their presidential candidate.
+1. I'd have put it more strongly, but your portrait of that disingenuous reptile will do.
Dog smite Bill Shill !!
(Why doesn't Dog do smiting any more? Dog knows, there are many deserving of a good smiting!).
"Mint these coins free of debt"
Mint these coins free of interest...
That's more accurate.
"What I learned from Professor Bernanke"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/da...
What the Hell is going on here on ZeroHedge --- I suddenly just lost my ability to see the "tracking" list in my user profile. Has this happened to others here as well?
If that is some permanent change here, I have to say that it is going to radically and negatively affect our ablility to follow new posts to threads, and will greatly diminish (if not eliminate) my desire to participate in this forum.
"Has this happened to others here as well?" Yes, myself and at least one or two others.
Let's hope it's temp in nature, a glitch with the new feature set.
Thank you SR for letting me know --- it was like suddenly going blind!
Whats a tracking list? Have i been blind all this time and didn't know it???
Right side of screen,
you see "Welcome, mess nonster", next to it "My Account" - click on it.
There WAS a tab labeled "Track". You could track others by clicking on their names, as well.
Pretty damn handy, shame if we lost it to a RSS feature.
This would all be really really relevant and interesting if it weren't for the fact that the administration basically doubled our debt in its 4 years. I have a feeling their motto is "Dam the consequences, let's bankrupt these bitchez!"
Yes yes, damn the consequences of paying negative real interest on as much money as we care to borrow! Ron Paul save us! lol
http://youtu.be/4HJ54RRB7OU
had a high school US history teacher that had a us debt clock on the wall in his classroom back in 1996 or so i think it was like 4 trillion. He always said this was going to be the defining issue for our generation. I really wish i knew then what i know now.. I wish I could have chatted more with him and that he would have taught me the importance of gold. so i would say he failed because it was so easy to teach us a quick lesson on usury, compound interest, the federal reserve, gold and silver.. but he was part way there.. RIP Pullis AHS
"I really wish i knew then what i know now.."
You'd have been subjected to being able to see craziness much SOONER! It really is hard to stay sane in all of this.
Really like the video. My only question is are the historic war costs in nominal or real dollar terms? I understand this video is directed at all the blind sheeple and that a basic ECON 101 discussion on nominal versus real historic valuations is a bit much, but I'm sure some of the zero hedge ppls know this off the top of their pretty/schizophrenic/erudite heads.
Only 67 trillion in unfunded liabilities?? Not even close more like 114 trillion, TIMES UP
http://usdebt.kleptocracy.us/
Hmmm..."The market sets interest rates." Yup, we'll get right on that debt paydown thingy. Maybe we can borrow some money to do that? He's an econ professor; go figure.
The baby boomers are blatantly using everything they can and causing as much damage as they can before they expire. If we want to survive what is coming, we need to stop funding all the people who do the wrong things.
http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Wealth-Mr-Andrew-Costello/dp/1463523017/ref
"The baby boomers are blatantly using everything they can and causing as much damage as they can before they expire."
Yeah, blaming others works!
This is the SYSTEM, it's been in place for a LONG time. The current paradigm [next version] pretty much started with the invention of the Fed. Then came BIG world wars. These created the State in its current form, creating the "patriotic" propaganda that enabled people to pour more and more of their labor and allegiance toward TPTB: warfare+welfare state.
The Greatest Generation is the last one to rake in the bennies. Baby Boomers are going to start seeing the cracks, and start falling into them...
Look the banksters don't have any expectations that any debt is ever going to be paid back. Fact: They know it is over. That is why executive orders are being signed to allow the banksters to instead wage WAR against the citizens. They are building up and funding all the agencies necessary to kill as many Americans as they choose and they have given control of the US military to the UN and Nato. Those are the facts. The banksters are going to attack us with the US Federally controlled military and various nefarious agencies. So stop talking about debt and instead start talking about the creation of a judicial process, whether it takes place at the state level or wherever, that will have these criminals locked up and prosecuted. Time is running out. None of these old economic ideas address the real current issues.
"They are building up and funding all the agencies necessary to kill as many Americans as they choose and they have given control of the US military to the UN and Nato."
That's the cart before the horse. The UN and NATO are under the control of the bankers!
I don't believe that the "plan" is to kill a bunch of citizens as much as it's about protecting the wealthy. But, yeah, "protection" almost always comes down to killing... Just don't think that it's going to be some sort of big FEMA roundup (not like TPTB wouldn't prefer this over what WILL occur).
You are right that they know it is over and are preparing the agencies and mock "legal" framework to impose martial law on a whim. But it's not for war against the people ... simple starvation will be far more effective.
It will only take a couple of days for the shelves to be emptied after some unfortunate event disrupts the supply chain. Then, 300 million sheep will be bleating at the gates of the FEMA camps to be let IN for a feed.
Surprisingly, only "loyal" troopers of the Criminal Occupation Government will be guaranteed food from the commandeered "national emergency" stockpiles. The rest of the country will get the leftovers--if any. Just look at African states after military coups to see how it works.
#or three times the annual operating expenses of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
only idiot compare interest expexnse to cost of war.. well what would you expect from some kind bearded heck?
here's true analysis:
US FED gov collects about 1.6-7 trln $ per year(rest of of revenues is debt, masked as revenues), so each 100 basis points (1%) increase in interest rates will drain additional ~10% of revenues... 2% more - 20%..
WE WILL NEVER SEE 5% FOR 10YY EVER AGAIN, w/out somekind of default/restructure/etc.. its MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE.. 5% ON 15+ TLN OF DEBT is 750-800 bln, so its half of real revenues..
SO YOU MUST BRAVELY BUY ANY DIP IN 10 yy BOND.. it wont last.. i guess its best strategy for next 3-5 years..
alx
ps
forgot to add.. principal is up too.. in short 3-4 years, its gonna be 20 trln, so 3.5% interest rate on 20 trln, is same as 5% on 15 trln, more or less
I share your view on low rates. Not neccassirly as a trade though. Bit too close to the end of the trend to try and be a friend.
It's not illegal if the government does it.
It is illegal if the government acts against the Constitution. That's what the Supreme Court is supposed to determine.
Just about everything the Federal Government has done in the past 144 years has been unconstitutional and therefore illegal ... but, they have an exceptionally gifted PR department and, as of a few years ago, a Supreme Court stacked with Luciferians that will never act to stop them now.
so how much more interest us will pay if interest rate rises.
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The usual US citizen trick.
Actually, it is not about repaying debt but consuming as much as possible through debt.
The highest level of consumption is always achieved when one can issue debt that will not be repaid.
That is what US citizens are working at.
No matter what, less is less. So less resources mean less resources, debt paid or not.
US citizens have chosen the path of the unsustainable debt for a purpose.
A purpose this US citizen narrator is trying to offuscate.
The Fed is the bong vigilante, interest will never rise, we'll print into banana republic status.
The wars are off balance sheet and a hell of a lot more costly. I've seen estimates of $4 trillion to date.