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Why have Obama and Bernanke failed to come to the greenback’s defense? Why is Washington continuing to spend, borrow and print knowing that by doing so they are, in effect, declaring war on the U.S. dollar?
Simple: THEY HAVE NO CHOICE!
Consider these fact
The U.S. government’s official debt is at an all-time high of $11.8 trillion. Every year, Washington has to make a staggering $335.3 billion in interest payments just to avoid default on that debt. In fact, just the interest on the national debt now equals 12% of all federal spending.
The Federal Reserve is also in hock up to its eyeballs — the liabilities on its balance sheet have DOUBLED — from $1.2 trillion a year ago to more than $2 trillion today.
Most terrifying of all — especially with the first wave of almost 4 million baby boomers reaching retirement age this year — unfunded government IOUs are coming due on Social Security, Medicare, and Federal pension payments. Those obligations are enormous: An estimated $104 TRILLION.
We are now the single most indebted nation in the history of the planet. We owe more to foreign investors, retirees and ordinary citizens than we could ever hope to repay.
And that’s not the half of it: Washington will add an all-time record $1.8 trillion to the national debt, pushing our budget deficits to almost 13% of GDP.
This year and every year for the foreseeable future, Washington will have to borrow 80% of the world’s surplus savings just to pay its bills!
Why have Obama and Bernanke failed to come to the greenback’s defense? Why is Washington continuing to spend, borrow and print knowing that by doing so they are, in effect, declaring war on the U.S. dollar?
Simple: THEY HAVE NO CHOICE!
Consider these fact
The U.S. government’s official debt is at an all-time high of $11.8 trillion. Every year, Washington has to make a staggering $335.3 billion in interest payments just to avoid default on that debt. In fact, just the interest on the national debt now equals 12% of all federal spending.
The Federal Reserve is also in hock up to its eyeballs — the liabilities on its balance sheet have DOUBLED — from $1.2 trillion a year ago to more than $2 trillion today.
Most terrifying of all — especially with the first wave of almost 4 million baby boomers reaching retirement age this year — unfunded government IOUs are coming due on Social Security, Medicare, and Federal pension payments. Those obligations are enormous: An estimated $104 TRILLION.
We are now the single most indebted nation in the history of the planet. We owe more to foreign investors, retirees and ordinary citizens than we could ever hope to repay.
And that’s not the half of it: Washington will add an all-time record $1.8 trillion to the national debt, pushing our budget deficits to almost 13% of GDP.
This year and every year for the foreseeable future, Washington will have to borrow 80% of the world’s surplus savings just to pay its bills!
The worst part is that this great debasement of the U.S. dollar is still in its early stages.
Washington's deficits, the off the charts borrowing by the U.S. Treasury ... and runaway money printing at the Fed you’re seeing right now all virtually guarantee that the declines in the greenback’s buying power we’ve seen so far are only a dress rehearsal for the dollar disaster to come.
This intentional destruction of our incomes, our savings, our investments and our retirements is far and away the single greatest theft of wealth in human history.
The worst part is that this great debasement of the U.S. dollar is still in its early stages.
Washington's deficits, the off the charts borrowing by the U.S. Treasury ... and runaway money printing at the Fed you’re seeing right now all virtually guarantee that the declines in the greenback’s buying power we’ve seen so far are only a dress rehearsal for the dollar disaster to come.
This intentional destruction of our incomes, our savings, our investments and our retirements is far and away the single greatest theft of wealth in human history.
Came across this and had to make a comment Wall.
Your analogy is not factually correct. GS created junk securites with faulty ratings from S&P, Moody's and the other POS rating agencies. They knew what they were writing was junk, and they sold it as triple AAA anyway. To protect their ass they bought insurance through AIG on it cause they knew it would eventually blow up in their face. Sure they paid AIG premiums on it, but they underpaid premiums based on faulty ratings that GS bribed the agencies to provide though promises of future revenue on underwritings. Using your analogy of insurance, it is no different than an individual obtaining health insurance under false pretenses and not disclosing a life threatening illness. That is insurance fraud and it is what GS committed.
I agree with you, AIG over leveraged themselves and made huge errors in judgement, but GS is not some innocent party, just trying to collect on some insurance premiums. They knowingly manipulated the system and used their connections in govt to ensure they were paid 100% on the dollar when all other parties were forced to accept pennies on the dollar for their toxic assets. And let's not forget, it was our tax dollars that paid them off, not AIG's pool of premiums. I used to think of GS as a champion of capitalism, until I realized that they are just the house at a large game of Wall Street blackjack and we are all the suckers at the table.
Came across this and had to make a comment Wall.
Your analogy is not factually correct. GS created junk securites with faulty ratings from S&P, Moody's and the other POS rating agencies. They knew what they were writing was junk, and they sold it as triple AAA anyway. To protect their ass they bought insurance through AIG on it cause they knew it would eventually blow up in their face. Sure they paid AIG premiums on it, but they underpaid premiums based on faulty ratings that GS bribed the agencies to provide though promises of future revenue on underwritings. Using your analogy of insurance, it is no different than an individual obtaining health insurance under false pretenses and not disclosing a life threatening illness. That is insurance fraud and it is what GS committed.
I agree with you, AIG over leveraged themselves and made huge errors in judgement, but GS is not some innocent party, just trying to collect on some insurance premiums. They knowingly manipulated the system and used their connections in govt to ensure they were paid 100% on the dollar when all other parties were forced to accept pennies on the dollar for their toxic assets. And let's not forget, it was our tax dollars that paid them off, not AIG's pool of premiums. I used to think of GS as a champion of capitalism, until I realized that they are just the house at a large game of Wall Street blackjack and we are all the suckers at the table.
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