Are We About to Repeat the Mistakes of 1937?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Free Thinker, Oct 25, 2012.

  1. And those are the EXACT same conditions which caused all the mal-investment from 2003-07. "Starving for yield" or "chasing yield" by otherwise risk averse individuals or entities...they wound up stuffed to the gills with worthless MBS and other derivative "junk".

    Ultimately, there is another cleansing of the mal-investment and the cycle repeats over and over again with this current monetary system.
     
    #21     Oct 25, 2012
  2. Stability as in balance between rev and expenses. I guess you mean the deficit is coming down as a % of GDP, again it is in a completely trivial way. We may not be being punished for it atm, but our credit has been downgraded, suppose we need to pay more int for our borrowing. Suppose we have a major war. Suppose hc costs continue to rise, unsustainable medicare continues to cost more. SS is expected to begin paying out more than it takes in + interest, within the next decade. Obamacare goes into effect in 2 years. With our current growth we don't have the ability to handle any of these things, certainly not all of them. The point is we are not in a fiscally sustainable position. We DO have a spending problem, and on the present course it is only going to worsen.
     
    #22     Oct 25, 2012
  3. Ricter's answer to all of the above is to "borrow more"...
     
    #23     Oct 25, 2012
  4. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    Ricter retard never met a government program or tax he didn't like.
     
    #24     Oct 25, 2012
  5. Germany after WWI and Iceland recently showed the world how to deal with the "problem" of austerity.....
     
    #25     Oct 25, 2012