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Topics => Economy => Topic started by: Weisshaupt on January 31, 2012, 05:26:40 PM

Title: The Debt is a Non-Issue
Post by: Weisshaupt on January 31, 2012, 05:26:40 PM
Mike Norman: 'US debt is a myth!' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HJ54RRB7OU#)

The Neo-Keynesian argument. You see, we can always print more, and we control the interest rate, so nothing bad can  happen. We will always be solvent - or at least until you spend beyond our ability to produce, but we have so many unemployed we aren't even close to that happening.  WTF?

Title: Re: The Debt is a Non-Issue
Post by: IronDioPriest on January 31, 2012, 05:36:42 PM
These are the ones who will wail and gnash their teeth most vociferously when their world is yanked out from under them.
Title: Re: The Debt is a Non-Issue
Post by: John Florida on January 31, 2012, 06:26:24 PM
  So if that's right I can pay in imaginary dollars instead of real dollars?
Title: Re: The Debt is a Non-Issue
Post by: michelleo on January 31, 2012, 09:41:38 PM
These are the ones who will wail and gnash their teeth most vociferously when their world is yanked out from under them.

....and scream, "You did this do us! On purpose!"
Title: Re: The Debt is a Non-Issue
Post by: Libertas on February 01, 2012, 07:23:38 AM
 So if that's right I can pay in imaginary dollars instead of real dollars?

Yes, just give them IOU's based upon future income that may or may not come in, depending on your own debt service needs.  Let me know how that works out for ya!

And Weisshaupt, as far as the "The Neo-Keynesian argument. You see, we can always print more, and we control the interest rate, so nothing bad can  happen." goes, it jives with my "Paper, paper, paper!" comment on your "New Debt Graphs" thread!  Issue more paper, print more money, paper solves all!

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These Neo-Keynesians will ruin us all.  But trying to convince a majority of people of that appears to be just a tad difficult, eh?

 ::unknowncomic::