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And just where does the U.S. of A. intend to find all this money? Are you planning to Weimar the problem? Or maybe tax the rich?

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Sat Jan 10th, 2009 at 04:26:45 AM EST
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They are planning to tax the rich.  Pelosi's made quite clear that repealing the Bush tax cuts needs to be part of this.  Some of them want to repeal the cuts immediately.  Some want to just let them expire come 2010.  It's just a question of when.  Payroll taxes on people above the $250k/year mark are going to rise, too.

Right now, getting the money isn't a huge problem, because the flight to safety has been so strong that rates are at ridiculously low levels.  I suspect such large-scale borrowing will eventually result in long-term rates rising.

"Weimar" might merit some concern down the road, depending on the effects of the Fed going for a ZIRP, but quite the opposite is the concern right now.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat Jan 10th, 2009 at 10:39:28 AM EST
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Doesn't the failure of the German bond auction the other day (by 1/3) concern you?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/4163037/Bond-scare-as-German-auction-fail s-and-British-debt-hits-danger-level.html

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Sat Jan 10th, 2009 at 12:15:07 PM EST
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Oh, absolutely, it concerns me.  But I don't think it's worthy -- for now -- of the kind of panic that seems to have greeted it in the blogosphere.

As they say, we'll drive off that bridge if we come to it, Mary-Jo.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sat Jan 10th, 2009 at 12:27:42 PM EST
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