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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory

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DJ Fed Olson: If Unchecked, Budget Deficits Corrode US Econ

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--Federal Reserve Governor Mark Olson warned Wednesday that an unaddressed widening of the U.S. government's budget deficit would pose a major threat to the economy.

"If left unchecked, persistent and widening federal government deficits will have an increasingly corrosive effect on the U.S. economy," Olson said in remarks prepared for delivery in Vancouver to the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think tank. "All else being equal, federal government borrowing takes up some of the funds that would otherwise go to finance capital accumulation or to purchase capital assets from abroad."
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