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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject10/17/2003 1:54:20 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
US will have a Wile E. Coyote moment!

Krugman:

"The crisis won't come immediately. For a few years, the United States will still be able to borrow freely, simply because lenders assume that things will somehow work out.

But at a certain point we'll have a Wile E. Coyote moment. For those not familiar with the Road Runner cartoons, Coyote had a habit of running off cliffs and taking several steps on thin air before noticing that there was nothing underneath his feet. Only then would he plunge.

What will that plunge look like? It will certainly involve a sharp fall in the dollar and a sharp rise in interest rates. In the worst-case scenario, the government's access to borrowing will be cut off, creating a cash crisis that throws the nation into chaos.

seattlepi.nwsource.com
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