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

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To: mishedlo who wrote (30841)4/18/2005 1:28:34 AM
From: FrozenZ  Read Replies (2) of 110194
 
Great essay, thanks for that.

I did think you sort of glossed over the number one export the USA has which is agriculture, made possible of course by cheap illegal migrant labor (different topic).

In reading this and similar opinion pieces I am struck with a great sense of deja vu . All of the arguments made perfect sense to me the first time around during the Reagan years. Exploding budget deficits, trade deficits through the roof. Savings and Loan shenanigans, tax cuts for the wealthy, trickle down theory, going from the largest creditor nation to largest debtor.

There were many books written back in those days, (1981) about why it all would explode in our faces. I believed it then and I believe it again now, but I have no idea why it is different this time.
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