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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: neolib who wrote (113529)3/30/2008 4:02:04 PM
From: HawkmoonRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
Demand for investments is no justification for any private or public organization going into further debt to provide the product.

In most cases, I agree with you. But I still approve of government spending in instances of private market failure, or to develop technologies the private market has no incentive to produce (space program and spin-offs are good example)..

But certainly deficit spending should not involve entitlements.. They should be "pay as you go". IMO, the Social Security surplus FICA tax revenues should be approved for individual investments by private investors.

While the market environment currently might seem to make such a prospect overly risky, over time the private market returns far exceed those of T-bill interest rates.

Hawk
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