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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (69691)5/3/2018 3:46:09 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 355038
 
The US government investing in US government bonds isn't a real investment.

Just as if I take money out of my savings account and blow it on wild partying and then promise to pay it all back with interest that promise doesn't represent a real investment for me.

Yes there are reasons sometimes to get down to a lower level and consider the different funds not just the overall balance. For the Social Security program the government bonds are a real investment.

But its the overall balance that's most important in the end, and shuffling money around from fund to fund, or from my left pocket to my right, doesn't represent an investment when you consider the whole.
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