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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mishedlo who wrote (75205)	12/10/2006 7:55:07 PM
From: Sunny Jim	Respond to of 110194

Things may just be different this time. When we had the dot.com bust we didn't have the huge budget deficit and trade deficit that we have now. Investors may not be so eager to pile into US govt bonds, and it's likely that rates might be forced up in order to entice investors to assume the risk of a less credit worthy US government. I agree that the US government isn't going to default in the traditional sense, but I also think that investors aren't going to be as hungry for US debt as they have been in the past (and that may be an understatement).