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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CynicalTruth who wrote (5143)	3/17/2008 2:17:15 PM
From: stan_hughes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71477

"if they would just send those rates negative" Be careful what you wish for, or you will surely get it ZIRP is a real possibility for the US -- it's even advocated by some groups, e.g. PIMCO, although they also have their own agenda to pursue there Besides, current negative real interest rates (i.e. net of inflation losses) actually means that you are already paying the government by holding their paper -- I figure it's something around 5% right now, maybe more And as long as everyone (including foreigners) keeps lending the government money at these negative real rates, they're probably going to stay negative until that stops