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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (31589)	6/11/2010 7:26:29 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Re: "The Japs also have a high savings rate and can finance that kind of debt through it's own citizenry." I have big doubts that they can sustain a debt-to-GNP ratio of over 200% like they have no matter how high their savings rate is supposed to be. (PARTICULARLY without population growth --- and they have one of the oldest demographics in the world. And ESPECIALLY paying just 0.5% or less on time deposits. And their economy has been flirting with deflation and zero or even negative growth rates for over a decade already....) Re: "We will encounter our own austerity measures in just a few short years." Sooner then that, I hope! Getting our structural deficits under control needs to start by 2011 at the latest....