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Are we collectively bankrupt?

U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know: Laurence Kotlikoff

Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt.

Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills.

…Last month, the International Monetary Fund released its annual review of U.S. economic policy.

…the IMF has effectively pronounced the U.S. bankrupt. Section 6 of the July 2010 Selected [...]

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Sobering Thoughts on the Demographics of the Baby Boom, Savings, Entitlement Benefits and Monetary Policy

If workers earn, pay taxes, spend, save and invest,
while retirees divest, downsize, budget
and draw income and healthcare benefits,
what’s going to happen when more retirees want
what fewer workers may not be able to deliver?

It is incumbent on government to convey to future retirees
that the real resources currently promised to be available on retirement,
will not [...]

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If credit peaks does employment, globalization and peace?

To avoid the shortcomings of sovereign credit currencies
acting as reserve currencies,
we need to create an … international reserve currency
that can maintain the long-term stability of its value.

People’s Bank of China

If US dollars became redeemable only for themselves in 1971,
why are most international financial transactions
still denominated in American currency?

What would happen if [...]

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How could fiscal 2008’s reported Federal Deficitbe only $455 billionif Total Debt increased by more than $1 trillion?

Date                    9/30/2008                         9/30/2009

 

Value                    $10,024,725,000,000            $11,909,828,000,000

 

 

 

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On Peak Oil: Could long term economic recovery be limited to available and/or affordable energy supplies?

Branson warns that oil crunch: Energy crisis threatens to be more serious than credit crunch

Sir Richard Branson and fellow leading businessmen will warn ministers this week that the world is running out of oil and faces an oil crunch within five years.

…Other British executives who will support the warning include Ian Marchant, chief executive of [...]

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If North Carolina bumps up against borrowing capacity, should Greensboro and Guilford County budgetary expectations fall?

Sometimes I wonder
whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on,
or by imbeciles who really mean it.

 Mark Twain

Study: N.C. has little room to borrow

North Carolina has essentially exhausted its ability to borrow money for state buildings and roads if it wants to protect its top credit [...]

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If water was money and grass was credit, and Cheetahs and Gazelles were people, who would be who?

Current world population    6.8 billion

 

Net growth per day      218,030

 

2040 Forecast    9 billion

 

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If credit peaksdoes employment, globalization and peace?

 We have lent a huge amount of money to the US

so of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets

 

Frankly speaking, I do have some worries

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Did the world’s wealthiest generationforfeit their children’s financial futurefor present prosperity?

The median household

with a person between the ages of 55 and 64

 saw its wealth fall by almost 50 percent

from $315,400 in 2004 [...]

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Has Globalization Peaked?

 

 …If historians look back on today’s severe downturn

with its crumbling markets, rising unemployment

 and massive government interventions

 they could well be busy analyzing how [...]

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