Professor Membrane wrote: Not now son, I'm making ... TOAST!
hope_full wrote:Today's headlines say that the US government is considering a massive bailout of Freddie and Fannie.
http://biz.yahoo.com/nytimes/080711/119 ... .html?.v=4
And the FDIC will have to bail out IndyMac. And they've already thrown billions at Bear-Stearns. And then there's the problem with Lehman's. And the war, which is hugely expensive. And maybe another war with Iran. And then there's the entitlements.
I'm really puzzled as to where all this money is coming from. I've owned small businesses for most of the last 20 years and we lived by a little something called a "BUDGET."
Can someone please explain how the US can keep pulling trillion-dollar bills out of its hat to finance all these wars and these mega-financial collapses??
hope_full wrote:
Can someone please explain how the US can keep pulling trillion-dollar bills out of its hat to finance all these wars and these mega-financial collapses??
hope_full wrote:Can someone please explain how the US can keep pulling trillion-dollar bills out of its hat to finance all these wars and these mega-financial collapses??
mmasters wrote:The US Government basically has an unlimited credit line with the Federal Reserve. When the US Government wants money it issues a Treasury bond. The Federal Reserve buys these bonds and does so with money that does not exist in any account. They simply write a check and the money enters the bank as real money. This is done in exchange for the Treasury Bond.
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