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As far back as I can remember (I'll flatter myself, and date that to ~1958), I've been told by Civics teachers and such that the national debt is not a problem since "We owe it to ourselves."<BR/><BR/>The proposition has become increasing less plausible over the years, especially lately, but I was still somewhat surprised to see that "we" didn't even make the top eight in your graph of holders of Treasury securities. Am I missing something, or discovering that the situation is even worse than I thought?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11439010.post-55988078010608905152008-12-05T03:40:00.000-05:002008-12-05T03:40:00.000-05:00great explanation of aig thank yougreat explanation of aig thank youAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11439010.post-84033296886240635562008-11-26T12:31:00.000-05:002008-11-26T12:31:00.000-05:00This is excellent. Who are you?See Chris Whalen's...This is excellent. Who are you?<BR/><BR/>See Chris Whalen's take on the same subject at Barry Ritholtz' site, ritholtz.com, in the "cafe" section. Somewhat similar to yours, less well articulated.Daniel Kwiathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18087836942435435388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11439010.post-35167732431586153032008-11-15T12:17:00.000-05:002008-11-15T12:17:00.000-05:00I am an insurance agent in Michigan with www.getgl...I am an insurance agent in Michigan with www.getgliga.com and we see our banking relationships starting to change. As competition is reduced by consolidation and insurance premiums on banks increase, we are seeing our fees increase. I look around the Detroit area banks and they are raising costs to bank there. Fees are not only going to become common place, they are going to create the next wave of profit mongers on the backs of American citizens. Move over Exxon, there's a new money siphon in town. Banking and Insurance companies. We thought the oil companies were socking it to us, wait to see what happens now.Donald Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02700615211491561324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11439010.post-57165561500920844072008-09-14T19:55:00.000-04:002008-09-14T19:55:00.000-04:00Thanks David, this is really well thought out and ...Thanks David, this is really well thought out and put together, and for me, perhaps not surprisingly as an economist, it is the Republican’s intransigence on fiscal policy that is the single factor that makes it very unlikely I can vote for them in the fall. (While there are other things to dislike, the same can certainly be said of the D’s). <BR/> <BR/>Even under Mr. Supply Side Reagan, the R’s signed off on a major tax increase to support Social Security, something the current party leaders almost certainly would not be willing to do. Another example of the change was the 1986 Tax Reform Act, in which the need to raise certain revenues in order to cut others was acknowledged. The assertion by the current Republicans in Congress that such a policy represents an unacceptable tax increase is a blatant example of single-entry accounting, which we know they should know better than. This is lying. Who would have ever thought we would look to the ‘80’s as an era of relative fiscal prudence?!!!<BR/> <BR/>Their willingness under the current admin. to increase military spending while at the same time cutting taxes is one of the greatest abdications of leadership since the McCarthy era. <BR/> <BR/>The willingness and ability of the R’s – many of whom are highly responsible as individuals -- to continue to advocate irresponsible policies is probably in part due to (1) the echo chamber effect governing so much of both parties’ activities; (2) Special interest politics masquerading as pro bono; (3) The inherent difficulty of assigning responsibility for budget outcomes (“I voted for that before I voted against it”) and (4) The lack of voter knowledge of the consequences of fiscal imprudence. <BR/> <BR/>The closest I can come to a rationale for the Republican approach is the sense of existential anguish one experiences watching a legislature prepare a budget. This is well epitomized in our debate here on whether to raise teacher’s salaries. It is obvious that we cannot hope to attract good people in large numbers to a profession that pays little more than a low-level manager at Wal-Mart. On the other hand, even the slightest acquaintance with the public school bureaucracy is enough to make you wonder if in fact the Soviets didn’t win the cold war. (My son has recently returned to the public school system as a freshman in high school and I literally had a “Major Major” moment with the school counselor assigned to prepare his schedule.) On the one hand, I can sympathize with a politician who throws up their hands and decides that tightening the purse strings is the only option available. However, this argument carries a lot more weight here in New Mexico, where the Repub.’s are pretty much permanently in the minority. 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We are like a chronic debtor who searches desperately for new reasons to borrow while our debts pile up past our ears, which are themselves stopped up to prevent any message of fiscal responsibility from being heard. <BR/> <BR/>The post housing bubble discussion of how our innocence was taken advantage of by unethical lenders was a useful reminder of most people’s lack of financial sophistication. We were sheltered from the consequences of this in the past by the restraint most lenders felt in exposing themselves to too much risk by extending credit to bad risk borrowers, as well as by a conservative regulatory scheme designed in response to the excesses of the 1920’s. In hindsight, it is amazing how durable that regime was. But now we are more sophisticated, and efficient financial markets are like a designer drug that satisfies our cravings while postponing the reckoning until … whenever! Apparently inflation is not the only consequence of too much liquidity, it also eliminates our need to confront the trade-offs that are an inevitable part of the financial side of life. Like sinners forced to go to church with a hangover on Sunday morning, we are in desperate need of a sermon from the likes of … who? Who could play the role of the respected Dad and talk some sense into this spoiled teenager? Apparently not Sen. McCain, who abandoned any reason someone would have for supporting his candidacy when it became necessary to appeal to a national audience. Not anyone from the Democratic Party, which has evolved into the perennial Mom, promising to forgive our transgressions with only the gentlest of reprimands, and dangling the prospect of a free-lunch economy with “living” wages, universal health care and fair trade taking away the need to make hard choices in our personal lives. <BR/> <BR/>In New Mexico, we made higher education free – as long as you can maintain a C average – and we still can’t get 40 percent of the kids to take it up. <BR/> <BR/>While there probably was never much of a demand for principled conservatism, there no longer appears to be a supply.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com