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Why China Can't Dump U.S. Treasuries

You mean you wouldn't sell high?


On Feb 13 06:36 PM Crocodilian wrote:

> Simple observation: Treasuries have been China's best foreign investment
> for the last few years.
>
> Why would you trash an investment that's UP %40 AND which serves
> a national strategic interest?
>
> Answer: You wouldn't.

Why China Can't Dump U.S. Treasuries

"When you’re sitting on the biggest mountain of surplus cash in the world, what do you do with it? This is the roughly $2 trillion dollar question that Chinese central bank officials have to wrestle with."

You invest it in your country...

In infrastructure. In businesses. In education...

Bad Bank, Bad Idea; Good Bank, Good Idea

This would only work if the government were calling the shots. They aren't and haven't been for decades. The banks call the shots.

A Financial History of the World

"the underlying problem in the financial crisis is too much outstanding debt."


Well DOH!

Fixing that means reforming the monetary system. All over the world.

Good luck with that.

David Reilly: "Banker bashing is great sport. It satisfies the populist need for an identifiable villain in the financial crisis. It provides an outlet for our collective anger. It absolves us from thinking about just how we - the credit-card-loving, mortgage-craving, debt-addicted consumers of America - helped foment the meltdown."

99% of the population don't realise that taking out a loan creates new money. They have no clue that credit based spending creates monetary inflation which causes a following deflation.

They really do think they are being loaned someone else's money.

The bankers on the other hand (should) know exactly what they're doing.

Tax Breaks for New Cars, But Not Doctor Bills?

It's simple.

Cars are the single largest purchase after a home.

People take out loans to buy cars. This increases lending and the money supply. It's more money for bankers.

U.S. Debt Default, Dollar Collapse Altogether Likely

On Feb 04 03:48 AM Dave Wrixon wrote:
> True the US has never done that before, but then the US has never
> been so badly managed before.


April 5th 1933
August 15th 1971

The USA has defaulted several times.

Bail Out the Future, Not the Past

"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks." - Lord Acton

Name Brand Stocks on the Edge of Obliteration

"these firms had too much debt to weather the storm. One of my central themes this year is that there are a lot more companies out there like these than investors realize."

Um... Didn't you know? There is more debt than there is credit to pay it. That's the way the money works. It's why there HAS to be "growth".

Defining Our Terms: What 'Private' Means

Y'now.

I'm not actually convinced that leaving the money creation and destruction process to money lenders is the epitome of wisdom... Politicians either.

They have a vested interest in inflation and deflation.

Davos '09 and the Failure of Leadership

Why would anyone trust a banking system built on a pyramid scheme? Or the politicians who are throwing trillions of citizens money at the people behind the scheme, begging for more?

The Nationalization Debate

Why nationalise? "Too big to fail"... Those words say it all.

The US banking system is literally taking the country down. It's like a leech, sucking US citizens dry.

They should have failed. They all should have been allowed to fail. That decision was taken though and you now have a whole bunch of zombie leeches still sucking away at the bleached white corpse which was America.

You all need to ask yourselves "What is money?". What is the nature of money? What affect does the nature of money have on the society I live within? Either that or just keep feeding the leeches.

Banks: The Final Countdown?

What the world really needs is for the banks to be allowed to die off of their own toxic consumption and for the monetary system to be replaced by something sane instead.

In Search of the Next Reserve Currency

SWRichmond largely has it. The dollar will remain the reserve currency until this guy:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

decides otherwise.

Course. Reserve currency has some unfortunate side effects. When the entire world is buying your currency, it deflates your economy massively. Everything starts to become very expensive, particularly employees. So you have to find some excuse to print trillions. The military is a great way to do that. So the entire world basically finances your military ambitions.

Mission Impossible? Obama Must Rebuild Confidence in Federal Government

How does one respond pro actively to new information?