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Greenspan: "The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that, so there is zero probability of default."
NBC News Meet the Press (YouTube clip) ^ | 08/07/2011

Posted on 05/12/2023 1:07:12 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat

Flashback 8/7/2011:

David Gregory: "Are U.S. treasury bonds still safe to invest in?"

Alan Greenspan: "Very much so. This is not an issue of credit rating..the United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that, so there is zero probability of default."

(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: alangreenspan; debtlimit; default; idiotsincharge; thief
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To: Jamestown1630

We’ll be taking wheelbarrows of cash to buy a bag of potatoes at the store.


Assuming there are potatoes and stores.


21 posted on 05/12/2023 1:31:38 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: jeffersondem

Before the virus a 4x8 sheet of oak plywood was running about $72.

It was $144 at the beginning of the week.


22 posted on 05/12/2023 1:32:47 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: nesnah

23 posted on 05/12/2023 1:33:16 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Dems loot & riot -called "protesting" by media. Repub's protest -called "looting & rioting" by media)
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To: windsorknot

Going by looks, Greenspan married himself.


24 posted on 05/12/2023 1:35:01 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (Welcome to The Biden Clown Show.)
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To: cgbg

Figgered. Worth a try though. LOL


25 posted on 05/12/2023 1:38:29 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Hold on tight to your dream)
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To: Republican Wildcat

I guess this means that I can print my own money.

So how easy that is.


26 posted on 05/12/2023 1:38:45 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: jeffersondem

It is bad, and worse than the media-governmental complex say.


27 posted on 05/12/2023 1:41:41 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

1. printing money causes inflation.

2. stealing money to Ukraine from taxpayers without
Congressional consent is TREASON.


28 posted on 05/12/2023 1:50:13 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Republican Wildcat
"The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that, so there is zero probability of default."

When creditors refuse to accept your worthless currency, it's still a default. Ask the Weimar Republic.

29 posted on 05/12/2023 1:59:49 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Republican Wildcat

If I were in charge of education, this would be required viewing by all kids before graduating high school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu_VqX6J93k


30 posted on 05/12/2023 2:03:15 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Weimar Republic. nobody will accept our fiat money soon. It’s not backed by anything but hot air.


31 posted on 05/12/2023 2:05:59 PM PDT by meyer (FBI = KGB for the DNC; IRS = Gestapo)
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To: PGR88
He basically was describing QE or Fed monetization of Government debt.

Like a corporation issuing more stock: Dilution. All the saved money the old folks were depending on quickly gets anemic; it simply doesn't buy as much anymore.

"Inflation" is too kind a word. "Monetization" is ignoring the damage. "QE" is hiding the issue with Newspeak.

32 posted on 05/12/2023 2:07:52 PM PDT by Tellurian (To the Dems, the middle class is a festering wound. They want it amputated.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

basically devaluing the money they pay back thereby paying less.

if i knew this was the intention of those looking to borrow from me, i’d never lend them money


33 posted on 05/12/2023 2:36:29 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Hmmm...Didn’t realize Greenspan was a MMT type of economist. I thought he at least paid lip service to the Chicago school.


34 posted on 05/12/2023 2:54:40 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: sten

Youve been here long enough, I guess you missed that thread. It was somewhere back around 99, maybe early 2000, that there was someone that posted a CFR-TRILAT paper on this forum that was supposedly taken from a meeting. It stated that this was the entire plan quite a way back. Borrow money from everyone and crash it all then pay it back with junk paper.

Ive brought it up a few times over the years and it has always drawn out shills.

Not as good as a bucktail but I suppose its all in the presentation.


35 posted on 05/12/2023 3:31:26 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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To: Jamestown1630

When you have wheelbarrows of cash, forego dinner and pay off debts with it.


36 posted on 05/12/2023 4:15:04 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (Repent, turn back to your first Love. If you do well you will be blessed, if not...America 2023)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Why then do we need taxes and the IRS to collect said taxes?


37 posted on 05/12/2023 4:36:43 PM PDT by waredbird
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To: Reno89519

Yes.


38 posted on 05/12/2023 4:49:09 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: gnarledmaw

i remember, and i pointed out the problem when discussed.

devaluing the dollar to the point of collapse has been their intention since the 30s.


39 posted on 05/12/2023 4:51:25 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Amazing Mr. Andrea Mitchell was put into the Gov. positions that he was this those kind of ignorant thoughts.


40 posted on 05/12/2023 6:06:39 PM PDT by DAC21
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