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Robert Rubin Warns News Deficits Could Result in a Crisis at Any Moment
Economic Policy Journal ^ | 2/15/2011 | Robert Wenzel

Posted on 02/15/2011 9:54:49 AM PST by FromLori

Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's warnings about the economy and debt situation are getting louder and louder. Speaking at CME Group’s Global Financial Leadership Conference in Naples, Fla, he warned that Federal deficits are on an unsustainable trajectory, and large state and local budget gaps must be closed. He also said:

I think the prospects for the United States economy for both the short term and the long term are the most complex and uncertain of my adult lifetime.That obviously creates an extremely difficult decision-making environment for investors, for business people, for policymakers and for our people...

Substantial new deficits could also lead to sudden and unexpected disruptions in market psychology and, following from that, disruptions in the bond market.... He also added that a weaker dollar could lead to dangerous competitive devaluations and that those devaluations could lead to financial chaos, or restrictive trade measures elsewhere in the world. Commodity prices are already increasing as a result and could undermined the development of additional demand, he said, but the most serious problem is that the new program of quantitative easing has heightened existing concern that we might, at some point, monetize our debt to try to inflate our way out of our fiscal problems.

Rubin noted the box the U.S is in given that the politics of deficit reduction are enormously difficult, because the American people do not want tax increases or spending reductions that would affect them.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deficit; economy; inflation
Pretty funny our debt is already being monetized.
1 posted on 02/15/2011 9:54:52 AM PST by FromLori
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To: FromLori

Rubin is a POS who paid lavishly for running Citigroup into the ground. Hussein bailed em out to the tune of $380 BILLION in part because Prince Al Waleed is a major shareholder - like he is in Fox News.


2 posted on 02/15/2011 9:56:31 AM PST by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
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To: FromLori

3 posted on 02/15/2011 9:56:57 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: FromLori

What’s the problem, are we running out of ink?


4 posted on 02/15/2011 9:58:21 AM PST by Jack of all Trades (Stop the change - I want to get off!)
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To: FromLori; All
"Robert Rubin Warns News Deficits Could Result in a Crisis at Any Moment"


5 posted on 02/15/2011 10:00:59 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Frantzie

“I think the prospects for the United States economy for both the short term and the long term are the most complex and uncertain of my adult lifetime.That obviously creates an extremely difficult decision-making environment for investors, for business people, for policymakers and for our people...”.


He’s scared.


6 posted on 02/15/2011 10:01:12 AM PST by unkus
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

lol picture worth a thousand words like I said our debt is already being monetized even Fed’s Fisher talked about it but no one does anything about it.


7 posted on 02/15/2011 10:01:32 AM PST by FromLori (FromLori">)
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To: FromLori
the politics of deficit reduction are enormously difficult

And that's why holding the debt ceiling steady is the way to go. It becomes mathematical. The politicians have to cut this much money. Put everything on the table, hand out axes, and start the process.

So long as the debt ceiling is allowed to rise, the politicians will see a patient with gangrene in his leg, and they will recommend a pedicure.

8 posted on 02/15/2011 10:05:17 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (BO + MB = BOMB -- The One will make sure they get one.)
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To: FromLori
Record debt + rising interest rates.

We are so screwed!

9 posted on 02/15/2011 10:09:53 AM PST by Palmetto Patriot (Just exactly when is the next Election?)
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To: FromLori
And they are talking of doing QE 3. I can't see how this isn't a recipe for disaster.


10 posted on 02/15/2011 10:10:30 AM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: unkus

Rubin has a lot to do with cooking up the current financial crisis with his socialist pal, Clintoon. He is the one who worked out the deal of bank deregulation in exchange droping “racist” loan qualification standards.

He knows he screwed the pooch and I am sure he could really care less what happens to the US given he is a ‘citizen of the world.’


11 posted on 02/15/2011 10:21:23 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: FromLori

Rubin is one of the primary CREATORS of this mess, and he got paid handsomely for it....


12 posted on 02/15/2011 10:40:18 AM PST by tcrlaf (Democrats Outforced America's Jobs for 40 Years. Now The Bill Is Due)
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To: SaraJohnson

Sorry bastards, all.


13 posted on 02/15/2011 10:49:01 AM PST by unkus
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To: FromLori

Didn’t work so well when Weimar did it, did it?


14 posted on 02/15/2011 3:16:29 PM PST by therightliveswithus
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To: FromLori

A globalist, predicting the past.


15 posted on 02/15/2011 7:07:52 PM PST by familyop
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