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To: Siena Dreaming

“Nonsense. Boehner’s gotten exactly what he wanted. Cuts equal to the debt ceiling with NO tax hikes.”

It would have to be $1.299 trillion (not $1.1 trillion) for the cut to be equal to a $1.0 trillion debt ceiling increase.

U.S. ten year Treasury note is, 2.99% interest per year. For every $1 trillion borrowed a total of $299 billion in interest is owed.


172 posted on 07/25/2011 11:24:39 AM PDT by moshiach
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To: moshiach

I think your decimal is off moshiach


214 posted on 07/25/2011 11:56:36 AM PDT by Principled
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