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Treasury Adds Another $20 Billion In Debt Overnight, Just $160 Billion Below Revised Ceiling
Zero Hedge ^ | 8/08/2011 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 08/08/2011 5:30:11 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian

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To: Former Proud Canadian

Don’t forget the government had been running for months on money diverted from pension funds etc. I’m guessing they paid the overdue money into these funds after the debt ceiling was lifted.


21 posted on 08/09/2011 5:55:53 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

But Alan Greenspan said...


22 posted on 08/09/2011 5:56:35 AM PDT by listenhillary (Look your representatives in the eye and ask if they intend to pay off the debt. They will look away)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Inflation would make it sooner.

I wonder if the Fed is dumping it’s huge holdings of T notes into this market...


23 posted on 08/09/2011 6:09:00 AM PDT by mrsmith
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To: Former Proud Canadian
By the way, don't look for your present president

He's not my president, FRiend. :)

Default on the US debt is not really an option for a variety of reasons. US corporations have billions in overseas assets. Think plant and machinery.

I don't believe a foreign country can nationalize a private corporation's assets in compensation for that private corporation's sovereign's debt default. By that I mean a foreign country that follows international law (countries like Cuba and Venezuela have nationalized foreign-owned corporations just because they wanted to and nobody was going to stop them....).

24 posted on 08/09/2011 6:25:02 AM PDT by kevao
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If the US defaults on its debt, don't count on any "international law". ALL bets are off.

Do you actually believe that China is going to make a distinction between GM and the US government? Do you think they are going to follow some quaint notion of "international law" in the event of a default?

25 posted on 08/09/2011 6:28:58 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (We .. have a purpose .. no longer to please every dictator with a vote at the UN. PM Harper)
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