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Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt, says S&P
CNN ^ | 4/11/22 | Anna Cooban

Posted on 04/11/2022 10:31:10 AM PDT by C210N

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To: CodeJockey
USA is closing in on a 29,000,000,000,000 national debt.

No it's not.

It's much Much MUCH higher than that! That's just the optical surface amount used in federal "accounting".

41 posted on 04/11/2022 11:00:12 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: McGavin999

Russia knows what we should also be aware, if not know, that the fiat dollar has outlived its usefulness, and will fall.

Gold will KILL the FED. We’re watching it in realtime.

Silver will bury it.

(see usdebtclock link in other reply)


42 posted on 04/11/2022 11:01:53 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: MeganC

“Why don’t they pay in gold if they have enough?”

Why should they?


43 posted on 04/11/2022 11:01:57 AM PDT by chuckb87
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To: DannyTN

Russia has broken every agreement ever signed.


44 posted on 04/11/2022 11:02:03 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: MeganC

“Gold has value and rubles don’t.”

A commodity backed ruble will have plenty of value, while the Euro becomes toilet paper. Playing currency wars at this point is going to be economic suicide for the West.


45 posted on 04/11/2022 11:02:20 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: C210N

When you owe the bank $100 and default, it is your problem.

When you owe the bank billions and default, it is their issue.


46 posted on 04/11/2022 11:03:00 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: BiglyCommentary
A better example is that you get arrested and thrown into prison for a violent home invasion and can’t pay your bills. Meanwhile …

1. The cop who arrested you is the ringleader of his own home invasion crew.
2. The prosecutor in your case is the guy who fences the stolen property for the aforementioned cop.
3. The judge in your case was the same one who covers up this racket by putting innocent people in prison who are falsely charged with these home invasions.

47 posted on 04/11/2022 11:04:31 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: C210N

“We’re watching it in realtime.”

I’m watching the US dollar index climb to new 20 year highs.


48 posted on 04/11/2022 11:05:12 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Rusty0604

I don’t know what the mortgage holders in Canada did. It sounds like Canada started lifting the freeze after about 9 days. So I doubt many truckers defaulted on their mortgages.

And a peaceful protest in Canada can’t be compared to invading a sovereign country. I’d expect Canadian mortgage holders to be a little more sympathetic, than holders of Russian debt.


49 posted on 04/11/2022 11:05:26 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: mewzilla

Because FED, neither federal nor a reserve but owned by a few families and about 300 stockholders, is in the process of folding.

They are saying screw-you to the west holders of their debt, as there is nothing the west can do about it. It’s a challenge, with no effective repercussions.

Lots of other benefits to Russia - like exposing Deep State Cabal cronies (I’m talking about the bidEn family here), their money/arms/child trafficking.


50 posted on 04/11/2022 11:06:20 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: jimwatx

Endlessly making dollars on a computer at the Fed is also economic suicide and it’s a lot worse than what Russia might be doing!


51 posted on 04/11/2022 11:06:25 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC

Yep, more silver though... just compare the two fiat-dollar value wise.


52 posted on 04/11/2022 11:07:01 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: C210N

Lead is good to have around too! (-;


53 posted on 04/11/2022 11:08:31 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Alberta's Child

Why is there not a dimes worth of difference between those talking points and the same ones spouted by people like AOC or other Squad members? “The US is an evil colonizer, the Great Satan. “.


54 posted on 04/11/2022 11:10:43 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Renfrew

Or it might be a message to the world to stop doing business in dollars.


55 posted on 04/11/2022 11:12:07 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Renfrew
This is a message to the world. The USA has the ability to make any bond worthless. That will make everyone reluctant to lend to countries that are not our friend, and will increase the borrowing costs of enemy nations.

You might want to think a bit more about that.

1. It makes everyone reluctant to own U.S. assets first and foremost.

2. It gives everyone a huge incentive to borrow money from U.S. institutions without having any concern about paying it back.

In the example I used on this thread, the person in the best position is the one who owes $300,000 to the bank for a mortgage on a $250,000 home … and who doesn’t have a checking account to lock down because he makes his mortgage payment in rolls of dimes and quarters every month.

56 posted on 04/11/2022 11:15:46 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: montag813
Yep, exactly.

This just in from the Circle-back girl:

White House warns of "extraordinarily elevated" inflation data ahead of tomorrow's report.

A precious-metals backed currency is the answer. Worked for thousands of years. The short few years of relying on citizen-trust of a government willing to print limitless currency is in it's death throes.

57 posted on 04/11/2022 11:15:59 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: BiglyCommentary

Isn’t DXY just a comparison of US debt notes to a basket of other debt notes? DXY going up doesn’t necessarily mean the dollar is becoming more valuable, it could also mean it is just devaluing slower than other paper.


58 posted on 04/11/2022 11:16:08 AM PDT by bak3r
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To: BiglyCommentary

“I’m watching the US dollar index climb to new 20 year highs.”

That’s just temporary and only because it’s seen as a safe haven during times of economic uncertainty and is what happens to it just before a major market crash. The Euro will be destroyed first, later hyperinflation in the US to follow after Euro denominated assets are done fleeing to US treasuries. After that there won’t be much left to hold up the dollar.


59 posted on 04/11/2022 11:16:16 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: MeganC

Yep, should have it around. In good quantities, too.

That said, Civil War II, watering liberty tree and using the ammo box should not be required now. The price of liberty was already paid by the founders, and the framers created the form of government we have to redress our grievances. We must educate ourselves in doing so, and we are.

To use the ammo box is to start from scratch, and IMHO we continue the Constitution shred that the Deep State/Great Reset is engaged in now. We’ll wind up with nothing like the Constitution, after that dust settles.


60 posted on 04/11/2022 11:21:01 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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