[citizen]

Torch: pretty certain the US economic expansion is now self-sustaining

panama agrees.

I don't agree. When it is truly self-sustaining, there will be no need for 0% interest rates and the continued printing of billions of Bernake Bucks every month. Also, no need for phony 5.0% growth figures, it will be real.

[expat_panama]

...no need for 0% interest rates and the continued printing of billions of Bernake Bucks every month...

At first glance the impulse is to point out that folks are in fact greater than zero paying interest rates, or to mention Bernanke's no longer there, but some how my guess is that it's not what you mean.