The International banks better start supporting the Small guy in the US, whether small businesses, or farmers. If they don't, the US government will gain control of everything.
Quote from endsongs:
I hope people realize the math behind why the Fed can't raise rates with unemployment high ( low tax revenues). These numbers might not be exact, but they are in the ballpark: The US is currently paying ~ 300billion per year interest on ~ 12trillion of debt with the Fed rate near 0%. The average interest rate on this debt is ~ 3.35% right now. If you add the ~ 11trillion additional debt projected to be run up by 2019 to this and assume the rate on gov't debt only rises to ~ 5.0% from 3.35% when the Fed raises rate, then you have 23trillion of debt with interest payments of ~ 1.2 trillion per year. Keep in mind this assumes a conservative ~1.5% increase in interest rates and not the ~ 5% or more I hear analysts speak of.
So, the added interest on this new debt will just about match the total of the debt itself. This seems to be approaching a parabolic point where there won't be enough money to pay interest on the debt much less have money left to borrow as principle.
Quote from endsongs:
I hope people realize the math behind why the Fed can't raise rates with unemployment high ( low tax revenues). These numbers might not be exact, but they are in the ballpark: The US is currently paying ~ 300billion per year interest on ~ 12trillion of debt with the Fed rate near 0%. The average interest rate on this debt is ~ 3.35% right now. If you add the ~ 11trillion additional debt projected to be run up by 2019 to this and assume the rate on gov't debt only rises to ~ 5.0% from 3.35% when the Fed raises rate, then you have 23trillion of debt with interest payments of ~ 1.2 trillion per year. Keep in mind this assumes a conservative ~1.5% increase in interest rates and not the ~ 5% or more I hear analysts speak of.
So, the added interest on this new debt will just about match the total of the debt itself. This seems to be approaching a parabolic point where there won't be enough money to pay interest on the debt much less have money left to borrow as principle.
Quote from number22:
Base on all these debts, i am surprised, there are still people willingly lend to US government.![]()