First if you have read english I've added anything I said I picked the chart from another forum. Secondly I didn't comment on "US debt to growth faster than the US gdp" at all I pointed that THE LAW OF ECONOMIC DOESN'T CHANGE AND THAT IT IS THE SAME SCAM THAN THE MISSISSIPI SCAM USED BY JOHN LAW WHEN HE FOUNDED THE CENTRAL BANK FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FRANCE THAT IS USED TODAY. The MISSISSIPI CORPORATION WAS ALSO PRIVATE AND SO WHAT ???
And you have at least two eminent economists from opposite side normally that agree : John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=glance&s=books
The Economics of Innocent Fraud
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Kenneth Galbraith has been at the center of the American economy since before the First World War. In this his new book, he offers a distillation of these years in both the public and the private sectors, the academy and the government, and explains where we are and how we got there. Galbraith argues that inherent in our economic system is a continuing divergence between reality and "conventional wisdom," or as he puts it self-serving belief and contrived nonsense, or "fraud."
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Milton Friedman, who is a Republican Economist, is saying the same thing:
Here's his interview at federal reserve of Mineapolis
http://minneapolisfed.org/pubs/region/92-06/int926.cfm
Friedman: One unsolved economic problem of the day is how to get rid of the Federal Reserve.
Quote from vak:
looking from what you just wrote there seems to be a great deal of confusion in your mind as to what exactly a debt is.
first i should note that it isn't a very bright idea to sum up private&public debt for any nation as you just did, for they have completely different legal status.
with this caveat in mind however it is obvious that there is nothing wrong with total US debt to growth faster than the US gdp (or the dow for that matter) over extended periods of time, for the simple accouting reasons that debt doesn't represent a claim on the gdp but instead on the source of gdp
for instance total us marketed debt (gov&private) currently stands (if memeory serves) at arround 400% of gdp
that would equate to somebody making $100 a year with just over $400 of debt -hardly a source of worry.
i sould also add that when refering to marketed debt the single most important figure isn't the sovability ratios per see (whish are to some exend a subjective measurment) but rather what yield creditors are demanding for the risk of landing you money,and from that point of view alone i can say that US total endebtness isn't anywhere near being worrying
hope that was clear