Its happened before....in June 2009.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp...&oq=counterfeit+bon&pbx=1&fp=cf43155e95cc3965
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp...&oq=counterfeit+bon&pbx=1&fp=cf43155e95cc3965
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Why was this not posted in elitetrader earlier?
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But the most important question is nobody in the world has $2 Trillion. Only governments have multi-trillion dollars. So who will purchase $2 Trillion of USA bonds?
Big thanks. Everybody needed this information.Quote from peilthetraveler:
I already answered that. They likely were not going to sell them, but use them as colateral for loans and such. There are alot of complex financial transactions out there. For instance, they could be forming many corporations then listing assets as 1 billion using the t-bonds. Then having books audited by lowly paid CPAs who dont know about fake bonds, but just see the bonds and assume they are real, then the whole world thinks they have 1 billion in assets and they get loans for their projects and do this a couple of times with several corporations so they never have to put money down. If the project is profitable, the banks are never the wiser. Everyone gets paid and everyone wins. Thats just 1 example.