Quote from ByLoSellHi:
Anyone in debt, for whatever reason, is a slave, whether an individual, family, city, state, nation or globe.
Debt allows you to leverage yourself. Why would you want to keep 100% equity in your house if you could borrow the equity for 5% and make a guaranteed 7%?.
So, everyone who borrowed funds from Japan and invested it in higher yielding markets (carry trade) are slaves just because they have "debt?"
Not all debt is bad.