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Again, i will ask, Who is responsible for this? Is it the feds fault that the government over spends and borrows money? The fed has absolutely zero control over the amount the government spends per year.
When the fed jacked interest rates to 20% in the 80's, do you then credit the fed for the balanced budgets in the 90's? If the feds interest rates are responsible for spending, why dont the chinese rack up excessive credit?
I fully agree that the fed has crushed our dollar, but that is based on an idiotic thought process by them that if we kill the U.S.D. enough we can compete with the third world exports, this is bad policy, not a conspiracy.
Banks can give all the cheap credit they want, the bottom line is that no one besides the debtor can choose to borrow based on the feds rates, so it isnt some giant conspiracy by banks, that forces people to do this.
You're talking a lot of smack here.
Congress has total control over its budget. And the FED has total control over it's open market operations. Both are to blame by over-stepping their mandates and acting irresponsibly. The FED could just as easily refuse to monetize new treasuries as Congress could pass a balanced budget. But neither will.
You asked a simple question and I gave you a simple answer. As for the rest of it - conspiracies, declining dollar, FED rates dictating chinese consumption - I have no idea what you're talking about.
