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Old 08-29-2011, 05:48 AM   #59
Griff
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Originally Posted by ZenGum View Post
The right hand column there is particularly interesting. Most of the debt is owed within the US, so if you try to "quantitatively ease" your way out of it (i.e. print money and devalue currency) you're mostly screwing yourselves.
The Chinese portion while an enormous amount of money doesn't seem as scarey as advertised when looked at in the totality of the debt.
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