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Update: The Feds just raided hundreds of safety deposit boxes in the US. Probably a good time to move your gold to an offshore storage facility and start working on that second passport...

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"...At this point a 10% interest rate equals the entire US budget." This is one reason why the Fed is in the process of taking control of all interest rates. The Fed and the federal government regulators will simply decree that the interest rate is 2%. Problem solved.

I'm in the process of trying to learn to stop worrying and to love USSR-style government control of the economy and financial system, because that is now inevitable. The American people will never accept the kind of austerity necessary to pay the national debt. They will prefer to be told that the government is fixing all problems by taking control of everything. I.e. totalitarian rule.

There will be no final “crash”; there will be totalitarian rule. And our rulers will maintain a show of the system still being free market capitalism. Seriously, what else can possibly happen? (I have asked that question in the comments section of Financial Times and WSJ stories about the debt et al and no one has ever answered it. I don’t think there is an answer.)

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