Tag: Government debt
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Canada’s Bond Market Has a New Buyer: Hedge Funds With Borrowed Money
When “financial stability” starts sounding like a margin call There is a certain elegance to modern finance. Governments borrow more money, dealers run out of balance sheet, and hedge funds arrive to save the day — with leverage, repo financing, basis trades, and just enough opacity to make everyone at the central bank start speaking…
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American Debt…How Far Can We Go?
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. American’s deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt. ~ Barack Obama, March 16, 2006 The more things change, the more…