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To: driftdiver

Is this like the housing crisis.....lending money to people who can’t/won’t pay it back.


7 posted on 05/09/2010 7:20:38 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: o-n-money; Orange1998
Is this like the housing crisis.....lending money to people who can’t/won’t pay it back.

This isn't an unsecured loan you know. We give them $$$ and they give the Fed the same value in Euros. When they give us the dollars back, they get back the Euros. In the meantime, we earn interest on the Euros.

So what's the problem?

52 posted on 05/10/2010 2:46:35 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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