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A US debt default could spark mass unemployment, payment failures, and catastrophe that would raise interest rates 'into perpetuity,' Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warns
Yahoo! Finance ^ | 04/26/2023 | Jennifer Sor

Posted on 04/26/2023 11:23:14 AM PDT by millenial4freedom

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To: C210N
We've ONLY paid interest on it since the beginning, not a plug nickel ever paid in principal...

Andrew Jackson retired the national debt in order to put an end to our second central bank.

41 posted on 04/26/2023 12:55:37 PM PDT by Publius
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That’s what will eventually happen.

Let hyperinflation kick in. Pay all debt off to zero with dollars that are completely worthless. Then institute a new currency. Voila, no indebtedness!

And let the cycle begin again.


42 posted on 04/26/2023 1:16:47 PM PDT by TheConservator (Beware the tyranny of the woke mob. There has never been a greater threat to liberty.)
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To: millenial4freedom

So if it’s so bad, swallow your pride and work out a deal with the Republicans, so as to avoid it.


43 posted on 04/26/2023 2:02:57 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. )
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To: millenial4freedom

“mass layoffs of government officials”?

Sounds like a wonderful idea!


44 posted on 04/26/2023 2:13:26 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: millenial4freedom

Ph please! Janet has been wrong about everything to date.


45 posted on 04/26/2023 2:16:50 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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