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US Debt Soars By $100 Billion On Last Day Of 2014, Hits Record $18.14 Trillion

[Jack Hydrazine]

How can they go any lower???

[usconservative]

This would particularly be the case if crude-oil prices keep falling to, say, $40 a barrel from their 2014 year-end level of about $55. This further drop from the 46% decline suffered by crude in 2014 would only accentuate deflationary forces he sees at work globally that continue to drop long-bond yields...

Here's the problem with this economists prediction:

Falling oil prices have the net effect of a HUGE TAX BREAK, far bigger than the Federal Government would provide.

Less $$ in the gas tank = more $$ in consumers pockets. What they'll do with that additional money remains to be seen, however typically that money is spent on other goods and services which spurs the economy.

It's fact that more $$ in people's pockets, the more the economy recovers. Happens every time.

[DaxtonBrown]

When are they going to admit that monetary manipulation doesn’t work AT ALL. Oh sure, you can goose some things short term, but the market must seek reality.

[Wuli]

Even lower interest rates will give continued false impression of an improved economy as the money-bubble created by super low rates will flow to equities and real estate, boosting their values even as the financial fundamentals (jobs and business revenue & profit margins) under them remain unchanged or get worse.