Saturday, November 13, 2010

Paying off your Visa with your MasterCard

For the lefty loony lurkers who think debt is a good thing and consider themselves the economic elites that have all the answers... 

you need to learn the difference between liquidity and solvency...




H/T to Green Mountains Homesteading for the above video

And from guest poster Dr. Robert Owens over at Lonely Conservative, A Principle for Peter in the 21st Century
The world is lining up to not buy our debt so we are buying it ourselves in a move we call by the innocuous acronym QE2, which is short for Quantitative Easing two.  More traditional, or verbally honest, economists are calling this what it is: monetizing our debt.  This is a move which has our creditors heading for the doors and our enemies smiling as poor old Uncle Sugar stands with his pockets turned inside out, a bewildered look on his face as he wonders, “Where did all flowers go?”  read it all