Could We Be Near the Big Collapse?


	Could We Be Near the Big Collapse?

chestnut501

6-5-2009 11:39 PM

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chestnut501 says:

The U.S. Treasury must sell a record net $2 trillion in new debt in 2009 to fund a $1.8 trillion projected fiscal deficit, resulting from falling tax revenues, an economic stimulus package and sundry bank bailouts.

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