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Re: A hypothetical economics question...
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Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:08:29 GMT
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No way. I spent all my adult life avoiding debt (other than my mortgage -
and the rate I pay on that is *less* than I get on my savings). I don't see
why I should pay for others getting bank loans to play the stock market.
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> What would happen if all debts public and private were just plain
> cancelled as of, say, 1/1/2002? I choose an already-passed date so that
> there couldn't be a mad dash to accrue huge debt in hope that it would be
> eliminated. In all seroiusness, what would be the effects? Credit card
> companies, I suppose, would suffer mightily (though I've heard that the
> monthly point-of-purchase service charges are a greater revenue source than
> cardholder-finance-charges). Sallie, Fannie, and Ginnie Mae would likewise
> take quite a pinch of course. But after the dust settled, would we be
> better off or worse? I've read in unconfirmed sources that private consumer
> debt in the US approaches that Federal debt for sheer magnitude, but I can't
> confirm that figure.
I'm sure I read that US consumer debt > US consumer savings?
Scott A
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> For the moment, I'm not concerned about "the Fed can't interfere with
> private debt," since this is a theoretical question. I'm also aware that
> international debt would still need to be addressed, and that the debate
> over the appropriate as-of date would be phenomenal. Any thoughts?
>
> Dave!
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| (...) Quite recently, I saw a graph of the net private debt/savings in the US. Since the second world war, the average debt of US households had increased from roughly 0% of the household income to around 100% today. This means that on average, US (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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