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Bond Prices and Out of Control Spending

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For those of you not to familiar with the financial world of bonds, here is an interesting blog from our favorite financial blogger, Karl Denninger.

Why should this concern you? Bond prices set the rates on your house mortage (along with its value), car payments, student loans, earned interest in your bank account, and your future tax liabilities – this is because a huge percentage of your taxes go to pay off government over-spending (a.k.a. the National Debt).

Essentially, the more fiscally irresponsible Congress is now, the more you can expect to pay in taxes!

Unconscionablie Debt

Alison Fraser, a federal spending analyst at the Heritage Foundation, discusses the status of Social Security and Medicare in advance of the trustees for the two programs releasing annual reports on Monday. The bottom line, Fraser said, is that the programs are creating an unconscionable debt for future generations of America.

Storms on the Horizon – Unfunded Liabilities Unfunded Liabilites: $99,200,000,000,000

Richard W. Fisher, current president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, speaks on the current liabilities facing future generations with regards to entitlement benefits. He does not waste time in laying out the point:

I want to speak to you tonight about an economic problem that we must soon confront or else risk losing our primacy as the world

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