Here's the deal ...
Would it be asking too much to expect your post to make any kind of sense on this subject??
"businesses repay TARP"???:rofl: C-L-U-E-L-E-S-S :rofl:
I know it's hard for some of you here to put different things together.
1. Understand TARP funds are
not the only way the federal government funds private industry -- directly and indirectly -- not by a long-shot
2. The value of the dollar is dependent on the belief in the dollar, including the belief that loans will be repaid -- something that is starting to be seriously questioned as more and more countries see the debt the US federal government has been taking on
Regarding #1, the TARP funds are only equal to about 10% of the new, drastically increased, annual, federal budget. There greatly increased funds being spent by the federal government in both private and public now. That in turn has led to a re-establishment of prior cash flow that was largely private funded, only public now.
In other words, the federal government is subsidizing private industry, sometimes directly, outside of TARP funds. I know my financial and private industry clients are heavily reliant on government contracts right now.
Regarding #2, unemployment are yet to see their worst, and that's definitely going to happen next year. One way to deal with an overload of debt is to inflate the currency to make it cheaper to pay off. Sometimes this is quite forced, and it will kill even more of private industry.
In other words, we're definitely going to see a repeat of the '70s through early '80s in order to combat those combinational issues, only on a level worse than the '70s through early '80s. Considering we have limited industry compared to then, it's going to be something we've never seen.
Again, there are many factors and compound issues. But it's very naive to assume we're pulling out of this any time soon. Unlike the '80s, we have a massive amount of existing debt, and taking on more at an almost exponential rate is very questionable at this point.
I'm
not saying "Obama is fucking up." I'm saying Obama has increased the trend that has been a long-standing fuck-up since the '70s, made worse by each and every President. Our consumer-based, debt-driven economy is our own undoing. I honestly don't want to think about where it will go.
In fact, it's caused by people failing to see the big picture and pointing fingers, instead of realizing the root causes that
span decades. It was hardly Obama's doing, but the undoing that will happen during his administration and the finger pointing that will follow will just remind me why I rolled my eyes during W., Clinton and Bush Sr. as well.
If you don't want to believe me, fine. But it's clear the dollar is no longer the standard currency people will trust, and that has been an issue in the making for decades. And we'll definitely repeat it again until we start looking at the bigger pictures.
- First we ignored it during the .COM farce
- Then we ignored it during the real estate and commodities farce
- Now we're trying to backfill it with federal debt like in the '80s, only 10x worse
Because there's no safety net when the US government itself has to default on the terms of its loans.