Journal KontinMonet's Journal: Thank you GW!
With its rising budget deficit and ballooning trade imbalance, the United States is running up a foreign debt of such record-breaking proportions that it threatens the financial stability of the global economy, according to a report made public January by the International Monetary Fund.
In nearly 60 pages of carefully worded analysis, the report sounded a loud alarm about the shaky fiscal foundation of the United States, questioning the wisdom of the Bush administration's tax cuts and warning that large budget deficits posed "significant risks" not just for the United States but for the rest of the world.
The report warned that the net financial obligations of the United States to the rest of the world could equal 40 percent of its total economy within a few years -- "an unprecedented level of external debt for a large industrial country" that it said could play havoc with the value of the dollar and international exchange rates.
The dangers, according to the report, are that the United States' voracious appetite for borrowing could push up global interest rates and thus slow down global investment and economic growth.
Your billionaire buddies might be ok Bubya, but the rest of the world can go hang...
IMF Jan 2004
In nearly 60 pages of carefully worded analysis, the report sounded a loud alarm about the shaky fiscal foundation of the United States, questioning the wisdom of the Bush administration's tax cuts and warning that large budget deficits posed "significant risks" not just for the United States but for the rest of the world.
The report warned that the net financial obligations of the United States to the rest of the world could equal 40 percent of its total economy within a few years -- "an unprecedented level of external debt for a large industrial country" that it said could play havoc with the value of the dollar and international exchange rates.
The dangers, according to the report, are that the United States' voracious appetite for borrowing could push up global interest rates and thus slow down global investment and economic growth.
Your billionaire buddies might be ok Bubya, but the rest of the world can go hang...
IMF Jan 2004