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Trump threatens to accidentally crash economy

#1 Post by Bob78164 » Sat May 07, 2016 7:52 pm

On CNBC today, Trump suggested that he would ask holders of U.S. sovereign debt to accept haircuts. The technical term for this is defaulting on debts backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.

It's unconstitutional. It's also a quick way to cash the world economy. U.S. sovereign debt is the world's safest investment. The entire global financial system is based on this truism. A default would upend the very foundations of the global financial system. --Bob
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Re: Trump threatens to accidentally crash economy

#2 Post by President Chump » Sat May 07, 2016 8:33 pm

This is a foreclosure notice to everyone on Planet Earth, you have 30 days to vacate the premises.

This is gonna be YUGE!

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Re: Trump threatens to accidentally crash economy

#3 Post by silverscreenselect » Sat May 07, 2016 10:05 pm

Bob78164 wrote:On CNBC today, Trump suggested that he would ask holders of U.S. sovereign debt to accept haircuts. The technical term for this is defaulting on debts backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.

It's unconstitutional. It's also a quick way to cash the world economy. U.S. sovereign debt is the world's safest investment. The entire global financial system is based on this truism. A default would upend the very foundations of the global financial system. --Bob
Bob, you've got your facts a bit wrong here.

What he said was that he would ask them to take part of their debt in Trump steaks. China stands to get about a billion Trump steaks over the course of his presidency.
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