Thursday, March 29, 2007

Who's indebted to whom?

Sometimes the creditors become the debtors.

This week's This Modern World (note last frame).

When the bank loans you $10,000 you are indebted to them. When the bank loans you $10,000,000 they become indebted to you.

China may "own our ass" by buying up a lot of our treasury debt. But they certainly have an interest in our economy doing well so that we are able to make payments.

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