"thunder" wrote in message
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On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:02:26 -0500, Eisboch wrote:


What happens if the USA just says, "No"?

Just curious.

It would be one hell of a crash, and 5-10 very rough years, but then...
We'd have to get our own house in order, as no other country would want
to finance our overspending ways. Personally, I don't think it would be
all bad, but there are a lot easier ways to get our house in order. It
would be playing with fire, and you never know how burned we would get.


There would be other international consequences also. It would affect the
totality of the world financial markets, and some countries would not
recover for decades. This alone could prevent our recovery in the time-frame
you mention.

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