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Who’s Scoffing Now?

It’s kind of ironic, I find, that the very same people who are quickest to scoff when hearing the phrase “This time it’s different” – namely the professional investing class – apparently see nothing to worry about in the idea that the world’s largest debtor can run the world’s largest deficits… and do so at historically low interest rates.
To which I would comment, “Trust your eyes.” If it seems as though the situation is untenable, it very likely is. The only real question in my mind is, how long can this fiction persist? To that I don’t have an answer, but I suspect that when the truth of the situation is revealed – possibly by the roundabout path of seeing one or more of the large Asian economies come unglued – things will get far uglier, far faster, than most people suspect.

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