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Life After Debt, Part I - Bizarro World Debt Crisis

Life After Debt, Part I – Bizarro World Debt Crisis

By The Banker | Blog Posts

Join me, if you will, in examining a time capsule from November 2000.  A junior economist, burrowed deep in the cubicles of the US Treasury Department, wrote a never-published memo to his bosses about a major problem facing the financial markets titled, ‘Life After Debt.’  How would markets react to the imminent pay down of