Aussie Senator: U.S. In Similar Economic Position To Germany Before WWII
October 23rd, 2009
THE Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce is openly canvassing an economic upheaval that would dwarf the current global financial crisis, triggered by the US defaulting on its sovereign debt within the next few years.
Mark Davis
The Age
Friday, October 23, 2009
In unusually pessimistic comments for a senior political figure, Senator Joyce said the US Government was running such large deficits and building up so much debt that it was in a similar position to Iceland or Germany before World War II.
But Senator Joyce insisted yesterday that the dangers to the global economy from the run-up in US private and public sector debt were real and should be debated.
”It is the elephant in the room,” Senator Joyce told The Age. ”This is a huge risk that Australia faces. What is the game plan, what happens if it comes unstuck?
”Far from turning around the [George] Bush legacy of deficits and debt, [US president Barack] Obama has made it worse. It has got all the hallmarks of a financial collapse about to happen in America.”
Senator Joyce said investor concerns about the American Government’s ability to fund its deficits were already undermining the role of the US dollar in the international trading and financial system.
”The US dollar is almost becoming like junk bonds,” he said.
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October 25th, 2009 at 5:26 am
We are about to see the end of the US financial system with the obliteration of the derivatives and futures said to be in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. It was said not long ago by Lord Evelyn Rothschild that ‘people cannot continue to do what they want.There will be consequences.’ Don’t forget, this family is in charge.