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<p>[QUOTE="Danjohnson, post: 2468172, member: 80228"]The debt doesn't have to be paid off, in fact, it can't be. Our money has evolved over the past century into pure debt/credit... Our money is debt. If it were to all be paid off, we would have no money. Here's a great and I think accurate quote: </p><p><br /></p><p>"There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." <b>- Ludwig von Mises</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>The thing is no one knows when the collapse might come? Being as the dollar is the reserve currency for the rest of the world, it could go on a long time. South America, the EU, Japan, China will go first which seems to be happening but only time will tell when this credit bubble pops. Don't want to be holding paper when that happens.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Danjohnson, post: 2468172, member: 80228"]The debt doesn't have to be paid off, in fact, it can't be. Our money has evolved over the past century into pure debt/credit... Our money is debt. If it were to all be paid off, we would have no money. Here's a great and I think accurate quote: "There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as a result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." [B]- Ludwig von Mises [/B] The thing is no one knows when the collapse might come? Being as the dollar is the reserve currency for the rest of the world, it could go on a long time. South America, the EU, Japan, China will go first which seems to be happening but only time will tell when this credit bubble pops. Don't want to be holding paper when that happens.[/QUOTE]
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