U.S. can avoid default by printing money

[psycopk]

 

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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump may be right his theory that the U.S. can avoid a default by just printing money but the results would be disastrous, leading experts say.

In an interview on CNN on Monday, Trump said the U.S. could never default on its debt because the U.S. prints the money.

“You never had to default because you print the money,” Trump said.

One observer said Trump was “out of his mind.”

“Sure if the U.S. needed to avoid default you can always print money, but what does this mean for the dollar, what does it mean for financial markets, what does it mean for inflation,” said Desmond Lachman, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, who is a former International Monetary Fund official who worked at on Wall Street at Salomon Smith Barney.

“It just seems cavalier. The consequences would be terrible” in part by sparking runaway inflation, he said. “If the U.S. isn’t serious about its budget and serious with its debt, we’re in for a lot of trouble,” he said.

Trump seems to be suggesting he would scrap all the economic lessons learned since Paul Volcker, the Federal Reserve chairman who defeated the great inflation of the 1970s and early 1980s, he said.

The inflation came from President Lyndon Johnson printing money to pay for the Vietnam War, Lachman said.

In the interview, Trump was pushing back on a New York Times report that he might be able to negotiate a partial repayment of national debt.

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Trump said he would not negotiate with creditors. Instead, he would buy back debt if interest rates went up.

Tom Simons, senior money-market economist at Jefferies, said this proposal also didn’t make economic sense because the U.S. would have to borrow at high interest rates to pay for the buybacks.

Buying back debt is a good strategy if the government is running a surplus and can retire the debt, Simons said.

[tom bhayya]

[Leonardo_Di_Carpio]

Pichi peon trump...

[ravee2k2]

gadedo vichala vidiga sesi maaku andariki job lu isthe baguntadi kada

[VizagRocks]

what? wasn't what he said right? US is already doing it.

who wrote this report? printing money doesn't cause inflation. lol.

[psycopk]

Just now, VizagRocks said:

what? wasn't what he said right? US is already doing it.

who wrote this report? printing money doesn't cause inflation. lol.

nice.. we need experts like you.. go fund trump

[tom bhayya]

2 minutes ago, VizagRocks said:

what? wasn't what he said right? US is already doing it.

who wrote this report? printing money doesn't cause inflation. lol.

[VizagRocks]

Just now, psycopk said:

nice.. we need experts like you.. go fund trump

printing money doesn't cause inflation. only excessive lending of that printed money does.

obviously when debt is to be serviced, most of that money goes to established funds, and not to general public. Inflation will not occur.

US problem is low taxes, less redistribution. Sanders is the only candidate willing to talk about it.

[VizagRocks]

okay. the title is misleading.

buying back debt is the stupidest idea yet by Trump.

[Maryadaramanna]

25 minutes ago, VizagRocks said:

printing money doesn't cause inflation. only excessive lending of that printed money does.

obviously when debt is to be serviced, most of that money goes to established funds, and not to general public. Inflation will not occur.

US problem is low taxes, less redistribution. Sanders is the only candidate willing to talk about it.

aa lekkana chinki galla daggara 12 or 15 Trillion dollars appu yenduko...print chesi 10ginchukunte ayipoyedi kada

[phatposts]

Exactly tuglaq paripalana laaga undi veedi thought!

[Spartan]

Please veedini President cheyandi.

[ParmQ]

Lol. . Veedu super ahe.

[VizagRocks]

4 hours ago, Maryadaramanna said:

aa lekkana chinki galla daggara 12 or 15 Trillion dollars appu yenduko...print chesi 10ginchukunte ayipoyedi kada

adhe cheppina ga. printing to service the debt is different from printing to buy it out. The latter is what stupids do.

[Peter123]

total us debt is 19 trill