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[PeaceWave]

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[chouchou]

1. Maybe the President should have bought and managed a Casino?

and then...ah...ah...never mind....

[Fozzledick]

2. How long before the international bond markets realize that "the full faith and credit of the U.S." no longer exists

and has been replaced with Donald Trump's insanity of the day?

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Now, that would cause a really bad day on the stock market

Or a few years, rather.

[marble falls]

4. Back when a million dollars was actually worth close to a million dollars, my uncle told me if you owed the bank ...

... a hundred thousand dollars, the bank owned you. If you owed the bank one million dollars, you owned the bank.

In the 90s when TACO was going to bring down his bank, the Clinton administration guaranteed that the Fed would cover another billion dollars in loans and save the bank and TACO. This was around the time that he tried to sue Merv Griffin about a resort trade they'd made and TACO lost money.

[rampartd]

5. as soon as he can blame a dem

or as soon as he sees a way to personally profit.

no reasonable person thinks the debt will ever be paid. that is not what it is for.