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Our federal budget deficit is at a record high (excluding WWII)_________________________
The interest rates on our Treasury bills have never been lower. (Today we are below the previous 1940 lows)
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Two Questions.
1) Why is this?
2) If it was in their ideological interest, would right wing economists present this as definitive proof that deficits reduce interest rates? (That would be utterly false, of course, but the evidentiary case would be stronger than for most crazy claims they do make.)
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