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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Fri Jan 13, 2017, 05:33 PM Jan 2017

Loans from China. Do I have this straight? [View all]

Loans have due dates so they can't be called before the maturity date. This means they can't dump their loans to us to hurt us. However they can sell the loans they currently own thus making it harder for us to sell new loans to finance our government.

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Loans from China. Do I have this straight? [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 OP

Do you have a link to this? It looks very interesting! angstlessk Jan 2017 #1

Somebody here explained it to me. I knew you can't call in a loan whenever you want. DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 #3

Think of it like a bond. Phoenix61 Jan 2017 #2

If they are base on Treasury Bills, Wellstone ruled Jan 2017 #4