"While Obama may or may not be on the way to winning his reelection, courtesy
of a GOP field that is, to say the least, limited, and where the only worthy
candidate is more ostracized by the right than even anyone on
the left, the bottom line is that whoever wins the presidency, it will matter
precisely didley squat. As the US debt clock shows, fast forwarding 4
years, or to February 2016, when the next presidential race will be in its final
stretch, America will have $24.1 trillion in debt, about $9 trillion
more than it does, now on $17.4 trillion in GDP, for a gross debt to GDP ratio
of 138.9% (and Apple's $1 trillion market cap will account for 150% of
the Nasdaq... just as IBM is 125% of the DJIA). Needless to say, it will be long
past game over at that point confirming that the current presidential race, with
its exciting tangential detours into female fertility, moon bases, LBO IRR
maximization courtesy of cost-cutting, is completely and utterly meaningless.
Also, keep in mind, "at current rates" for an endspiel that has now entered the
exponential phase in virtually every category, is to say the least, optimistic.
Yes, interest rates may be negative in 2016, but that means that the liquidity
trap endgame has not only begun, but is well on its way to ending, and
mercifully putting an end to this whole Keynesian "sustainability" charade.
Remember: Japan's debt-deflation lasted for 30 years only thanks to new pockets
of incremental global leverage and inflation: China and the PIIGS. This time,
absent the levering of the entire continent of Africa, there is noone who can
take the releverage baton and run. Which means the only "buyers" will be the
central banks. At least back in the day, Weimar just one nation. This time, it
will be the "Weimar World."
at http://www.zerohedge.com/news/time-next-us-presidential-campaign-241-trillion-debt-1389-debtgdp
at http://www.zerohedge.com/news/time-next-us-presidential-campaign-241-trillion-debt-1389-debtgdp
