| "We're clearly
on an imprudent and unsustainable fiscal path. Our current liabilities
and unfunded commitments as of the end of the last fiscal year amounted
to over $43 trillion, up to $13 trillion in one year alone."
- -David Walker, U.S. Comptroller General (April 11, 2005)- - |
| "America has no
better than a 10% chance of avoiding economic "Armageddon."
- -Stephen Roach, Chief Economist, Morgan Stanley, (Boston Herald, November 23, 2004) |
| "...the U.S. government is, indeed,
bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this
context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly
or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds..." - -Professor L. Kotlikoff, for the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. (July, 2006) |
| "There
are disturbing trends: huge imbalances, disequilibria, risks -- call them
what you will. Altogether the circumstances seem to me as dangerous and
intractable as any I can remember, and I can remember quite a lot. We're
borrowing so much from abroad that we're skating on thin ice. Can we correct
this problem without some kind of international financial crisis?"
Regarding the need for policies that reverse the triple deficit, "I
don't know whether the change will come with a bang or a whimper, whether
sooner or later. But as things stand, it is more likely than not that
it will be financial crises rather than policy foresight that will force
the change." - -Paul Volcker, Former Federal Reserve Chairman, (April 10, 2005) |
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