<div dir="auto">It's not companies. They've been happy to take advantage of cheap loans:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/us-corporate-debt-10-trillion-record-percentage-economy-expert-warnings-2019-12-1028731031">https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/us-corporate-debt-10-trillion-record-percentage-economy-expert-warnings-2019-12-1028731031</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As an aside, and in the interest of full disclosure, I put zero stock in Krugman and think he's a partisan hack. He lost his way a very long time ago regardless of his prize. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 9:34 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-5105959512912173489WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Who is doing this “excess saving”? Rich people? Companies? Governments clearly aren’t, because, you know, deficits.<br><br>SR Ballard<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Keith Veronese via extropy-chat<b><u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] A world drowning in excess savings<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…I won't rest until Dave Ramsey is in jail for this. <u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ramsey has done untold damage! He is the one who has been encouraging young couples to act with fiscal responsibly. His treacherous un-American tagline: The Dave Ramsey Show, where cash is king, debt is dumb and the paid off mortgage is the new BMW as the status symbol of choice!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Heh. That debt-free scream stuff hasta go too. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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