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Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2016

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Re: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2016

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What happens when the US needs to start paying off the trillions in debt? I remember the last time things were good. It stopped being good quite rapidly. I don't know much about monetary and economic policy but I'm optimistically cautious. I can't imagine the US borrowing several trillion dollars to keep credit from freezing again.

Re: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2016

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I'm curious: is anyone at a point where they're pulling out of equities at all? I feel like things are getting a bit too good to be true in the markets.

The Shiller P/E ratio is at a 2nd-time high - the only other higher time being the dot-com boom and bust: multpl.com/shiller-pe/

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I'm curious: is anyone at a point where they're pulling out of equities at all? I feel like things are getting a bit too good to be true in the markets. The Shiller P/E ratio is at a 2nd-time high - the only other higher time being the dot-com boom and bust: multpl.com/shiller-pe/

Why would you. Everyone is so in the money already, who cares if you get a 10% down day when you're up 100% yoy? Put another way, everyone is playing with the houses money so why not risk it?

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What happens when the US needs to start paying off the trillions in debt? I remember the last time things were good. It stopped being good quite rapidly. I don't know much about monetary and economic policy but I'm optimistically cautious. I can't imagine the US borrowing several trillion dollars to keep credit from freezing again.

My understanding is that most US debt is held by US citizens or US organizations.

Re: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2016

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What happens when the US needs to start paying off the trillions in debt? I remember the last time things were good. It stopped being good quite rapidly. I don't know much about monetary and economic policy but I'm optimistically cautious. I can't imagine the US borrowing several trillion dollars to keep credit from freezing again.

We pay off our debt constantly.
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