Bill Gross, co-founder of PIMCO, the world's largest bond fund and an expert in matters of debt, wrote in 2006, the way a reserve currency nation [such as the US] gets out from under the burden of excessive liabilities is to inflate, devalue, and tax.
Inflation destroys the value/cost of liabilities by eroding the value of money. Debts are paid back with inflated currencies, a process which benefits the debtor and injures the creditor. This is why reserve currency nations usually inflate their way out of debt by printing what they owe.
Devaluation is another option afforded reserve currency nations. By devaluing the value of their currency, the value of what they owe falls relative to other currencies. Again, the benefit is to the debtor at the expense of the creditor.
Debt is crippling the US. There is no way to repay what we owe. Or is there? Desperate for solutions, what choice(s) will the Fed make?Taxation is another option but is no longer available to the US, as its liabilities are now too high.
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