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Thursday, January 2, 2020
Laurence Kotlikoff - Holding U.S. Treasurys? Beware: Uncle Sam Can't Account For $21 Trillion
The biggest welfare queen of them all.
Dave Lindorff dug into the issue, recently publishing the article “Exclusive: The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed” in The Nation. Based on a series of interviews with current and former government officials, Lindorff concluded that Pentagon accounting is “phony”, composed of made up numbers designed to obfuscate and thus propelling “US military spending higher year after year”.
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Laurence Kotlikoff - Holding U.S. Treasurys? Beware: Uncle Sam Can't Account For $21 Trillion
Yo longer dated bonds are up over 1% today....
ReplyDeleteUp another 1% today....
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