/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>50824908
>13

>>19622383
The us military is too large relatively, and too ingrained in other countries for America to revert to regional power yet.

>>19622413
Well who knows, it certainly wont happen the way it did last time. It only happened last time because the ratings agencies were giving away AAA ratings like candy so all the funds were buying them based on the assumption that they were rock solid, especially since lots of it had real estate as the underlying asset which people thought was even more rock solid at the time.

Now the fed has basically said they will buy distressed assets at their book price meaning they are basically pretending that everything is worth what everyone thought it was when it was overpriced and the market was euphoric, if they continue this they are essentially giving people the signal to ignore risk since the fed will back them up no matter what, which will just lead to riskier and riskier investments, or they stop it and the game ends real quick. who knows.

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