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FT.com / Global Economy - Global Insight: Localisation back in fashion
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In some offices in the US Treasury, there are framed posters that exhort the country’s population to buy American government bonds as part of their patriotic duty. The images date back to the 1940s when the US government was worried about how to plug the yawning funding gap created by the second ...

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FT Alphaville — Comment, analysis and other offerings from Monday’s FT, Gillian Tett: Forget globalisation - localisation is back in fashion In some offices in the US Treasury, there are framed posters exhorting the country’s population to buy US government bonds as part of their patriotic duty. The patriotic theme may become relevant today; in coming years, western governments are set to issue a tsunami of government debt and officials are now wondering whether it’s time to launch a quasi-patriotic debt-buying campaign. ...

Secretary Geithner’s China Strategy: A Viewer’s Guide
The Baseline Scenario — ... Treasury’s concern is not really the value of the dollar – particularly as they would like a bit of inflation at this point; again, if it’s China’s fault that the real value of our debts falls, that might play (or spin) well in Peoria.  Instead, Treasury’s concern is the large amount of debt that they/we are trying to issue. ...

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