A remarkable quote from last time and it has so much to do with todays stock market volatility and the coronavirus all working at the same time and showing what compound interest is all about or what exponential. Algorithmic expediency is up yet stacey whats up max were thinking exponentially in this episode a kaiser report during the exponential spread of the pandemic coronavirus were looking at the 2nd half of the chessboard as it is called and i want might want to add that today is my birthday so turning one year older in the midst of exponential pandemic which is hitting the mortality rates go exponential as you get older is not fun to turn a year older in the middle of a pandemic but before we get into the exponential growth of the pandemic lets look at the results of the exponential growth in debt over the past few decades chis report of course has been reporting on this non stop for the past 10 years and i want to look at these 2 charge is the 30 year treasury and the price of o
Who are representing his interests. And paying to die germanys Constitutional Court repealed a 5 year old ban on assisted Suicide Services sparking fears of an exploitative trade in. Watching the weekly here on our t. V. A recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thanks for joining us this hour. There are fears of a new migrant crisis with almost 50000. 00 people crossing into europe in a day thats up for turkey open its borders and affectively tore up an agreement with brussels under which it took charge of millions of Asylum Seekers in return for Financial Aid on the other side of the border greek police greeted the newcomers with tear gas. But it. Was. It all follows a flare up in tensions in syrias last remaining terrorist stronghold it led province turkey threatened to launch a full scale military operation there after dozens of its troops were killed in a syrian air strike that was targeted hottest the hostilities have all but ruined turkeys deescalation agreement with r
A huge weight of growth that simply cant be sustained indefinitely and thats whether by the students themselves coming on board well by the windows its a huge increase in the private debt load on the economy and its falling on the people who earn the least money and its setting them up for being able to participate in the rest of the economy life which is also driven by did so i think is one form of it is going to basically a. Student debt is going to make it impossible to keep boosting Household Debt so the Financial Sector is eating itself im so old i remember the 2008 financial crisis and if you recall the sub prime debt bubble up and we have this global meltdown the student debt is already bigger than the subprime debt bubble. That was about an on trillion dollars when you look at it went from 6 to non trillion between about 22000. 00 and fog so were not talking the same sky loving christian debt were talking they did go on turning in income and then when they graduate they grudge.
Owed to the government so that means that the government could wipe out all the student debt and it wouldnt hurt any creditor at all it could be wiped out without any disruption of the economy and in fact unless its wiped out the economy will be distorted because as steve cain just said if you have to pay a lot of money in student debt you cant afford to get a Bank Mortgage to buy a house of your own and theyre going to end up living with your parents you know awol dr Michael Hudson here according to moodys erasing student debt would be a small stimulus but would it create moral hazard moral however or has it but i wouldnt know what is the morrow if he had worked the moral hazard is if the rich families that can afford to send their kids to School Without an education would no longer be able to lord it over the families that are driven into poverty by student debt. The moral hazard is that there wouldnt be a polarizing economy between an oligarchy at the top and a democracy at the bott
63000000000. 00 in just 2005 joining us to discuss this dr Michael Hudson professor steve kean and randy roller professor steve keen of course you talk a lot about debt and in fact increase the rate of increase of debt what do you think of that number 363000000000. 00 in outstanding Student Loans in 20051. 6 trillion today doubling every 2 years which is a huge right of growth that simply cant be sustained indefinitely and thats whether by the students themselves coming on board well by the windows its a huge increase in the private debt load on the economy and its falling on the people who are in the least money and its setting them out for being on a able to participate in the rest of the economy life which is also driven by did so i think is one form of it is going to basically a. Student debt is going to make it impossible to keep posting Household Debt so the Financial Sector is eating itself im so old i remember the 2008 fine. Cry out and if you recall the sub prime debt bubble u