The Good News and 'Very Disturbing News' of Zero-Yield Treasuries

Obama's pork barrel spending plan is the single dumbest idea in human history, bar none. Who is he to spend my taxpayer money in a depression? Obama actually said that changing light bulbs in federal buildings will provide jobs. Pork barrel spending is always bad, especially when we are broke as a nation.

I think that is Mr. Hendry Paulson last moves in the Chess Board.a very good moves unconventional.......Is there any wrong with it......?.......

People are accually loaning the US government money at a negative interest rate. Am I the only one that finds this completely insane? Who, other than the FED, would do that?

What it really bodes is the abandonment of the big Mutual Fund Co.'s running from the market into Govt. Bonds with no yields instead of the volitile maket. God help the 401K's.

Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and he does hand out presents to all the stupid boys and girls. (In the form of bailout's and pork spending). But you have to know how to get a handout. First make a salary that is more than you deserve, then make big profits for your croonies, and when the money runs out, go ask S.C. for his money. He can always print more, because he doesn't live in the real world where we live...Merry Christmas Virgina, Merry Christmas!!

SORRY JOHNNY ONLY UNDERSTAND ENGLISH

every day brings a new challage a start for change starts in every ones mind.We produce the results we pre meditate on a daily basis each person need to dig deep and figure out what exatly they can live off.The promblem is the balance of rich and poor each company needs to look at thier bottom line to break even and offer what they can pay with the expected results, for example union worker getting 70 dollars a hour just to lose their pension and thier jobs cause thier not willing to work for a wage that will allow the company to keep them employed and still give them a job we are to about now and not about tomorrow wich is the key to are survival the day of huge profits are over figure what you can do to create a balance.Dont keep the same and burn though the money the goverment is giving you use it to succed not to stop the bleeding.Greed will pay you today but tommorow you will end in sorrow!

If everyone put both of their hands into their pockets and kept their mouths shut, "the market" wouldn't move! And, let me ask this question - Why doesn't the Treasury just print an extra trillion $ of money and supply IT to "the economy"? The U.S. dollar is already in the crapper and the continued bailouts of company after company ISN'T inflationary? Just who is kidding who here?

This guy is an outdated economist. Massive fiscal stimulus using borrowed money will actually make things much worse. Unfortunately, guys like this who call themselves economists have very little understanding of economics. They analyze things as though time is static because they do not have the intelligence to understand the dynamic nature of an economy.

Everyone wants to knock Obamas plans but where have all of Bushs big plans got us?

Well I think we can thanks the Bush administration for this ....sometimes I wonder if he is pro or against AMERICA. Actually I don`t wonder anymore ......

To financeupdate: Um, he's the president. At least at the end of his spending, we'll have roads and bridges and infrastructure. What did we get from the AIG bailout? The Citi bailout?

Beetle and friends.........madmilker needs your help.

These are the small developments that stay under the radar. Wrap your head around how insane this mess has become. There is nothing left.

hope for the best

To financeupdate: To answer your first quesstion: Obama is your president Second: did you question the republicans in the govt and Bush who have been bankrupting the country for the last 8 years..while consulting buddies of Cheney, Bush etc have been filling up their coffers with contracts in the US, Iraq etc. Where were you then - sleeping?

well, so what happens when the government can't pay these back, even at zero percent or less? i guess what I'm getting at is along wi9th the suffering that the 401k's and funds are going to endure from this withdrawing of capital, I think the biggest thing we are going to look at in the long run is serious inflation. we can't pay our foreign creditors, so how is the government going to come through on these treasuries after they spend it on more socialism...uh, i mean economic stimulus? print more money, I guess.

geee I'm trillions in debt so maybe I should spend more money. That makes sense. Does anyone in Congress and has Obama ever balanced a personal checkbook before? Has any of them ever paid their way or did their parents do it all for them?

Do this the next time people are around you talking about how "so and so's" economic plan is screwed. Ask them their credentials, what is their alternative, and why it's not being done if it's such an "obvious" great idea. Not defending the current market or any one side. But trust me, just whip these questions out to anyone, grab a camera, and watch them say stupid things.

8.4 trillion stolen in less than two months from the American people. This is the biggest scam in the history of the world. The Federal Reserve is a private bank, there is nothing federal about it