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	Rising Treasury yields threaten recovery

JICWyllie

5-28-2009 5:34 AM

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1-bailouts, 1-policy, 1-recovery, 2-consequences, 2-risks, 3-forecast, 4-us

JICWyllie says:

Interpretation: The US Government is finding it harder to borrow money, so it needs to lend much more to itself using the increasingly impoverished US taxpayer as collatoral.

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