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Economy => Economics => Topic started by: johnyj on March 03, 2013, 02:20:35 AM



Title: Druckenmiller Sees Storm Worse Than ’08 as Seniors Steal
Post by: johnyj on March 03, 2013, 02:20:35 AM
Stan Druckenmiller, one of the best- performing hedge fund managers of the past three decades, has a warning for the youth of America: Don’t let your grandparents steal your money.

Druckenmiller, 59, said the mushrooming costs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, with unfunded liabilities as high as $211 trillion, will bankrupt the nation’s youth and pose a much greater danger than the country’s $16 trillion of debt currently being debated in Congress.

“While everybody is focusing on the here and now, there’s a much, much bigger storm that’s about to hit,” Druckenmiller said in an hour-long interview with Stephanie Ruhle on Bloomberg Television’s Market Makers. “I am not against seniors. What I am against is current seniors stealing from future seniors.”

Druckenmiller said unsustainable spending will eventually result in a crisis worse than the financial meltdown of 2008, when $29 trillion was erased from global equity markets. What’s particularly troubling, he said, is that government expenditures related to programs for the elderly rocketed in the past two decades, even before the first baby boomers, those born in 1946, started turning 65.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-01/druckenmiller-sees-storm-worse-than-08-as-seniors-bankrupt-kids.html (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-01/druckenmiller-sees-storm-worse-than-08-as-seniors-bankrupt-kids.html)


Title: Re: Druckenmiller Sees Storm Worse Than ’08 as Seniors Steal
Post by: johnyj on March 03, 2013, 02:25:57 AM
Bitcoin is not perfect, but at least it is based on some honest computation work, but USD is purely based on debt, and now that debt has fallen on the next generation even before they get a work  ::)


Title: Re: Druckenmiller Sees Storm Worse Than ’08 as Seniors Steal
Post by: Lethn on March 03, 2013, 06:14:23 AM
Sounds about right, good thing I'm holding Bitcoin, now I just need to get some gold and silver :D


Title: Re: Druckenmiller Sees Storm Worse Than ’08 as Seniors Steal
Post by: Bit_Happy on March 03, 2013, 08:28:15 AM
Seniors paid in and their money was stolen.