Anyone want to make a bet on when US goes bankrupt? (Fearless Blue)

You can say that again!

I have the idea this thread started shortly after I joined.

America is getting better and 2012 is in the past so no rwecdhfejasx rewhdc erhws

Prophecy: I'll bet the United States can support several times it's GDP in debt. Once the creditors start calling, we'll ignore them for several decades saying that we can't pay right now but if they don't want a world financial collapse, they better wait. After waiting and the debt climbing higher, we'll just pretend we never borrowed the money and stick our middle finger at China... probably will result in some kind of world financial collapse, but it'll recover somehow.

So no, the US will never go bankrupt. We'll rewrite history so that we never borrowed the money.

No you wont, for I shall be here to remind you.

The depletion of cheap and easy to extract carbon based energy will cause international markets to contract enormously because of sharply escalating transaction costs. In effect, this will cause a global jubilee that cancels all debts.

The sooner the better, as the preservation of a livable climate absolutely depends on developing human-scale localized economies.

Like virtually every other animal, we'll probably exhaust our limited resources to the stage where a catastrophic population drop is inevitable, rather than prudently adapt our lifestyles to the changing reality.

Google: "john calhoun rat city" for a preview of how human social interactions are likely to evolve once we're "over the hump" so to speak.

So the world is going to end? Good.

....Wait, the world can't end. I need to conquer it first.

The world ends for about 150,000 people every day.

.......Sometimes, you're scary when it comes to statistics.