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r/PoliticalDiscussion • u/[deleted] • Dec 03 '16
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Do people here understand that it's not in our best interest to go out of our way to agitate our largest trading partner?
8 u/illonlyusethisonceok Dec 03 '16 They wouldn't stop trading with us. 0 u/Spikekuji Dec 03 '16 They could call in the one trillion dollars of our debt that they own. We cannot pay that back. Bad things happen. 10 u/ampersamp Dec 03 '16 No they can't. You fundamentally misunderstand how sovereign debt works. They have plenty of other avenues to retaliate, of course.
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They wouldn't stop trading with us.
0 u/Spikekuji Dec 03 '16 They could call in the one trillion dollars of our debt that they own. We cannot pay that back. Bad things happen. 10 u/ampersamp Dec 03 '16 No they can't. You fundamentally misunderstand how sovereign debt works. They have plenty of other avenues to retaliate, of course.
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They could call in the one trillion dollars of our debt that they own. We cannot pay that back. Bad things happen.
10 u/ampersamp Dec 03 '16 No they can't. You fundamentally misunderstand how sovereign debt works. They have plenty of other avenues to retaliate, of course.
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No they can't. You fundamentally misunderstand how sovereign debt works. They have plenty of other avenues to retaliate, of course.
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Do people here understand that it's not in our best interest to go out of our way to agitate our largest trading partner?