Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.
Just because someone will lend money to you doesn't mean you should borrow it.
Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
Investment bankers do much of their business underwriting government bonds, in the United States and abroad. Therefore, they have a vested interest in promoting deficits and in forcing taxpayers to redeem government debt.
From my experience, there are so many regulations for investing in the United States that they become an impediment, a barrier to investing.
It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.
Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
Subsidize... or lend.
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.