“Seriously, how long will it be before they start seizing private pensions, IRAs, etc.?”
Guest Post: Game Theory And The Unfixable Fiscal Situation
Simon Black
ZeroHedge.com
01/02/2013
The recent fiscal cliff negotiations were almost a textbook case of the game theory’s Prisoner’s Dilemma… resulting in the same sub-optimal outcome. All the posturing and political strutting were more about trying to obtain personal advantage over the other players, not actually fixing anything. The fiscal cliff, in fact, stopped being about the US economy a long, long time ago. The uncomfortable truth that nobody in officialdom wants to admit (save outgoing Congressman Ron Paul) is that the fiscal situation is unfixable. Meanwhile, the debt ceiling has already been breached, and the Obama administration is scurrying to seize federal pensions as a temporary fix. Seriously, how long will it be before they start seizing private pensions, IRAs, etc.? How long before mutual funds and banks are required to hold a percentage of their assets in the ‘safety and security’ of US Treasuries? How long until everyone is involuntarily financing Uncle Sam?
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