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Listener Mail: Fake Towns, Foster Care and: What the heck is the national debt?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Why Would You Buy a Bond?

Inflation goes up at a predictable rate over time, so why would you buy this kind of bond? It's because you are guaranteed to get that interest. The thing is, if like meoin mat 20 dollars, or knoll needing to pay the electricity bill, we don't get to print our own money,. Other than binbucks, which are still, you know, kind of tha newer bit coin. So most of this stuff being called national debt is owed to the us Public and other branches of the us Government.

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