{"id":297618,"date":"2010-02-09T05:51:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T10:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/if-the-us-was-a-company-we-would-think-it-was-trash-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-09T05:51:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T10:51:10","slug":"faber-if-we-analyzed-the-u-s-as-a-company-it-would-be-a-distressed-piece-of-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/297618","title":{"rendered":"Faber: If We Analyzed The U.S. As A Company, It Would Be A Distressed Piece Of Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an interview with Bloomberg’s Margaret Brennan, Marc Faber hints that markets are improperly giving the U.S. government a free ride.<\/p>\n

That’s because if investors were to analyze the U.S. government as a company, they’d soon realize it is completely distressed. You might have suspected it as such, but here’s a gloomy reminder from the man who sells the Gloom, Boom, and Doom report:<\/p>\n

“If you add all the unfunded liability’s the US has in terms of future liability’s arriving from medicare, medicaid and social security, then obviously if the US was a corporation it wouldn’t be a triple A, but it would have funds that are junks rated.
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