Comments on: What Assets Could the United States Sell?

By: Ross Markello

Ross Markello — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:10:35 +0000

As we did from 1942-45 the fed. govt. can print money to purchase goods and services from the private setor and sell on the world market to pay off debt. Our fixed assets must be at least $100 trillion, and liquid another $50 trillion..

By: How Much Does the United States Really Owe? « World Association of New Professionals

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:59:46 +0000

[...] assets. These numbers aren’t perfect–for example, they dramatically understate the value of the gold the U.S. owns and put no value on the government’s ability to tax–but they illustrate that what [...]

By: rudi pfeifer

rudi pfeifer — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:40:57 +0000

what assets/property does the U.S. government own in foreign countries.? I once read that if we sold the property we owned in Hong Kong that we could pay the national debt.

By: blue monkey

blue monkey — Sat, 08 May 2010 02:59:13 +0000

Greece and Spain won’t pay back. The only thing Germans can do is:
REPOSES 170 Leopard 2AEX Battle Tanks from Greece, and 190 Leopard 2A6E Battle Tanks from Spain.
U.S.A must REPOSES 170 F-16 Jet Fighters from Greece, … the rest is gone with the wind …forever …
Greece must stop paying lucrative pensions with borrowed money, reform the free health care system, and cut down, 4 times the military budged.

By: Is Someone Manipulating the Price of Gold?

Is Someone Manipulating the Price of Gold? — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:47:25 +0000

[...] in gold might want to consider, along with the prospect that the debt-strapped U.S. government may sell some of the more than $250 billion worth of gold (estimated) that it [...]

By: Blanca Perzanowski

Blanca Perzanowski — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:56:35 +0000

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By: Greece Starts Selling … But Not Corfu « Donald Marron

Greece Starts Selling … But Not Corfu « Donald Marron — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:00:35 +0000

[...] Donald Marron Greece is ready to start selling assets, according to the Wall Street Journal, but Corfu and the Parthenon are not on the auction block (no surprise there). Instead, the government figures that by selling [...]

By: Jane Quatam

Jane Quatam — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:03:41 +0000

Sell them our “goodwill” according to current accounting standards, its any number we want to make up. I say lets price it at infinity plus 10$, we’ll divvy it up into shares and sell it round the world, and we can issue more stock whenever we need more money. It would be a fine adjunct to the printing presses of the Federal Reserve. Another revenue stream that needs no underlying assets – a fiat stock. Let me know if you have any other economic conundrums that need solved.

By: Brooks

Brooks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:02:56 +0000

How ’bout potholes? Fedreral, state and local governments can sell our roads’ potholes like these guys http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124346509&ft=1&f=1006

Speaking of Lao-Tzu’s Tao Te Ching (from which you quoted that line the other day), considering potholes an asset reminds me of something from Chapter 11 (that chapter number being a funny coincidence) of that book:

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

By: LAD

LAD — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:32:58 +0000

If we sold Mt. Rushmore and Yosemite and regulated thier development they would be maintained better and would be a net revenue generator for the government rather than an expense.