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Old 10-04-2007, 03:30 AM
Bedreviter Bedreviter is offline
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Default Re: Why do governments borrow money?

The government sells bonds to whoever wants to buy them, and they need to get paid for the bonds. You can buy bonds, China probably have tons of them, so does lots of local and foreign governments, insurance companies, pension funds and so on. The banks who buys those bonds need to have the money to buy them, pretty sure they are not getting them without paying.
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