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IMF predicts the Age of America is almost over…..

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Task Number One For The Next US President: Tell The Nation The “Age Of America Is Over”
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/25/2011 08:48 -0400

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After a weekend full of empty (or not) Chinese posturing, Marketwatch’s Brent Arends has an interesting tidbit to add to the China vs US debate. “The International Monetary Fund has just dropped a bombshell, and nobody noticed. For the first time, the international organization has set a date for the moment when the “Age of America” will end and the U.S. economy will be overtaken by that of China.” The year? 2016. So perhaps having a 5 year head start in selling the bonds of what will soon be even an official former superpower is not such a bad idea. “It provides a painful context for the budget wrangling taking place in Washington, D.C., right now. It raises enormous questions about what the international security system is going to look like in just a handful of years. And it casts a deepening cloud over both the U.S. dollar and the giant Treasury market, which have been propped up for decades by their privileged status as the liabilities of the world’s hegemonic power.” And here’s why pretty soon America may be left without presidential candidates: “According to the IMF forecast, whoever is elected U.S. president next year — Obama? Mitt Romney? Donald Trump? — will be the last to preside over the world’s largest economy.” Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/task-number-one-next-us-president-tell-nation-
age-america-over

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