Bill Gross: QE is like a 'Ponzi scheme'

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Pimco's Bill Gross, manager of the world's largest bond fund, says quantitative easing has called an end to the 30-year bull market in bonds and labels current monetary policy as a ‘Ponzi scheme'.

They say a country gets the politicians it deserves or perhaps it deserves the politicians it gets. Whatever the order, America is next in line, and as we go to the polls in a few short days it's incumbent upon a sleepy and befuddled electorate to at least ask ourselves, "What's going on here?" Democrat or Republican, Elephant or Donkey, nothing much ever seems to change. Each party has shown it can add hundreds of billions of dollars to the national debt with little to show for it or move our military from one country to the next chasing phantoms instead of focusing on more serious...

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