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Roscoe Bartlett: “Projecting this out, we will buy and buy, and have a lesser appetite for borrowing from the public. Pigs may fly, too…”

On the recordMarch 12, 2003
Projecting this out, we will buy and buy, and have a lesser appetite for borrowing from the public. Pigs may fly, too, but I think that is about as likely as the Federal Government paying this debt.
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Roscoe Bartlett
Maryland

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Discussing government borrowing and debt management.

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