Greenspan Says U.S. May Soon Reach Borrowing Limit - Bloomberg

Greenspan Says U.S. May Soon Reach Borrowing Limit - Bloomberg
“Perceptions of a large U.S. borrowing capacity are misleading,” and current long-term bond yields are masking America’s debt challenge, Greenspan wrote in an opinion piece posted on the Wall Street Journal’s website. “Long-term rate increases can emerge with unexpected suddenness,” such as the 4 percentage point surge over four months in 1979-80, he said.
Greenspan rebutted “misplaced” concern that reducing the deficit would put the economic recovery in danger, entering a debate among global policy makers about how quickly to exit from stimulus measures adopted during the financial crisis. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said this month that while fiscal tightening is needed over the “medium term,” governments must reinforce the recovery in private demand.
“The United States, and most of the rest of the developed world, is in need of a tectonic shift in fiscal policy,” said Greenspan, 84, who served at the Fed’s helm from 1987 to 2006. “Incremental change will not be adequate.”

And yet the fans of Keynesian Economics still try to borrow their way out of debt. Thomas Jefferson was right on target when he said "you cannot borrow to prosperity". The Austrian School is still right and if we had followed it's teaching and methodology, we would not be at the precipice staring into the black hole of depression to come.