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Congress spent these surpluses, and the U.S. Treasury issued the Social Security Trust Fund special bonds, which can be redeemed whenever the Social Security system has a current account deficit.
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As background, the EFSF is the special purpose vehicle which is to buy the bonds of Italy, Greece and other countries so that yields do not soar and thus default can be avoided.
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And because, unlike the previous ECB bond buying programme, the bonds that the central bank buys will not get special treatment in the event of any debt write-downs, as happened in Greece.
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But more important than fashion or sex, it's the emotional security that primarily comforts me inside these special bonds, especially during life's worst moments.
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The special tax increase will be used to repay these bonds.
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Oh wait, Lerach has an answer for that, too: The government will swap all those risky stocks for special inflation-protected Treasury bonds yielding 7% or 8%.
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Special Offer: Gary Shilling called the housing crash in 2006 and his readers have made a killing in bonds.
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