Originally Posted by thommy

AND such a depression is the one and only acceptable reason to rise debts and warm up the economy. but as soon this is done the goal should be to lower the depts.

germany with all it´s strong economy went through the same disaster and they spend billions in new debts to reactivate the markets and the economy.
and there is still a zero interest policy but germany is next to france, the netherlands and
a few other european countries one of this countries where the dept clock goes backward.

when the next crisis comes (and it will come) this countries are able to push money in their markets again. US will not be able to do that a few times more.