The U.S. Federal government has been running deficits in the hundreds of billion

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The U.S. Federal government has been running deficits in the hundreds of billions of dollars which means that the U.S. Treasury is issuing hundreds of billions of dollars in new Treasury securities. If this is all you consider, what are the consequences for interest rates, spending financed by private borrowing, the money supply, the bond supply and inflation from this action alone? While the U.S. has been running these massive deficits, what has been true about interest rates? How do you explain this contradiction in interest rate effects and what are the big concerns going forward?

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Intertemporal choice is the study of the relative value people assign to two or more payoffs at different points in time. Most choices require decision-makers to trade-off costs and benefits at different points in time. These decisions may be about savings, work effort, education, nutrition, exercise, health care and so forth.

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