U.S. Government’s Tangible Assets are Historically Small Relative the Size of the Economy [OC]

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  2. Yes and that’s all well and good.

    And the government employee per capita is also either flat or down.

    But have we considered that billionaires want it all?

  3. Non-financial assets are structures and equipment. But “tangible” assets would include things like cash on hand – so this chart would be missing the amount of cash that’s being held by the federal government, through things like deposits, gold, or just holding foreign currency

  4. So if we want to make America great again, the data seems to show that the government should own more? Got it.

  6. Now let’s see the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet

  7. Is this graph basically the bookvalue of those carriergroups they build during/after WW2 ?

  8. And the reason they call it “non-financial assets” is because if the Fed (aka strong, creditworthy central gov’mint) hadn’t stepped in to save the auto industry, QE1, QE2, pump and print the money, bail out banks, bail out insurance companies, backstop the collapse of USA’s entire financial system in 06-08 we’d all be flipping burgers and nobody would even know what a credit default swap even was.

  9. Is this caused by the wealthiest 1% hoarding all of the wealth in the private sector?

  10. Ahhhhh…is that because the economy has grown, therefore a static amount of Govt assets have a reduced % of the overall economy? Nothing necessarily nefarious or interesting in this, is there?

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