"Ultimately, what matters is: What do the people who are buying Treasury bills think?" the president told reporters this week, when discussing measures he could take to end the threat of a historic default on the nation's debt. Even with the U.S. budget deficit down by more than half since 2009 as a percentage of the economy, the Congressional Budget Office says the government this fiscal year will need to borrow an average of almost $11 billion each week.

"You mean to tell me that the success of the program and my re-election hinges on the Federal Reserve and a bunch of f------ bond traders?"

Clinton replied, according to "The Agenda," an account of his economic policy-making by journalist Bob Woodward. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-...040100464.html

Mayer Amschel Rothschild quote: Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.