26-02-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com

How Can Bernie Sanders Pay for Spending? Easily, Say Treasury Markets

(Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders is pledging to spend big and fund it all with new taxes, drawing flak from rivals and analysts who say his budget numbers don’t add up.But bond investors say they don’t really need to. And more and more economists are inclined to agree.It’s never been cheaper for the U.S. government to borrow money. In the past few days, as Sanders fended off the “how will you pay for it” questions about his plans fo
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