New rules– No government subsidization of private debt, and no borrowing at all by government: I saw your internet storefront; business must be brisk. Yes, I’m going to need a loan to help expand. I stopped by a branch of the Fifth Second, but of course, it’s no longer a bank, since there are no banks other then the government, all-electronic bank. The Fifth Second is willing to loan me money, but now that money will be coming out of their private funds rather than out of depositor’s funds. Why don’t you just use one of those new internet sites, where they match up savers and borrowers? There’s a huge influx of savers, willing to lend out money, since deposits at the government bank don’t earn any interest. The small, riskier loans are pooled, to reduce risk, but with so many savers throwing money into these loans chasing yield, I wonder if we’ll see another bubble, like what we saw with housing and college tuition loans. But there’s a difference. Weren’t the housing and college tuition loans insured by the government? Yes, now there is no government interference and the private markets will very quickly set proper rates. I don’t think we’ve ever seen purely market determined interest rates before. Now, there will never again be any federal or municipal debt to crowd out the credit markets. And the Fed, together with its interest rate manipulations, are gone forever! Wasn’t the sheer size of government debt considered the largest bubble in history? That’s what happens …