Let He Who Is Without National Debt Sin Cast the First Stone

• By Stan Collender
• Roll Call Contributing Writer
• June 16, 2009, Midnight

A small part of me is glad that bond market vigilantes are focused on the federal budget, the deficit and the national debt. Not caring about the amount that the government is borrowing would make bond traders far too much like the mortgage market that was willing to look the other way as no-doc, ninja (no income, no job or assets) and payment-option adjustable rate mortgage loans helped lead to the economic problems that we’re suffering through today.