how to react to government borrowing billions?
pfedor: I don't have any advice specific to the situation described, but I'll make one general statement: you should not adjust your investments in any way based on news about recent political and economic events.  You learned that the government is going to issue some new bonds and whatever, but so has everyone else.  There are legions of highly paid PhDs whose full time job is to invest money for some pension funds and the like.  Whatever action there might have been to take based on the new information, they have already thought it through and acted on it, and the price of any security you could sell or purchase has been adjusted accordingly.  What's left is random noise.There may be people here or elsewhere who will tell you about sure-fire ways of making money off of the fact that the government goes into debt, by shorting stocks or buying gold or trading foreign currencies or what not.  I suggest you disregard them.  If they were really this smart, why would they share such valuable insights with anyone on the Internet, instead of getting very rich?If your asset mix was good before the news arrived, then it is still good now and I would stick to it.  If you suspect it's not good, then by all means change it after consulting some good book about investing and sleeping on it.  In any case keep in mind that your future is hopefully a very long time and with that horizon in mind you should plan your investments.  Good luck.