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There are many interpretations of these data. This is not one of them. America will sacrifice its foreign lenders before it does its military.
The U.S. borrowed $50B a week for the past five months, the CBO says
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Re: The U.S. borrowed $50B a week for the past five months, the CBO says
#12Linkbait headline. Without context, these figures mean nothing. You can see the debt-to-GDP ratios here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDGDPA188S
The article has more details than just the headline. For example: > Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), said that interest payments on the debt are expected to exceed $1 trillion this year, and will surpass $2 trillion by 2036. That’s very concerning. There’s no plan to run balanced budgets and stop deficits. And no plan to reduce debt. And no plan on economic competit…
The plan is a smash and grab for whoever is smart enough to scam there way through it amd then probably default like every other empire
Re: The U.S. borrowed $50B a week for the past five months, the CBO says
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Am I supposed to take away from these plots that we are all good since it's been steadily above the prior record in 1940 since 2020? Or is everything okay since it was really going up and it did course correct to a bit more of a straight line recently? The article seems to be communicating that this rate of spending is not sustainable.
Japan debt/GDP is more than twice the US's. https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/11792/what-lev... Not to say that it's okay , and Japan's economy certainly has issues with stagnation due to the debt load, but it's also not a "we have imminent hyperinflation" kind of thing either. The concern with the past five months isn't so much the level of debt, it's the rate of change - we're increasing it faster than…
Is Japan still the largest creditor in the world???
Re: The U.S. borrowed $50B a week for the past five months, the CBO says
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Re: The U.S. borrowed $50B a week for the past five months, the CBO says
#15Linkbait headline. Without context, these figures mean nothing. You can see the debt-to-GDP ratios here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDGDPA188S
That looks pretty bad, and getting worse.
Re: The U.S. borrowed $50B a week for the past five months, the CBO says
#16Linkbait headline. Without context, these figures mean nothing. You can see the debt-to-GDP ratios here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDGDPA188S
The article literary addresses this:
> Economists aren’t necessarily worried by the total level of debt (in fact, government debt is a necessary foundation of global markets). Rather it’s the debt-to-GDP ratio, which measures a nation’s borrowing against its growth
Re: The U.S. borrowed $50B a week for the past five months, the CBO says
#17Re: The U.S. borrowed $50B a week for the past five months, the CBO says
#18Linkbait headline. Without context, these figures mean nothing. You can see the debt-to-GDP ratios here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDGDPA188S
The article has more details than just the headline. For example: > Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), said that interest payments on the debt are expected to exceed $1 trillion this year, and will surpass $2 trillion by 2036. That’s very concerning. There’s no plan to run balanced budgets and stop deficits. And no plan to reduce debt. And no plan on economic competit…
They can always at some point pull a modern day Nixon Shock and cancel everything. Make all that debt go poof.
Re: The U.S. borrowed $50B a week for the past five months, the CBO says
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Am I supposed to take away from these plots that we are all good since it's been steadily above the prior record in 1940 since 2020? Or is everything okay since it was really going up and it did course correct to a bit more of a straight line recently? The article seems to be communicating that this rate of spending is not sustainable.
Japan debt/GDP is more than twice the US's. https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/11792/what-lev... Not to say that it's okay , and Japan's economy certainly has issues with stagnation due to the debt load, but it's also not a "we have imminent hyperinflation" kind of thing either. The concern with the past five months isn't so much the level of debt, it's the rate of change - we're increasing it faster than…
> Japan debt/GDP is more than twice the US's.
Japan borrows on 0.75% interest rate compared to current US's 3.5%.
Re: The U.S. borrowed $50B a week for the past five months, the CBO says
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Japan debt/GDP is more than twice the US's. https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/11792/what-lev... Not to say that it's okay , and Japan's economy certainly has issues with stagnation due to the debt load, but it's also not a "we have imminent hyperinflation" kind of thing either. The concern with the past five months isn't so much the level of debt, it's the rate of change - we're increasing it faster than…
> Japan debt/GDP is more than twice the US's. Japan borrows on 0.75% interest rate compared to current US's 3.5%.
This is old information. Japan's borrowing costs have spiked and are ~2.18% as of this comment. Yields are surging due to their debt load (currently ~240% of GDP).
Citations:
https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/government-bond-yield
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/business/jgb-trade-excite...
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/26/japan-bond-market-dollar-ye...
https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/2026012067/japa...
https://robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/how-japan-can-escape-its...