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America is shorting one of its best assets as the $38 trillion national debt runs out of control

There’s a 59% arbitrage opportunity hiding in plain sight and it has to do with college-educated women.

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'Immigrants are subsidizing the U.S. government': how the undocumented actually shrank the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 3 decades

Cato Institute ran the math and found that without immigrants' contributions, the national debt would be a third higher than today's $38 trillion.

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Trump thinks a weaker dollar is great, but the U.S. needs a stable currency as national debt heads toward $40 trillion, former Fed president says

"And when you have that much debt, I think stability of the currency probably trumps exports."

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$38 trillion national debt finds Democratic, Republican supermajority as watchdog sees ‘a major problem for America’s economic future’

Michael A. Peterson says the country is racing toward $40 trillion in debt.

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Jamie Dimon warns that the $38 trillion national debt is 'not sustainable' and it's one of two 'tectonic plates' that may crash in the near future

"It will not work eventually," the JPMorgan CEO told David Rubenstein in a Chamber of Commerce fireside chat. "I just don't know when that is."

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'Some form of crisis is almost inevitable': The $38 trillion national debt will soon be growing faster than the U.S. economy itself, watchdog warns

"The United States is deeply indebted, and its finances are on an unsustainable long-term trajectory," says the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

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Ken Griffin says America has been sent an ‘explicit warning’ from the bond market that it’s time to get the national debt in order

“I think there’s an explicit warning that if your fiscal house is not in order, the bond vigilantes can come out and retract their price,” Ken Griffin told an audience at Davos.

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Trump added $2.25 trillion to the national debt in his first year back in charge, watchdog says

The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonpartisan budget watchdog, ran the numbers exclusively for Fortune.

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Europe's Biggest Advantage in the Showdown Over Greenland? America's Huge Pile of Debt.

America's large and growing national debt is not just a budgetary liability, but increasingly a geopolitical one too.

Reason

I Asked ChatGPT If Billionaires Could Pay Off the US National Debt — and What It’d Mean for the Economy

Could the richest Americans simply write a check to erase the U.S. debt? I asked ChatGPT to play out this scenario to see what would happen.

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National debt is already killing the American Dream, says top economist—and it might push the U.S. into an outright depression

“There are fewer opportunities,” Kurt Couchman added. “The opportunities that are there aren’t paying as well. Productivity is being suppressed.”

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America’s $38 trillion national debt is so big just the interest will soon cost more than Medicare

The staggering math behind the rapid rise in interest due on our outsize debt.

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Jamie Dimon warns $38 trillion national debt is going to 'bite': 'You can't just keep borrowing money endlessly'

Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, echoed: "Despite being more than a quarter into [2026] our government is still not fully funded for the rest of the fiscal year, with another funding deadline around the corner in just over two weeks."

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Treasury spent $276 billion in interest on the national debt in the final three months of 2025, says the CBO—up $30 billion from a year prior

The costs were higher because of a larger budget burden, the CBO said, as well as "higher long‐term interest rates and an increase in the rate of inflation."

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Trump's $1.5 trillion military budget would add $5.8 trillion to the national debt, with interest, CRFB says

Meanwhile, the Peterson Foundation updated its projection: the U.S. would be spending more on defense than the next 35 countries combined.

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82% of voters want Congress to focus on the $38 trillion national debt, watchdog says: 'voters are understandably concerned'

The nonpartisan Peter G. Peterson Foundation finds widespread — and bipartisan — concern over the debt.

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Mark Cuban on the $38 trillion national debt and the absurdity of U.S. healthcare: we wouldn't pay for potato chips like this

"Can you imagine if a Pringles distributor paid full retail to Pringles and then sold to grocery stores for full retail, and then the grocery stores had to wait for a rebate?"

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Janet Yellen warns the $38 trillion national debt is nearing a red line economists have warned about for decades

Top economists fear the era of fiscal dominance is here, and we’ve abandoned the debt problem already.

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'Military adventures cost money': Economists' key concern about Trump's Venezuela action is how it weakens $38 trillion national debt picture

“What my concern about Venezuela is that…it’s just confirming that the United States isn’t a very reliable partner.”

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Mitt Romney says the U.S. is on a cliff—and taxing the rich is now necessary 'given the magnitude of our national debt'

Romney is worth an estimated $254 million, and was among Congress's wealthiest members.

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The $38 trillion national debt is to blame for over $1 trillion in annual interest payments from here on out, CRFB says

Welcome to "the new norm": interest payments over $1 trillion every year from here on out, to service the large and growing national debt.

Benzinga

Dave Ramsey Says Those Predicting The 'Economic End Of The World' Over National Debt 'Keep Being Wrong'

Dave Ramsey says he's tired of hearing the same doom-and-gloom predictions about the U.S. national debt and that people warning about an imminent collapse have been wrong for decades.

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Ray Dalio says ‘a little bit of everything’ is needed to prevent a debt crisis—but it won’t happen anyway

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio said averting the $38 trillion national debt crisis requires bipartisan support—which will never happen.

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Tariffs and the $38 trillion national debt: Kevin Hassett sees ‘big reductions’ in deficit while Scott Bessent sees a ‘shrinking ice cube’

The favorite to become Fed chair says tariffs are an important part of Trump’s economic policy and behind “a lot of the revenue coming into the Treasury.”

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Donald Trump says national debt is ‘peanuts’ compared with tariff income, which will pay dividends—but the math isn’t adding up

A $2,000 dividend for each citizen would increase the deficit by $6 trillion, according to one estimate, roughly twice as much as Trump’s tariffs are estimated to raise.

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