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ClydeR
10-07-2018, 08:00 PM
Within a decade, more than $900 billion in interest payments will be due annually, easily outpacing spending on myriad other programs. Already the fastest-growing major government expense, the cost of interest is on track to hit $390 billion next year, nearly 50 percent more than in 2017, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

More... (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/business/economy/us-government-debt-interest.html)


What does the financial future hold? Possibilities are long-term higher inflation rates, short-term debilitating inflation hikes, substantially higher taxes, and/or currency collapse.

~Rocktar~
10-07-2018, 09:31 PM
What does the financial future hold? Possibilities are long-term higher inflation rates, short-term debilitating inflation hikes, substantially higher taxes, and/or currency collapse.

All caused by run away spending on entitlement/welfare programs.

Parkbandit
10-07-2018, 11:16 PM
Clyder.. worried about the debt from 2001-2008, then not at all, and now again 2017-2024.

Tgo01
10-08-2018, 12:00 AM
We already on to the next Trump disaster that will lead to Armageddon? That was fast.

Fortybox
10-08-2018, 12:01 AM
We already on to the next Trump disaster that will lead to Armageddon? That was fast.

I was expecting us to revisit the Mueller investigation. Something has to drop before the election on that...you know that's what they are planning.

ClydeR
10-08-2018, 08:23 PM
I was expecting us to revisit the Mueller investigation. Something has to drop before the election on that...you know that's what they are planning.




No. The FBI would never do that.