Interest on the Debt

[ClydeR]

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.

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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~]

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]

Clyder.. worried about the debt from 2001-2008, then not at all, and now again 2017-2024.

[Tgo01]

We already on to the next Trump disaster that will lead to Armageddon? That was fast.

[Fortybox]

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]

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.