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The Unsustainable $40 Trillion National Debt
The Unsustainable $40 Trillion National Debt
Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times,
The national debt has now passed $40 trillion. It stands at 120 percent of GDP. That should alarm us and probably does but let's just be honest: no one can conceive of such figures. They are just floating zeros and no one has any sense of whether and to what extent this portends economic doom for us. Maybe it does or maybe it doesn't.
An electronic display shows the national debt in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 19,...
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US 10-year bond yields topped 5% on Monday, and again on Tuesday, as crude oil prices continued to move higher and overnight index swaps implied a higher chance of a Fed rate hike on Wednesday. The OIS market now has 24.9bps priced in for Wednesday’s FOMC meeting – suggesting that traders view a Fed hike this week as a near certainty.
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