monica_b1998@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThe U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five monthsfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square187linkfedilinkarrow-up1840cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1840external-linkThe U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five monthsfortune.commonica_b1998@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square187linkfedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoAre they now over 20 trillions in debt?
minus-square___@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoAllegedly over $38.4 trillion (as of December 2025)
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoYou can track it in real time to see just how fucked the US economy is. https://www.usdebtclock.org/
minus-squarePhoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months ago20? That was years ago, no? It’s somewhere in the deep 30s now
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months ago39 trillion https://www.usdebtclock.org/
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months agoIt’s not really “debt” when the “debtor” prints the money.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months agoStill consuming the countries future.
minus-squareKazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoIt is really debt when it stays on the books and the debtor has to pay interest, and servicing all that debt consumes 15% of the budget.
Are they now over 20 trillions in debt?
Allegedly over $38.4 trillion (as of December 2025)
You can track it in real time to see just how fucked the US economy is.
https://www.usdebtclock.org/
20? That was years ago, no? It’s somewhere in the deep 30s now
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39 trillion
https://www.usdebtclock.org/
It’s not really “debt” when the “debtor” prints the money.
Still consuming the countries future.
It is really debt when it stays on the books and the debtor has to pay interest, and servicing all that debt consumes 15% of the budget.