monica_b1998@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agoThe U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five monthsfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square187linkfedilinkarrow-up1841arrow-down19cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up1832arrow-down1external-linkThe U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five monthsfortune.commonica_b1998@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agomessage-square187linkfedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·20 days agoAre they now over 20 trillions in debt?
minus-square___@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·20 days agoAllegedly over $38.4 trillion (as of December 2025)
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·19 days agoYou can track it in real time to see just how fucked the US economy is. https://www.usdebtclock.org/
minus-squarePhoenixz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·20 days ago20? That was years ago, no? It’s somewhere in the deep 30s now
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·19 days ago39 trillion https://www.usdebtclock.org/
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·19 days agoIt’s not really “debt” when the “debtor” prints the money.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·19 days agoStill consuming the countries future.
minus-squareKazumara@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 days 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.