Does the United States have a spending problem? Obviously, but I really wanted to talk about how the cost of living crisis is presenting itself in your community. That relates to this article because you can’t squeeze blood from a stone. If all of you have no disposable income, no savings, and a job market that can’t support your current cost of living… What happens if you lose your job? Do you default on loan obligations along with America because we are stretched to the edge. Should we vote in members of congress to pass more tax breaks for private jets?Are mods whack? Let me know in the comments.

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    Large growth between 21-24 then linear growth after that.

    I wonder why the projections are that way.

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    Seems like the US consumer is stuck between a government with drunk spending, and a ton of debt. Next to a corporation who’s squeezed every last penny out of people between wages and costs of goods and services. If GDP is to increase enough to pay off the debt, how does that happen? The only GDP growth comes from sucking up wages and monopolizing, and good old government spending.

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      the US consumer is stuck between a government with drunk spending, and a ton of debt

      don’t forget… bilionaires play for free.

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    19 hours ago

    Its almost like this Trump chap doesn’t pay any attention to due debts.

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      I’ve got my eyes on that possibility as well. Although right now im kinda thinking they just dump crypto because they couldn’t sell the dream fast enough. Crypto might just be used to grift the crypto investors and not the entire globe. Time will tell.

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      Totally necessary when you need to finance 10 Trillion dollars in tax cuts for the rich over 10 years. They also bolster international trade so it’s not all bad. Issuing bonds for infrastructure with built in returns for example good use of leverage and tax payer dollars.

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        I assume the first sentence is a joke.

        Don’t know how they bolster international trade. If anything, they inhibit it as China parks its trillions of dollars in treasuries to artificially inflate the value of the dollar to make their exports more competitive and the US’s less.

        The federal government doesn’t need bonds to fund infrastructure. It issues the currency. We don’t need to get a loan in a currency we issue.

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          I wish it was a joke, they just did that with the Big beautiful bill last year. It’s not an ideal way to use them and probably should be banned.

          Japan/china hold US bonds because its makes for easy trading, it stabilizes the currency exchange market and allows for large payments to be made without much fuss. The only reason why they want our bonds is because we trade so much. chinas mechanism of controlling the exchange rate is the same as the US, we both like to just print more money. National bank buys bonds to stabilize market. anyway most of the time the bonds are held to avoid exchange rates. They themselves becoming a medium of trade like cash between nations.

          Of course we don’t need to issue bonds at all for funding, again they are just a useful tool for global investing and trade. They get abused and extorted like any other financial market. christ imagine if we were using silver as a medium of exchange. their not really something I’d spend much effort defending politically, but economically idk I invest in them. They were kinda nice back when the federal government functioned

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    Mods don’t want us discussing what our back up plans are for job loss. But if you lost your job today, what job would you apply to on indeed, and would there be enough money from that job to pay your current bills? Do you think there is security in your job market if you lose your job?