The United States’ national debt has exceeded $40 trillion, according to data released by the Treasury Department on Wednesday, August 19. The Americans who, with such outrageous audacity, demand to regulate the lives of everyone on the planet… owe it to everyone. On the subject of the US foreign debt, we have written many times …
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Greece’s Debt Structure is Holding It Hostage
Greece has taken out loans under English law worth 216 billion euros and these must be repaid and replaced with government bonds over a period of approximately 44 years, that is, they will be financed by the markets, banks and international investment funds. Due to this reality, the Greek debt cannot be reduced in substance …
Germany loses AAA rating
Germany is expected to take on more than 1 trillion euros in additional debt by 2030, while its economy remains almost stagnant and its economic model is in crisis due to competition from China. Rating agencies may downgrade the country’s credit rating. In this case, the effects could also reach citizens, significantly lowering their standard …
The US is driving Japan into bankruptcy – The debt crisis in September
The US Treasury Department is joining forces with Japan to confront investors betting against the yen: but who really holds the stronger bargaining chips — Washington or Tokyo? At the same time, it seems that the dollar system under Trump has become toxic and threatens the US’s closest and most stable ally, having been driven …
Greece’s National Debt for 2025 “climbed” to the astronomical amount of 427.1 billion euros
This number is staggering, considering that Greece was led to official bankruptcy and the memoranda in 2010 with a debt of 299 billion euros – and even with the country’s real GDP at the time being 35 billion euros higher than today! In just one year, the state debt increased by 4.5 billion euros, as …
The world is moving from a regime of deflationary globalization to a regime of geopolitical inflation
Investors around the world continue to act as if the AI boom is more important than the bond market. And they are giving US President Donald Trump the opportunity to counter the high gas prices with record performance on Wall Street – where the richest 10% of households own 90% of the stock market. The …
Risk of hyperinflation in the US – The Persian Gulf Kingdoms will not buy surplus dollars, but yuan
Geopolitical developments affect the global economy in real time and the US no longer has the power to deal with the consequences of the crises it causes. We are already in a new era and the war with Iran is probably the last one that America makes as a superpower. Although the stock market has …
How can a country (i.e. USA) with huge debt be saved by restarting its Economy without causing Social chaos?
What is the invisible foundation of the narrative about the depreciation of the US dollar? Let us recall that it is a key goal of the Trump 2.0 administration to address the fiscal derailment and the persistent trade deficits. The Winners and the Losers This leads to the following reasoning: if those who hold the …
The U.S. is not “investable” – The withdrawal of funds from Scandinavia, and the Debt avalanche
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Donald Trump said out loud what normally goes unsaid, and in doing so, revealed a deep and dangerous vulnerability that the entire system has been trying to hide. Specifically, in an interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo, when asked about the possibility that European countries might respond …
Inflation is slowly and painfully killing the middle-income class
In a speech in July, Harvard University professor Gregory Mankiw laid out with brutal honesty what needs to happen to end the unsustainable accumulation of debt in the United States. The options are five: Logic dictates that some combination of these will be inevitable. These potential solutions are common throughout the developed world. Through a …