▲ 35 ▼ U.S. Treasury is paying $3 billion a day in interest on national debt, says the CBO—having spent $10 billion to prop up the currency of its top lender (finance.yahoo.com) submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/usa@midwest.social 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] chocrates@piefed.world 1 point 2 months ago (1 child) Is there a fix? Other than defaulting on our debt somehow permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago I don't think we can eliminate the debt in a way that matters without making a bigger mess of it. There simply isn't a constructive way out that we're interested in. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago I don't think we can eliminate the debt in a way that matters without making a bigger mess of it. There simply isn't a constructive way out that we're interested in. permalink fedilink source parent