Causes of Uncontrollable US Public Spending and Debt
• MisesAnnual US public spending has been in deficit for decades. As a result, total US debt continues to increase year after year with no end in sight.
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Annual US public spending has been in deficit for decades. As a result, total US debt continues to increase year after year with no end in sight.
The American economy now has a new slogan: Buy now. Pay later. The idea is spend now.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is investigating more than 120 biological laboratories abroad that were funded by US taxpayer dollars for decades...
Annual US public spending has been in deficit for decades. As a result, total US debt continues to increase year after year with no end in sight.
Investors have never used this much leverage: US margin debt surged +$83 billion in April, to a record $1.3 trillion.
The United States debt crisis is starting to accelerate.
The Only Way Out Is the Printer
Projects that the government undertakes are likely to be of a questionable nature.
Although the original DOGE program by all measures failed to cut government spending in any significant way, its influence was strongly felt by one agency: the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
To say that the U.S. federal government is a little less than truthful would be the understatement of the century. It's expected that politicians bend the truth. When it comes to power and money, the incentive to lie is always there; and it's very of
National debt is a problem because it forces the people to bear a risk that they have no desire for or understanding of.
Global government debt has crossed a new milestone. Gross public debt worldwide reached $111 trillion in 2025, more than five times the $19.7 trillion recorded in 2000.
The man who helped the US economy recover from the 2008 financial crisis is now warning of something far worse.
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Ruler of the United States, Donald Trump, has proposed a $1.5 trillion "defense" budget in order to fund the war with Iran. On Friday, the ruler also requested a 10% cut in non-defense spending for the 2027 fiscal year.
It's important to note that these projections rest on the ridiculous assumption that there will be no wars, recessions, or other events that drive additional federal spending. That assumption is already out the window with the Iran war: the Pentago
And There's Only One Way This Ends
The U.S. government is insolvent. That's not hyperbole - it's the conclusion drawn directly from the Treasury Department's own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, released last week to near-total media silence.
JUST IN U.S. Treasury just bought back $15 Billion of their own debt, equaling the largest Treasury buyback in history
On March 10, a nonpartisan Washington think tank called the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget published a report called: "Break Glass: A Plan for the Next Economic Shock."
The government funding bill Trump just signed includes $3.1 billion for U.S. dues to the U.N. and other international organizations. "This is an excellent summary of the total betrayal of American voters by the Trump administration and Trump hi
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He warns that the real danger to Americans comes from mounting debt and inflation, not foreign actors, and he again emphasizes why sound money and gold matter as hedges in a reckless fiscal environment.
"Who won the Senate standoff? No one, in truth. Nothing really changed. Both..."
When I read the global insect-farming industry is collapsing, my first thought was--USAID! Of course!
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It's the magic number, the line that's not supposed to be crossed; when a nation's public debt finally exceeds its GDP.