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3. I don't know why economists care about the 38 trillion dollar national debt.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Thu Oct 30, 2025, 09:06 AM

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Most of it is printed up for spending.
If it were a problem, we would have hit that tipping point long ago.
The US simply would not be able to make interest payments on such a large amount of money.

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yea. but it all falls into a category of fraud that will never be punished, rampartd Thursday #5

I don't know why economists care about the 38 trillion dollar national debt. Omnipresent Thursday #3

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