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Trump's new $950 billion tariff scheme still leaves a 40% shortfall in his grand plan to rebalance the $39 trillion national debt, finds budget study

"We currently estimate that the tariffs enacted and proposed under this administration since January 2025 will generate about $825 billion less revenue through FY 2036 than estimated," the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says.

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The $39 trillion U.S. national debt isn’t as high as Japan’s and Singapore’s relative to economy size—and yet it’s still worse somehow

“Japan’s debt dynamics are fundamentally different from those of the United States … Japan is the world’s largest creditor nation. The U.S. is the world’s largest debtor.”

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'1,000% Going Bankrupt': Elon Musk Warns US Will Fail Without Robots

Elon Musk claims the US is '1,000%' headed for bankruptcy unless AI and robots turbocharge growth within three years, as America's $39 trillion national debt hits its highest level since World War II.

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Jamie Dimon wouldn't be putting more of his own money in the long end of the bond market right now, thanks to $39 trillion national debt fears

"These are very high debt numbers ... Usually you have to have like a great recession or a depression to have or war to have numbers like that," Dimon said.

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The national debt is over 100% of GDP and most of Congress is ignoring wishes to rein it in. It’s time to amend the Constitution

Today, U.S. debt held by the public currently stands at a staggering $31.68 trillion, a little more than 100% of GDP. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), if Washington continues to embrace its standard operating procedure, that figure is projected to climb to a stunning 175% of GDP…

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United States' $39 trillion national debt will mean fewer jobs at lower wages for Gen Z, according to think tank

"The growing national debt will both shrink the labor market and drive down wages, contributing to an uncertain economic future for millions of younger Americans," wrote the Peterson Foundation.

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Peter Schiff Warns Rising Interest Rates Are a 'Much Bigger' Threat With US Debt Nearing $40 Trillion

Renowned economist Peter Schiff has issued a stark warning regarding the trajectory of the United States’ financial health as the total federal debt has officially surged to a record $39.4 trillion. Commenting on the rising interest rates on the multi-trillion-dollar national debt, Schiff cautioned that the country is rapidly “nearing…

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AI could wipe $2.2 trillion off the national debt, but there's a catch

A new Brookings/Fed paper finds AI productivity could meaningfully shrink the U.S. deficit — until you count the side effects, which could erase more than half the savings before Washington even cashes the check.

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Ray Dalio says the U.S. just had its 'Suez moment'—and history says what comes next could end an empire

A national debt, fading empire and military victory that wasn't: Has America met its Suez Crisis with the Hormuz affair?

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Tariffs are generating only 25% of the revenue needed to pay interest on national debt—despite pitch that it would be a silver bullet

The CBO reported that between October and May 2026, the government has spent $742 billion servicing the debt burden, an increase on the $674 billion spent for the same period last year.

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Personal loans booming as cost of living drives Australians to borrow record amounts

National debt helpline calls have increased alongside growth in new personal loans, which charged an average 9% interest in March

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'Where we are today is frightening': a Pulitzer-winning historian sees a doomsday scenario involving China and the national debt

Liaquat Ahamed, whose “Lords of Finance” redefined the Great Depression, says America’s debt crisis has a clear historical precedent.

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Top JPMorgan analyst maps 5 ways America's debt crisis could unfold—and the 'best case' is still alarming

JPMorgan's David Kelly maps out five scenarios for the national debt over the next decade — the best-case is pretty, pretty bad.

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Interest on the national debt is eating a record 19% of federal revenue — and watchdog warns it will get worse

The 30-year Treasury yield just hit its highest point since before the Great Recession. A leading fiscal watchdog warns the timing could not be worse.

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U.S. national debt officially hits $39 trillion—adding $5 billion a day since October

According to Treasury data, updated retrospectively for May 18, the debt landed at $39,008,999,901,378.68.

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Robert Kiyosaki Warns Governments Will Print More 'Fake Money' — Recommends Bitcoin, Gold, and Silver

Robert Kiyosaki warns about inflation and national debt threatening the US economy, criticizes the Federal Reserve, and recommends investing in gold, silver, and cryptocurrencies for protection.

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Top economist says $39 trillion national debt leaves government worse prepared for recession than ever

The Fed’s hands would be tied in the case of a downturn.

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National debt is one of the only things Republican and Democrat voters are equally concerned about

Rising debt’s wide-reaching consequences are a rare point of shared concern for voters.

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AI could solve America's $39 trillion debt crisis—but only if Washington abandons displaced workers, Yale Budget Lab warns

A Yale Budget Lab report suggests AI-driven productivity gains could reverse the national debt's upward trajectory. But what about the workers?

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‘Cut up the credit cards:’ Members of Congress are getting brutal about ‘embarrassing’ $39 trillion national debt

“It’s only going to get worse until we cut up the credit cards and get serious.”

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US national debt is now bigger than the economy for first time since World War II

Lawmakers urged to ‘stop the bleeding’ and put the country on a more sustainable fiscal path

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The national debt is the same size as the economy. It's a 'disturbing warning and a call to action,' watchdog says

A new bipartisan survey finds near-universal concern that the national debt is driving up everyday costs, as fiscal confidence hits a 22-month low

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The national debt fix would cost $827 billion—roughly what America spends on its entire military, economists warn

A Cato Institute report lays out the scale of America's fiscal reckoning as the tools that once tamed the debt are no longer available.

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Jamie Dimon gets candid about national debt: ‘There will be a bond crisis, and then we’ll have to deal with it’

“The level of things that are adding to the risk column are high, like geopolitics, oil, government deficits. And they may go away, but they may not.”

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The $39 trillion national debt just got its own version of the viral Doomsday essay

Centrist political group No Labels is using science fiction to sound the alarm: "Neither party has any credibility on the debt or deficit right now."

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