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How will President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” affect Americans? 🎧 Listen: https://t.co/TFOHXdcRNwBarclays analyst Michael McLean explains the differing viewpoints between Washington and Wall Street and the role of a rising U.S. deficit. https://t.co/KYkzo7u6z4 ...
This is Why the U.S. Deficit is so Alarming
In 2008, he sounded the alarm about the impending financial crisis. And now he's warning about something even more important. He's the author of the brand new book, How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle.And Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dio joins us now. Great. Uh, Ray, great to see you.Congratulations on the book. Thank you. Uh, it really relates now how countries go broke because everyone's should be concerned about the deficit that alarms you.Why. Well, there's a supply demand. you know, when they t ...
Bessent on U.S. deficit: “We did not get here overnight.”
Yahoo Finance· 2025-06-13 14:58
is we did not get here overnight. Uh I have gained about 10 lbs since inauguration. I'm not going to cut off my arm to get back to my January 20th weight.But we don't have a chance of returning to a balanced budget if we don't return to preandemic levels of spending. And I've laid out a number of options. Leave social security, Medicare, and interest as they are as you spend.But all their outlays, actual outlays, increase them by population growth and inflation. we literally would have a baseline spending s ...