![balajis's tweet photo. ECONOMICS > POLITICS
No election can pay off America's $175T in debt.
Only the printing press can.
Because as Elon, Dalio, and others realize...the Western world is headed for a sovereign debt crisis far worse than 2008. Just like they’ve been lying about Biden’s senility, they’ve also been lying about the economy. And so they're going to print a lot of currency. But take a look at the data and judge for yourself.
1) MORE EMERGENCY LOANS THAN 2008
First, did you know the Fed[1] made more emergency loans in 2023 than during the financial crisis of 2008? The banking system is on life support thanks to the US government first selling billions in bonds to financial institutions and then devaluing them with surprise rate hikes.
Just look at this graph from the Fed. The blue bump below on the left is the lending from the 2008 crisis — you know, that little old thing. The purple is COVID. And the giant orange/aquamarine monster on the right is the 2023 banking crisis. See how much higher it is than even 2008?
2) MORE BORROWING THAN COVID
Second, did you know the US is borrowing more[2] under the "Biden boom" than it did during COVID? Set aside whether a coronavirus should have been treated as a financial crisis. At least the COVID borrowing was at ~0% rates. But today the US government is borrowing historical sums of money in peacetime…and at 5% rates! This is the act of a desperate man maxing out his credit cards to pay his bills.
3) MORE INTEREST THAN DEFENSE
Third, did you know that all this borrowing has made interest payments on the national debt the single largest government expense? More than defense, or social security, or anything else[3a, 3b]. The number one thing all tax dollars (and printed dollars) now go towards as of 2024 are payments to bondholders. And even still, anyone who bought US Treasuries (or other bonds) got annihilated over the past few years.
For all the warfare and all the welfare, it was buy now pay later. And as you can see from the graph, the time to pay has come.
4) MORE DEVALUATION OF THE DOLLAR
Fourth, did you know that the dollar has lost at least 25% of its value in just four years[4a]? This one you probably knew from just your lived experience of inflation. But Larry Summers estimates[4b] that purchasing power has been eroded even more radically than this, with annual numbers hitting 18% if you include the enormous spike in loan payments due to rate hikes. Compounded over four years, that’d be considerably more than 25% of the dollar's value.
But wait, there's more. Six more graphs, and references. 👇](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTH_trVaYAAvNMW.jpg)
![balajis's tweet photo. ECONOMICS > POLITICS
No election can pay off America's $175T in debt.
Only the printing press can.
Because as Elon, Dalio, and others realize...the Western world is headed for a sovereign debt crisis far worse than 2008. Just like they’ve been lying about Biden’s senility, they’ve also been lying about the economy. And so they're going to print a lot of currency. But take a look at the data and judge for yourself.
1) MORE EMERGENCY LOANS THAN 2008
First, did you know the Fed[1] made more emergency loans in 2023 than during the financial crisis of 2008? The banking system is on life support thanks to the US government first selling billions in bonds to financial institutions and then devaluing them with surprise rate hikes.
Just look at this graph from the Fed. The blue bump below on the left is the lending from the 2008 crisis — you know, that little old thing. The purple is COVID. And the giant orange/aquamarine monster on the right is the 2023 banking crisis. See how much higher it is than even 2008?
2) MORE BORROWING THAN COVID
Second, did you know the US is borrowing more[2] under the "Biden boom" than it did during COVID? Set aside whether a coronavirus should have been treated as a financial crisis. At least the COVID borrowing was at ~0% rates. But today the US government is borrowing historical sums of money in peacetime…and at 5% rates! This is the act of a desperate man maxing out his credit cards to pay his bills.
3) MORE INTEREST THAN DEFENSE
Third, did you know that all this borrowing has made interest payments on the national debt the single largest government expense? More than defense, or social security, or anything else[3a, 3b]. The number one thing all tax dollars (and printed dollars) now go towards as of 2024 are payments to bondholders. And even still, anyone who bought US Treasuries (or other bonds) got annihilated over the past few years.
For all the warfare and all the welfare, it was buy now pay later. And as you can see from the graph, the time to pay has come.
4) MORE DEVALUATION OF THE DOLLAR
Fourth, did you know that the dollar has lost at least 25% of its value in just four years[4a]? This one you probably knew from just your lived experience of inflation. But Larry Summers estimates[4b] that purchasing power has been eroded even more radically than this, with annual numbers hitting 18% if you include the enormous spike in loan payments due to rate hikes. Compounded over four years, that’d be considerably more than 25% of the dollar's value.
But wait, there's more. Six more graphs, and references. 👇](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTH_jYObQAAy7zs.jpg)
![balajis's tweet photo. ECONOMICS > POLITICS
No election can pay off America's $175T in debt.
Only the printing press can.
Because as Elon, Dalio, and others realize...the Western world is headed for a sovereign debt crisis far worse than 2008. Just like they’ve been lying about Biden’s senility, they’ve also been lying about the economy. And so they're going to print a lot of currency. But take a look at the data and judge for yourself.
1) MORE EMERGENCY LOANS THAN 2008
First, did you know the Fed[1] made more emergency loans in 2023 than during the financial crisis of 2008? The banking system is on life support thanks to the US government first selling billions in bonds to financial institutions and then devaluing them with surprise rate hikes.
Just look at this graph from the Fed. The blue bump below on the left is the lending from the 2008 crisis — you know, that little old thing. The purple is COVID. And the giant orange/aquamarine monster on the right is the 2023 banking crisis. See how much higher it is than even 2008?
2) MORE BORROWING THAN COVID
Second, did you know the US is borrowing more[2] under the "Biden boom" than it did during COVID? Set aside whether a coronavirus should have been treated as a financial crisis. At least the COVID borrowing was at ~0% rates. But today the US government is borrowing historical sums of money in peacetime…and at 5% rates! This is the act of a desperate man maxing out his credit cards to pay his bills.
3) MORE INTEREST THAN DEFENSE
Third, did you know that all this borrowing has made interest payments on the national debt the single largest government expense? More than defense, or social security, or anything else[3a, 3b]. The number one thing all tax dollars (and printed dollars) now go towards as of 2024 are payments to bondholders. And even still, anyone who bought US Treasuries (or other bonds) got annihilated over the past few years.
For all the warfare and all the welfare, it was buy now pay later. And as you can see from the graph, the time to pay has come.
4) MORE DEVALUATION OF THE DOLLAR
Fourth, did you know that the dollar has lost at least 25% of its value in just four years[4a]? This one you probably knew from just your lived experience of inflation. But Larry Summers estimates[4b] that purchasing power has been eroded even more radically than this, with annual numbers hitting 18% if you include the enormous spike in loan payments due to rate hikes. Compounded over four years, that’d be considerably more than 25% of the dollar's value.
But wait, there's more. Six more graphs, and references. 👇](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTH_ciTaUAA_ael.jpg)
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Our politicians, corporate leaders, and media hacks became so corrupt over the years that this latest turn towards brazen corruption has followed naturally.
Each decision to put their own self-interest ahead of the national interest has hollowed out public trust and set ethical standards ever lower. No one has been held accountable. Instead, those responsible have been rewarded—sometimes with tens, hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars for their behavior.
It’s now every person for themselves. As trust in the nation and the collective national project disintegrates, people will retreat into tribal units. Meanwhile, where are the Bushes? The Obamas? The Clintons? The political families and their enablers who preached unity and sacrifice, yet whose actions contributed, step by step, to the crisis we now face. Are they quietly provisioning their lifeboats while the rest of us make do with an America that increasingly resembles a patronage system rather than a meritocracy? Think about how rotten the system must be that there's no one with credibility and a platform willing to speak out against the larceny and destruction of our values.
Some are attempting to justify what's happening or to spin it as “not so bad” or chalk it up to “TDS.” Perhaps they’ve never lived in a low-trust society, where currying favor with the powerful is the only way to get ahead. They may not understand how political economies collapse.
Of those who do understand, many have been co-opted, while others have resigned themselves to the decline. It’s hard not to feel resignation. I feel it more and more. How could you not? Many of today’s new political and corporate leaders and influencers in the media are so lauded and their views so popular that it’s difficult to see any appetite for meaningful change. Instead, token gestures and political prosecutions are the order of the day.
Rather than get their house in order, the corrupt Democratic establishment and media machine spent 8 years between Trump's election and his re-election pretending he was the singular cause of America’s problems—choosing to prosecute him, in some cases for crimes that no one else would have been prosecuted for.
And now, we have a new crop of overlords, grifters, and media hacks. Those of us who keep our noses clean can spot them everywhere. It's obvious who they are—they don't make any effort to hide it. But in a low-trust society, it probably won’t matter. Only the “suckers” play by the rules, act ethically, or seek the common good. Slowly but surely, corruption spreads, and everyone becomes complicit.
This is something you can’t fully understand unless you’ve lived in a low-trust society, where every action is potentially criminal, and survival often means breaking laws that have become arbitrary tools of political tyrants and demagogues. That’s where this is headed. And Trump didn’t cause it—he’s simply a natural product of this environment, a survivor of social Darwinian selection.
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ECONOMICS > POLITICS
No election can pay off America's $175T in debt.
Only the printing press can.
Because as Elon, Dalio, and others realize...the Western world is headed for a sovereign debt crisis far worse than 2008. Just like they’ve been lying about Biden’s senility, they’ve also been lying about the economy. And so they're going to print a lot of currency. But take a look at the data and judge for yourself.
1) MORE EMERGENCY LOANS THAN 2008
First, did you know the Fed[1] made more emergency loans in 2023 than during the financial crisis of 2008? The banking system is on life support thanks to the US government first selling billions in bonds to financial institutions and then devaluing them with surprise rate hikes.
Just look at this graph from the Fed. The blue bump below on the left is the lending from the 2008 crisis — you know, that little old thing. The purple is COVID. And the giant orange/aquamarine monster on the right is the 2023 banking crisis. See how much higher it is than even 2008?
2) MORE BORROWING THAN COVID
Second, did you know the US is borrowing more[2] under the "Biden boom" than it did during COVID? Set aside whether a coronavirus should have been treated as a financial crisis. At least the COVID borrowing was at ~0% rates. But today the US government is borrowing historical sums of money in peacetime…and at 5% rates! This is the act of a desperate man maxing out his credit cards to pay his bills.
3) MORE INTEREST THAN DEFENSE
Third, did you know that all this borrowing has made interest payments on the national debt the single largest government expense? More than defense, or social security, or anything else[3a, 3b]. The number one thing all tax dollars (and printed dollars) now go towards as of 2024 are payments to bondholders. And even still, anyone who bought US Treasuries (or other bonds) got annihilated over the past few years.
For all the warfare and all the welfare, it was buy now pay later. And as you can see from the graph, the time to pay has come.
4) MORE DEVALUATION OF THE DOLLAR
Fourth, did you know that the dollar has lost at least 25% of its value in just four years[4a]? This one you probably knew from just your lived experience of inflation. But Larry Summers estimates[4b] that purchasing power has been eroded even more radically than this, with annual numbers hitting 18% if you include the enormous spike in loan payments due to rate hikes. Compounded over four years, that’d be considerably more than 25% of the dollar's value.
But wait, there's more. Six more graphs, and references. 👇
![balajis's tweet photo. ECONOMICS > POLITICS
No election can pay off America's $175T in debt.
Only the printing press can.
Because as Elon, Dalio, and others realize...the Western world is headed for a sovereign debt crisis far worse than 2008. Just like they’ve been lying about Biden’s senility, they’ve also been lying about the economy. And so they're going to print a lot of currency. But take a look at the data and judge for yourself.
1) MORE EMERGENCY LOANS THAN 2008
First, did you know the Fed[1] made more emergency loans in 2023 than during the financial crisis of 2008? The banking system is on life support thanks to the US government first selling billions in bonds to financial institutions and then devaluing them with surprise rate hikes.
Just look at this graph from the Fed. The blue bump below on the left is the lending from the 2008 crisis — you know, that little old thing. The purple is COVID. And the giant orange/aquamarine monster on the right is the 2023 banking crisis. See how much higher it is than even 2008?
2) MORE BORROWING THAN COVID
Second, did you know the US is borrowing more[2] under the "Biden boom" than it did during COVID? Set aside whether a coronavirus should have been treated as a financial crisis. At least the COVID borrowing was at ~0% rates. But today the US government is borrowing historical sums of money in peacetime…and at 5% rates! This is the act of a desperate man maxing out his credit cards to pay his bills.
3) MORE INTEREST THAN DEFENSE
Third, did you know that all this borrowing has made interest payments on the national debt the single largest government expense? More than defense, or social security, or anything else[3a, 3b]. The number one thing all tax dollars (and printed dollars) now go towards as of 2024 are payments to bondholders. And even still, anyone who bought US Treasuries (or other bonds) got annihilated over the past few years.
For all the warfare and all the welfare, it was buy now pay later. And as you can see from the graph, the time to pay has come.
4) MORE DEVALUATION OF THE DOLLAR
Fourth, did you know that the dollar has lost at least 25% of its value in just four years[4a]? This one you probably knew from just your lived experience of inflation. But Larry Summers estimates[4b] that purchasing power has been eroded even more radically than this, with annual numbers hitting 18% if you include the enormous spike in loan payments due to rate hikes. Compounded over four years, that’d be considerably more than 25% of the dollar's value.
But wait, there's more. Six more graphs, and references. 👇](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTIA_4rbEAAwqsj.jpg)
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A perfect example of headless runaway bureaucracy and the worst tendencies of capitalism. An unabashed simulacra of activism. The shining star of corporate surrealism (extremely underrated genre btw)
The supreme goal of the artist is to challenge the audience. Not sure I've seen such a strong reaction to art in my life. Spurring thousands of discussions about the meaning of art, politics, humanity, history, education, ai safety, how to govern a company, how to approach the current state of social unrest, how to do the right thing regarding the collective trauma.
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