What the government is doing now is the equivalent of holding a 30-year mortgage at a 3% interest rate and refinancing it into a 4% one-year adjustable-rate mortgage.
In other words, you are replacing longer-term, lower-cost debt with shorter-term, higher-cost debt.
Now apply that to trillions of US dollars.
That is effectively what the US Treasury is being forced to do as long-term yields surge.
Unfortunately, the Treasury is largely playing the hand it has been dealt.
The next phase of the US deficit spending crisis began today.
BREAKING: Total US debt officially hits $40 trillion for the first time in history.
That's $119,699 in US debt for every American.
This puts the total US debt balance up +$17 trillion since 2020 and +$30 trillion since 2008.
We are on an unsustainable fiscal path.