Who does the US Owe its $35 Trillion debt? (National Debt Explained)

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  • čas přidán 3. 10. 2021
  • The US is in a lot of debt. Currently, the country owes $28.2 trillion dollars. But… who would even lend them that much money? Who does the US owe this massive sum!?
    Well, the answer to that is pretty simple. In large part it owes itself that much money… but there’s also quite a few other countries it owes too.
    Hate my video and just want the answer? Here's the breakdown:
    33% US Investors
    12% Federal Reserve
    27% US Government
    28% Foreign Investors & Governments
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  • @ConcerningReality
    @ConcerningReality  Před rokem +272

    I CAN'T UPDATE THE VIDEO TITLE FAST ENOUGH. SOMEBODY HALLPPPPP.

    • @plushylifecool
      @plushylifecool Před rokem +5

      lol

    • @josephpye9122
      @josephpye9122 Před rokem +6

      What country has given urain the most arms

    • @LEK-we2hh
      @LEK-we2hh Před rokem +8

      More tax we pay more big the deficit 🙈
      They borrow, spend. We pay it back ))

    • @robertpatterson3321
      @robertpatterson3321 Před rokem +10

      You mean: "To whom does The US owe $38.2 Trillion dollars." , right?

    • @itskarl79
      @itskarl79 Před rokem

      National debt is a lie, it's more like national elite laundering of tax dollars. Rich people/corps in our own country are collecting the interest on it, because they predominately own the debt. AND the debt was acquired through overpriced dirty politics, by ALL YOUR ELECTED government. DON'T accept the con....

  • @ChristopherAbelman
    @ChristopherAbelman Před 2 měsíci +1210

    The belief that the Federal Reserve would stop raising interest rates was the driving force behind the entire economic chaos. What should we do now that we have a situation where interest rates are crashing? At this point, how would you suggest that I safely allocate $300k?

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      @PennyBergeron-os4ch Před 2 měsíci +1

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    @DonaldMark-ne7se Před 29 dny +1433

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    @HodgeChris Před měsícem +711

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  • @encinobalboa
    @encinobalboa Před rokem +975

    By my math, 31Tr divided by US population of 330M is about 93,000 per capita. If they would allow me to pay off my portion of the national debt in exchange for not paying taxes ever again, I would take the deal.

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      @Ralphie5023 Před rokem +12

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    • @prajeeshprasannakumar
      @prajeeshprasannakumar Před rokem +44

      That is debt payoff. You should pay living expenses (Security, Transportation, etc) to layoff TAX.
      If there was some one time settlement, our life may become easy.

    • @xxyanlixx
      @xxyanlixx Před rokem

      the US government can suck wayyy more than 93k from you during your lifetime. US government grinning atm.

    • @doggygaming950
      @doggygaming950 Před rokem +4

      Thanks captain obvious.

    • @encinobalboa
      @encinobalboa Před rokem +20

      @@doggygaming950 It's obvious you did not read all of my post.

  • @ohyeahyeah-xt1zr
    @ohyeahyeah-xt1zr Před 2 lety +1260

    It's funny how they keep calling it a debt ceiling when they keep raising the ceiling.

    • @petersack5074
      @petersack5074 Před 2 lety +16

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    • @DarkepyonX
      @DarkepyonX Před rokem

      Funny how it wasn't an issue till late 1990s ,even Reagan chided people for even mentioning it as it was always something done without question before

    • @MarcJonnz
      @MarcJonnz Před rokem +18

      It’s cause there’s a party in the USA.

    • @AsobiMedio
      @AsobiMedio Před rokem +26

      Because its dumb and meant only for political drama. The U.S is one of only two countries in the developed world that have a debt ceiling. The other is Denmark, weirdly enough.

    • @maddogwillie1019
      @maddogwillie1019 Před rokem +41

      It's a ceiling made out of clouds..It don't mean nothing.

  • @PatrickLloyd-
    @PatrickLloyd- Před 7 měsíci +230

    The U.S. economy relies on ongoing credit and debt generation for sustenance. The Federal Reserve is expected to increase the money supply, leading to further debt accumulation for the average American. Meanwhile, foreign nations continue to desire the U.S. dollar, despite their own economies facing significant challenges, some even worse than that of the U.S. This situation raises concerns about who will ultimately bear the consequences of these economic dynamics.

    • @Nernst96
      @Nernst96 Před 7 měsíci +1

      They do say gold will crash in a liquidity crunch However, many of those holding precious metals are preparing for such an event. So they are unlikely to be forced sellers. The paper market would tank and hopefully collapse.

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  • @bill5197
    @bill5197 Před rokem +89

    Good on you for not stretching this out to a 20 min exploratory dissertation. Making this concise reaches a lot of people to realize this important issue.

    • @jdos5643
      @jdos5643 Před rokem

      Can’t wait for Gods kingdom to take over. No more debt. No more taxes no more slavery to 9-5 no more renting a home.

  • @VAMobMember
    @VAMobMember Před rokem +122

    I think we are well past the point where we could even theoretically pay off our debt, in short we are already bankrupt

    • @juniorbitare-hebert6711
      @juniorbitare-hebert6711 Před rokem

      🖨 💵 💵

    • @Luca-sz5uy
      @Luca-sz5uy Před rokem +4

      you underestimate the amount of taxes your government chooses not to raise

    • @VAMobMember
      @VAMobMember Před rokem

      @@Luca-sz5uy no, I under estimate NOTHING. You fall for the LIES that the left tells. You think that the “rich” don’t pay their fair share because the extreme left tells you that but what you will NEVER hear them tell you is how much is their fair share. Today between local, state and federal taxes (of all kinds) the so called rich pay over 50% in taxes.
      And the extreme left (specifically Biden) say they will not raise the taxes on anyone making less than $400:000 then INCREASE the number of IRS agents by almost ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND, now why do they need that many agents when only the rich are going to see their taxes raised?
      And how much money does the government need to operate? And how much do they need to BUY VOTES? Look at parts of CA where they are trying to spend MILLIONS if not BILLIONS on reparations to Blacks. But only if they are member of the LGBTQ community?
      Read the TENTH AMENDMENT some time and think about all the things the Federal Government spends money on and if it violates the LETTER of the 10th Amendment.

    • @zickzeon2946
      @zickzeon2946 Před rokem +4

      Apparently you do not understand bankruptcy

    • @Luca-sz5uy
      @Luca-sz5uy Před rokem

      @@zickzeon2946 and you dont understand how a government works

  • @ralphflores8661
    @ralphflores8661 Před rokem +76

    There is no way we can pay it back because as soon as we have the money to pay it off some wiseguy is going to figure out how to spend it or steal it ...

    • @peraperic-011
      @peraperic-011 Před 22 hodinami

      thers no paying back... its global ponzi scheme to take real value from other countries

  • @jagervolant7871
    @jagervolant7871 Před rokem +452

    So basically it’s fake money, and the crooks are completely in charge of it. Got it. What could go wrong. 😂

    • @googlesmostwantedfrog147
      @googlesmostwantedfrog147 Před rokem +21

      Theres a CZcams vide called The Creature from Jekyll Island which explains the Federal Reserve-its a long video 6 hours but It will change your life
      Listen to it a little at a time

    • @dildoswaggins2907
      @dildoswaggins2907 Před rokem

      @@googlesmostwantedfrog147 another one that’s good is’ the battle for Europa’ talks about the fed, Bolshevik revolution etc. these fuckers have been in cahoots for a while

    • @SliderHarDCorE
      @SliderHarDCorE Před rokem +1

      It's not fake money - it is fake currency, there's a big difference.
      Every $ created steals value from everyone on the planet who owns and uses those $'s, thus making them poorer !
      It is like - someone is eating free lunch today, but you are paying for that lunch the following day for the rest of your life, as long as you own that currency !
      The concept of currencies is the worst invention in human history. It allows the select minority to silently and continuously stealing from every living person who uses their currency as long as they're alive, without the need of using any power. Feat that not even the most powerful kings/rullers of the past could achieve. :X

    • @LATEXXJUGGERNUT
      @LATEXXJUGGERNUT Před rokem

      Collective Debt is Slavery in Disguise.
      All Fiat Currency is Collectivist Currency.

    • @stormysyndrome7043
      @stormysyndrome7043 Před rokem +1

      Considering economies are human constructs…yeah, fake money. Humans decide the value of items based on supply and demand as well as a few other factors like scarcity etc. From there, we can literally wipe the slate clean and restart at any moment. Everything humans do is pretty much human created, including culture, systems, governments, so on and so forth. Everything is kinda fake except the real stuff… that stuff we kinda need. Food, air, and water. Anything more than that you need to have incentive for others to want to do it… so economies exist.
      We’ve tried the free living during Covid. It was a worldwide experiment that failed beyond measure. It made folks lazy rather than wanting to work. It made them sit at home doing nothing. There were many out there every single day making things work, but by and large most didn’t do much of anything. So, back to the slave game we went… if you owe money, you’re pretty much beholden to them until your debt is paid.

  • @johnlennon232
    @johnlennon232 Před rokem +852

    I REALLY need to make this money work for me, and not just disappear over time. I've been scrambling for somewhere to put the money, where I can make an effort to use the gains to pay bills so I can quit my job or should force early retirement. All roads have pointed to the financial market of some sort which is a good idea buh where else should I put money besides the financial market? We have a 13% RPI rate so cash is tough.

    • @alexyoung3126
      @alexyoung3126 Před rokem +3

      Yep great question and that’s always the one - where would you rather be if you have an option. Personally I’m always invested aside from a small emergency fund. Financial-market for me seem the only way forward with my long time horizon (accrued almost $1.4m in gains since 2020 ) but if you don’t have that fortune of time it’s a tough market out there almost nowhere feels safe! . Just know the risk you're comfortable with . Mistake is expensive

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      @joesphcu8975 Před rokem +1

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      @kimyoung8414 Před rokem +2

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  • @skaracaesar4789
    @skaracaesar4789 Před rokem +19

    "It's not that we have this money lying around to send to Ukraine. We borrow this money from China to send to Ukraine", Republican Senator Ron Paul.

    • @shellilove9478
      @shellilove9478 Před 10 měsíci

      Don't worry uncle joe will keep giving money away.

    • @bobmanners8624
      @bobmanners8624 Před 13 hodinami

      I guess Rand Paul is 30% right, but 70% wrong.

  • @SgtRock-cr2sh
    @SgtRock-cr2sh Před rokem +298

    The U.S. is actually paying $5000 a SECOND in interest on this debt.That is unbelievable!

    • @strattuner
      @strattuner Před rokem +42

      true,and there'll be no paying back 30+trillion,and over 300 trillion in unfunded liabilities,no way,no how,they are kicking the can down the street and sooner or later,the can goes in the ditch

    • @trivialinsignific
      @trivialinsignific Před rokem +37

      you mean"we"are paying 5k a second -

    • @yellowstone7459
      @yellowstone7459 Před rokem +9

      Interest payable at today's rate is 800 billion per year.

    • @asagayaboy5481
      @asagayaboy5481 Před rokem +6

      $5000? That low?

    • @MM-ig1iv
      @MM-ig1iv Před rokem +4

      Yeah but how much are they going in debt per second?

  • @marksherrill9337
    @marksherrill9337 Před 2 lety +284

    I’m afraid operating in a negative will continue until the government is insolvent. Congress spends as if they are drunk.

    • @1jh963
      @1jh963 Před rokem +11

      Don’t worry when the printing press doesn’t run out of ink

    • @benjiwatson2368
      @benjiwatson2368 Před rokem +9

      @@1jh963 It doesn’t, but one day the interest payments become too much.

    • @Walter-dm3zf
      @Walter-dm3zf Před rokem +1

      It's pretty simple balance the deficit in5 years. The DOD is throwing money away like it worst nothing
      7000$ coffee makers 650$ toilet seats and the list goes on F 35 they quit counting on that one.All the bugeta went over. They fail audit 5 times in a row.
      The next thing is to get the billionaires to pay a 5% increase in taxes, I don't think that would hurt them
      In 5 years The REP.are the
      the problem they lining their pocket with our money.And for somebody talking about tax cuts run their ass out the country.

    • @gibraltarchan9750
      @gibraltarchan9750 Před rokem +6

      THEY NOT JUST DRUNK, THEY ARE UTTERLY .....PISSED

    • @hubertwalters4300
      @hubertwalters4300 Před rokem +1

      @@benjiwatson2368 Seems like I heard that in a decade the government will be paying 800 billion dollars a year just in interest on the debt, that will be more than we spend on national defense.

  • @adnh3167
    @adnh3167 Před rokem +84

    The most important part that was left out is the fact that US prints money out of thin air to Pay out to those naive Bond holder which lowers the purchasing power of Dollar. So for example 10 years ago when 100$ Savings bond was issued, you could buy 100 candy with 100$, 10 years later you wont be able to buy the same 100 candy even with the interest + principal. You would also have to pay tax on interest income. So the bond holders end up loosing significant amount of wealth at bond maturity date.

    • @bankaiiibankaaa4573
      @bankaiiibankaaa4573 Před rokem +5

      That's quite optimistic, real inflation for the average Joe, the little man is on average 50% for the past year. Let me give you an example, last year I eat a sandwich for 4.7$, today I bought the same one, from the same place and it was 7.6$. This is just a small example of what's going on.

    • @houssamadnane271
      @houssamadnane271 Před rokem +2

      there's actually inflation bonds which go higher in intrests with inflation levels

    • @GreenHammers
      @GreenHammers Před rokem +1

      @@houssamadnane271 so its actually not the interest that increases, it’s the par value that increases with inflation, so the interest rates actually go down as inflation rises, but you get the price appreciation from the bond itself.

    • @houssamadnane271
      @houssamadnane271 Před rokem +1

      @@GreenHammers ohhh okey it sounds like a good deal to protect money from inflation

    • @GreenHammers
      @GreenHammers Před rokem +5

      @@houssamadnane271 prolly gonna sound preachy or pretentious, but I work for a private wealth manager and speak with sales reps from all the big investment banks regularly and all of them have actually said their investment teams have sold their inflation protected bonds this last quarter. Technically speaking, stocks are actually the best place to keep your money to mitigate inflation risk since they also price upwards with inflation, it's just that there's not a direct mechanism that performs the inflation adjustment like with the bonds we're discussing. Counter-inuitive right? Drives me nuts sometimes.

  • @helenoliver4838
    @helenoliver4838 Před 9 měsíci +82

    A weak dollar can signal an economic downturn, making me to ponder on what are the best possible ways to hedge against inflation, and I've overheard people say inflation is a money-eater thus worried about my savings around $200k.

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      @georgereynolds906 Před 9 měsíci

      The stock market is a way to hedge against inflation. Most notably amidst recession, investors need to understand where and how to allocate funds to hedge against inflation and still make profits.

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  • @rabuanmantine8522
    @rabuanmantine8522 Před rokem +353

    In a world of delusion and confusion raising the debt ceiling is celebrated as victory

    • @alphacentauri7381
      @alphacentauri7381 Před rokem +4

      The best comment

    • @awesomejob4209
      @awesomejob4209 Před rokem +3

      Only stupidity and manipulations of the receiver of buying these debts.

    • @MrAmhara
      @MrAmhara Před rokem +8

      It has to raise. Because needs are constantly growing. Population grows, production grows , new technologies and industries ect. It's normal.

    • @awesomejob4209
      @awesomejob4209 Před rokem

      @@MrAmhara not normal it needs to be put on a leash, raising the debt ceiling wouldn't benefit the population. Instead to fund wars and destructions its the only nation on earth needing to spend this high amount but the people are poor and infrastructures are failing, only and blinded insane persons would think that they would benefit.

    • @sneeringimperialist6667
      @sneeringimperialist6667 Před rokem +2

      Yay! More credit cards ! We're rich!
      Wait... Pay what back? No... That's my money!

  • @westcoast8961
    @westcoast8961 Před 2 lety +86

    It's been less than a year since this video and we owe 30.5 trillion dollars so NO we do not plan on paying the debt off but increase it. The sad part is bad government brings on more debt not less .

    • @HH-lc8zw
      @HH-lc8zw Před rokem +2

      Please return our money, thank you

    • @sootuckchoong7077
      @sootuckchoong7077 Před rokem

      The govt is now broke... but wait! They will easily increase the debt ceiling again to $40, $,50 or even $60 trillion dollars! Just watch!

    • @wengelder9256
      @wengelder9256 Před rokem +5

      @@HH-lc8zw of course debt is repaid . You are confusing repayment with decrease of debt level.

    • @douglasscovil3447
      @douglasscovil3447 Před rokem +2

      as the required interest payments on the natl debt increase, so will the total amount of the natl debt.

    • @hubertwalters4300
      @hubertwalters4300 Před rokem +1

      We will never pay off the debt.

  • @jimwerther
    @jimwerther Před rokem +4

    Nice video - straight to the point, not dragged out. Well done.

  • @The_Chad_007
    @The_Chad_007 Před rokem +17

    The debt is owed to the central banking system otherwise known as the federal reserve. Which by the way isn't federal by any means. It's privately owned.

    • @Haijwsyz51846
      @Haijwsyz51846 Před rokem +2

      Privately owned? That means the United States is privately owned, doesn’t it?

    • @Lumalnatti11
      @Lumalnatti11 Před 5 měsíci

      @@Haijwsyz51846 I'm pretty sure I'm an owner of United States because I know I'm not an investor or I would see the returns by now and I know I'm not its slave because human slavery is illegal. Is it possible to be considered an investor without your informed consent?

    • @Haijwsyz51846
      @Haijwsyz51846 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@Lumalnatti11 you can't be an owner of the US unless US has become a communist country. But a good news to you is that you are an owner of the US debt if you consider owning debt is akin to owning property.

    • @Lumalnatti11
      @Lumalnatti11 Před 5 měsíci

      @@Haijwsyz51846 Interesting what you say about communism... Seems to makes sense that the amount of debt owned by US is equal to the amount of property owned also, or who would buy debt? Lovely, Thanks for your input.

  • @wooddawg4868
    @wooddawg4868 Před rokem +107

    The central banks are who they owe the money to. In America, it's called the federal reserve which is actually a privately owned institution. The central banks control nearly all of the debt in the US which is broken among a few families of the world.

    • @scottward1002
      @scottward1002 Před rokem +4

      And who exactly are those slimy families what are their names be specific??????

    • @9and7
      @9and7 Před rokem +16

      @@scottward1002 You don't know?

    • @margaretfrew6661
      @margaretfrew6661 Před rokem +11

      The Federal Reserve System is not "owned" by anyone. The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 by the Federal Reserve Act to serve as the nation's central bank. The Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., is an agency of the federal government and reports to and is directly accountable to the Congress.

    • @slode1693
      @slode1693 Před rokem

      @@margaretfrew6661 Wrong! There's a reason "owned" is in "" in your cut and paste reply. All of the federal banks, JP Morgan Chase, BOA, Wells Fargo..., all own shares of the Federal reserve and make the interest on the dept through dividends. Those are the folks raking it in off a big chunk of the US dept. These banks are still largely held by members of the original central banking giants like the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, & Lehmans

    • @queensgambit4982
      @queensgambit4982 Před rokem

      You are a very educated person .. the fed essentially controls and creates world debt ..

  • @rogertayloRRR
    @rogertayloRRR Před rokem +44

    A central bank is not the country "itself". Sometimes that gets forgotten

    • @williamrice1955
      @williamrice1955 Před rokem +2

      We need a real National Bank owned by the people.

    • @VonAndHisCello
      @VonAndHisCello Před rokem

      ​@@williamrice1955 Too much power for the people

    • @thinkngskeptic
      @thinkngskeptic Před 9 měsíci

      People tend to make the mistake of conflating the country and the government

  • @MP-tf7cc
    @MP-tf7cc Před rokem +12

    Gee, what if the Dept of Defense located the $27 TRILLION missing and unaccounted for from their budget ?

    • @bman6502
      @bman6502 Před 10 měsíci

      MP, that’s chump change for the military.. they get $850 trillion annually so they don’t have to be financially responsible… and what’s even more insane, the general public is willing to cut their own benefits to give more to military..

  • @juankoser2064
    @juankoser2064 Před rokem +1

    great video, short and to the point thank you for explaining.

  • @IanMikrut
    @IanMikrut Před 2 lety +60

    "Will WE Ever Pay it off?"
    I already paid my taxes, I don't Owe anyone Anything.

    • @angel-ij4xv
      @angel-ij4xv Před 2 lety

      other countries owe debt in America to that's how it works

    • @spanishfly7709
      @spanishfly7709 Před 2 lety +1

      Yes you do next year.

    • @henrygustav7948
      @henrygustav7948 Před 2 lety +5

      Hello, the US National debt is nothing but a record of all the USD the Federal government has spent, not taxed yet which sits in savings accounts. In order to pay back these Treasury bonds, the Fed debits a savings account and credits a checking account thru the use of a keyboard. The National debt = assets for the economy. It functions as our net money supply.
      As economist L. Randall Wray sums it here, “if we want our private sector to save, which almost everybody agrees is a good idea, the public sector must run a deficit.” And what happens when the public sector runs a surplus? The US has done so 7 times, and Wray has an answer: “The first 6 of those were followed by our only 6 depressions.” And the 7th was during the Clinton years, which led to a recession in the early 2000s and then a global financial collapse in 2008.
      1817-1821 debt paid down & budget in surplus (depression began 1819)
      1823-1836 debt paid down & budget in surplus (depression began in 1837)
      1852-1857 debt paid down & budget in surplus (depression began in 1857)
      1867-1873 debt paid down & budget in surplus (depression began in 1873)
      1880-1893 debt paid down & budget in surplus
      (depression began in 1893)
      1920-1930 debt paid down and budget in surplus
      (depression began in 1929
      1998-2001 debt paid down and budget in surplus (recession 2001 2008)

    • @thinkcat01
      @thinkcat01 Před rokem +1

      IRM US us printing its own money, therefore, there is no need to pay back US or pay back to itself. US should print more money to spent on infrastructure rather than on corporations.

    • @DarkepyonX
      @DarkepyonX Před rokem

      Exactly, the general public paying it's taxes means none of this is on them , this isnt debt left for our children as retards on tv and radio say . If you pay taxes as asked , your responsibility is done and over , this is on the people we elected

  • @ConcerningReality
    @ConcerningReality  Před 2 lety +80

    Oh look, in the day it took me to finish editing this video, the debt has gone up another trillion. It's about to pass 29 trillion. Neat!

    • @henrygustav7948
      @henrygustav7948 Před 2 lety +1

      Daily Treasury statement table 3a as of today July 2022
      Total Redemptions
      $698,746 -today
      $2,627,249 month
      $108,481,593 YTD
      in millions.
      For the year we have paid back 108 trillion USD in US Treasuries easily. No media, no politicians bragging about this. We pay off over 100+ trillion each and every single year and have been paying the national debt for 200 years.

    • @Mrbikertomtom
      @Mrbikertomtom Před rokem +5

      31 trillion now!

    • @DarkepyonX
      @DarkepyonX Před rokem +2

      Just put 30+ and growing with a link to debt clock in description

  • @JayEducation-zs6tw
    @JayEducation-zs6tw Před rokem +15

    Debt is a two-way sword. On the one edge there is a complete desire to pay back the debt if all goes well. The other edge of debt is when we, the people, choose not to pay the debt. When this happens our reliability goes down, and our prices go up. Think about it. In 1965 I could buy a gallon of gas (0.26c), a gallon of milk (0.32c, from a cow), butter (0.16c, 4 cubes), bread, (0.17c), and still had money for Pop, (Shasta 0.5c, others 0.10c, leave the bottle). Now, after all those wars in the Middle East that we "won," and after all those freeways and bridges we sold to the private sector, and all that aide we've been cranking out, do you really think we paid those debts? All it took was to Blow Kennedy's head off.

    • @sys3248
      @sys3248 Před rokem +2

      Exactly. US currency values hanging through the ownership of key patents and OPEC oil trades that exclusively sold in US$. No longer in their industrial outputs and trade surpluses.

  • @gt-gu7rb
    @gt-gu7rb Před 2 měsíci +2

    This is one of the more accurate descriptions of US debt.

  • @radu0015
    @radu0015 Před rokem +8

    It is a negative spiral where they never can get out from. Sooner or later everyone will loose their money.

  • @1esteemed5
    @1esteemed5 Před 2 lety +8

    love this channel

  • @ChiquitaSpeaks
    @ChiquitaSpeaks Před rokem +23

    Putting your military all around the world and then tanking your dollar is a pretty genius strategy to maintain presence to be honest

  • @patriciabalcazar3361
    @patriciabalcazar3361 Před rokem

    Thank you for your information, I really wanted to know more about this

  • @samcash6131
    @samcash6131 Před rokem +56

    Regardless of who owns the debt, governments should not spend beyond their means (or our means). Governments generally care nothing about debt because debt helps create inflation, and inflation provides governments with more income - from of course the struggling middle class.

    • @vajraloka1
      @vajraloka1 Před rokem +19

      Or give BILLIONS to other countries while spending our social security money that we paid in taxes for decades of hard work.

    • @tonycarabellese9981
      @tonycarabellese9981 Před rokem

      The devil owns the debt. And it does matter. Why do you think everything is ass backwards and upside down? When the Federal Reserve which is privately owned and unconstitutional never been audited can print a pallet of money and bribe whoever they want and you would never know a thing that's a problem

    • @tonycarabellese9981
      @tonycarabellese9981 Před rokem

      Zionist devils own the debt. Wake up sleepwalking Americans

    • @pebble100c
      @pebble100c Před rokem +2

      Debt issuance keeps the government in greater control.

    • @colonel1003
      @colonel1003 Před rokem +1

      Paying billions of dollars for transgender “research” in Pakistan

  • @healingbyqurannow
    @healingbyqurannow Před rokem +29

    If you owe yourself you actually owe nothing, they just don't say it.

    • @richardreger6026
      @richardreger6026 Před rokem

      Just an excuse 2 attack social security and Medicare. As the main prob when defense waste alone dwarfs both

    • @williamwaha3193
      @williamwaha3193 Před rokem

      @healingbyqurannow --,,The Government has no money of its own , Our U.S., Government is made up of ' CELLS ' . Each ' Cell Group ' acts Independently of the Federal Government but is supposedly overseen by the White House Administration and the 2 Houses of Congress , plus there are a few Civilian Governmental Watchdogs Groups . The Federal Government ' Borrowed ' money from the Social Security Agency when it actually had a surplus of ' Taxed ' Funds , meaning that the Social Security Agency hadn't paid a large enough payment to all of the Social Security Payees compared to the Social Security Taxes received by the Agency from all of the Eligible Tax Payers . Essentially what happened was that the Payees who were eligible to receive those Tax Based Benefits had died prematurely , leaving a Positive Net Balance within the agency itself . So the U.S., Federal Government ' Took ' that Positive NET BALANCE from the S.S., Agency , So then issued to that Agency ' BONDS ' . When the U.S., Government Pays back those ' Bonds ' it will have to do so with INTEREST . The Social Security Agency doesn't have its own money , All of the Social Security Funding comes Directly from the Tax Payers with a Direct Access Link for each Eligible Tax Payer and How much over How long they Paid in to determine their Future Eligibility for these pre-purchased Benefits .
      As these Separate Governmental ' Cell Groups ' are OWED MONEY by the U.S., Federal Government thereby meaning that indeed the U.S., Federal Government OWES ITSELF money , Large Over Bloated Governments are SO BIG that they really aren't 1 Single Entity . In this case Big Government has more or less 1 thousand different Agencies under Each 1 Single Department Created by the U.S., Federal Government . Where does the U.S., Wildlife Agency come under , is it its own Agency ? The Answer is No , It is in Fact Not its own Agency but rather comes under a ' Parent Agency ' Associated with The U.S., Federal Government . The Federal Wildlife Agency is a Federal Government Police Agency , Do they come under the F.B.I., or the C.I.A., ? No , they do not , they are not Affiliated either of those Federal Policing Agencies . The C.I.A., can not operate domestically , they are our International Policing Agency charged with Policing Americans who go abroad / Leave our Country . The F.B.I., is our Federal National Policing Agency who operates Domestically but only deals with our citizens who are People . The Division of Wildlife deals with our Wild Animal Populations and of course the Humane Society deals with crimes related to our Domestic Animal Friends who are not of the Agricultural variety , supposedly , and of course we have our Department of Agriculture which is supposed to oversee our Agricultural Businesses and Agricultural Animals . So what ' Parent ' Agency does the Department of Wildlife Come under , Do you know ? That is HOW BIG our Federal Government has become ... The U.S., Federal Government EMPLOYS more people than any other Private Corporation or Company does , in fact if you took all Privately Owned and Publicly traded American Corporations and Companies and combined their Employees into 1 large Group , The U.S., Federal Government would still have more Employees than the private sector .

    • @healingbyqurannow
      @healingbyqurannow Před rokem

      @@williamwaha3193 I taught currency trading in wall Street 20 years ago, I also wrote theories about international Economics 18 years ago, Iam telling you the U.S. government can create money, they don't even have to print it.
      The reason this can be done easily is the U.S. currency is the reserve currency and the trade currency of the world.

    • @buddyroeginocchio9105
      @buddyroeginocchio9105 Před rokem

      "Owing yourself" in this case is a fallacy. Social Security is funded by the taxed earnings of employees and employers exactly like 401Ks. People who pay nothing into SS own nothing, people who pay little, own little and so on. A treasury note has a specific holder or owner and it is not the in general "ourselves".

  • @fahedal-ajmi4015
    @fahedal-ajmi4015 Před rokem +5

    If there was any intention to pay off debt they won't keep moving up the ceiling 😂

  • @gregfeatherston1618
    @gregfeatherston1618 Před rokem +3

    The fact that they never taught us this in school just confirms that school is an absolute joke you literally dont learn anything useful

  • @freedomskrieg6799
    @freedomskrieg6799 Před 2 lety +27

    Now explaining the US Unfunded Liabilities along with that would help explain a great deal more.

    • @DarkepyonX
      @DarkepyonX Před rokem

      That's a nonsense term really.
      Everyone who works and can collect retirement is an "Unfunded liability" . It's a buzzword created by think tanks .
      Your household bills are unfunded liabilities or UL till you pay them , in a nutshell every employee is a UL in several ways , Payroll , Retirement, Benefits are all UL , driving a car without insurance is a UL . People like Frank Luntz created the usage of the term and then it hit talk radio . It was literally a nonsense term to detract from Democrats reducing debt and deficit. You never heard anyone leaning left use that term .
      It's as bogus as the Email server hearings that were conducted by at least 8 people who also did their government work on private email servers after General Colin Powell was the first to use it . At the time well over 100 Senators and Congress had them . Gowdy and Chaeffitz both had them on their business cards and they were leading the charge 🤣 More importantly when the election had been decided they packed up the hearings , sealed the records and never mentioned again and now MORE people are using private email servers .

    • @jillpatton3432
      @jillpatton3432 Před rokem +6

      @@DarkepyonX .. unfunded liabilities simply means that Medicaid and Medicare expenses are increasing faster each year than the payroll taxes (from employer and employee) fund these programs.

  • @jeffboothbyr.f.9249
    @jeffboothbyr.f.9249 Před rokem +4

    Love the short to the point video.

  • @mohammadslz8067
    @mohammadslz8067 Před rokem

    Such a great and simple explain , tnx

  • @Roccofan
    @Roccofan Před rokem +1

    Say it with me everyone, “Lock Box! Lock Box! Lock Box!” 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @ernestayo6131
    @ernestayo6131 Před rokem +25

    Even if we wanted to, the US is way past the point of being able to repay the current National debt much less future obligations. Our currency will be destroyed by inflation and those depending on future funding will be left to die when the government defaults. I’m not sure there’ll be anywhere to run as this seem to be a world wide situation.

    • @thejfactor1
      @thejfactor1 Před rokem +1

      That’s not true. It would be practically infeasible politically to run a $1 trillion federal surplus for 31 straight years, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility.

    • @benjaminlehman3221
      @benjaminlehman3221 Před rokem

      It’s easy if we cut spending and didn’t increase the budget for 10 years and allowed the economy to grow naturally. Then allow the budget to grow with the economy

    • @petersack5074
      @petersack5074 Před rokem +1

      Like many Americans, the federal government is shelling out a lot more money to cover interest payments on its debt after a series of Federal Reserve rate hikes over the past year.
      The Treasury Department paid a record $213 billion in interest payments on the national debt in the last quarter of 2022, up $63 billion from the same period a year earlier.
      The fourth-quarter tab was also nearly $30 billion more than in the prior quarter, which is the largest quarterly increase on record, said Jerry Dwyer, an economics professor emeritus at Clemson University.
      Borrowing costs are expected to become an increasingly heavy burden in coming years. The Congressional Budget Office is set to provide its latest estimate on Wednesday.
      The surge is due mainly to the Federal Reserve raising interest rates by 4.25% between March and December. The central bank increased the rate another quarter point in February.
      Until recently, it cost the federal government very little to issue debt to finance its operations.
      “It was almost free money,” Dwyer said. “You could borrow a trillion dollars, and if you financed it with Treasury bills, you paid almost no interest. But interest rates weren’t going to stay there forever.”
      The national debt is once again in the spotlight now that the US has hit its $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, forcing Congress to take action or risk a catastrophic default. The Treasury Department is taking extraordinary measures to allow the government to continue paying its bills in full and on time, which it expects to last at least until early June.
      The spike in interest payments also contributed to the federal government hitting the debt ceiling that much faster. And it adds to the pressure on Congress to raise taxes, cut spending or allow the government to borrow more to meet all its obligations.

  • @ConcerningReality
    @ConcerningReality  Před 2 lety +47

    I made this video nearly 4 months ago at this point and the US's debt is already over 30 trillion. Neat.

    • @warriorz9451
      @warriorz9451 Před 2 lety

      I think we can say is that they owe more than that. Add the total debt. What they promise but can't pay

    • @jamesgough11able
      @jamesgough11able Před 2 lety +4

      30 trillion. Trillion as with a T. It will never be paid off. The credit/debt system is a joke and is broken in my opinion. Fun fact want to know how much 1 trillion seconds is? It's roughly 136,000 years. So yeah that helps put trillions in perspective. 30 trillion will never be paid off. We need a new system. This system is broken and clearly doesn't work. The purchasing power of the dollar has been declining since it's inception.

    • @henrygustav7948
      @henrygustav7948 Před 2 lety +1

      Hello, the US National debt is nothing but a record of all the USD the Federal government has spent, not taxed yet which sits in savings accounts. In order to pay back these Treasury bonds, the Fed debits a savings account and credits a checking account thru the use of a keyboard. The National debt = assets for the economy. It functions as our net money supply.
      As economist L. Randall Wray sums it here, “if we want our private sector to save, which almost everybody agrees is a good idea, the public sector must run a deficit.” And what happens when the public sector runs a surplus? The US has done so 7 times, and Wray has an answer: “The first 6 of those were followed by our only 6 depressions.” And the 7th was during the Clinton years, which led to a recession in the early 2000s and then a global financial collapse in 2008.
      1817-1821 debt paid down & budget in surplus (depression began 1819)
      1823-1836 debt paid down & budget in surplus (depression began in 1837)
      1852-1857 debt paid down & budget in surplus (depression began in 1857)
      1867-1873 debt paid down & budget in surplus (depression began in 1873)
      1880-1893 debt paid down & budget in surplus
      (depression began in 1893)
      1920-1930 debt paid down and budget in surplus
      (depression began in 1929
      1998-2001 debt paid down and budget in surplus (recession 2001 2008)

    • @henrygustav7948
      @henrygustav7948 Před 2 lety

      JFK and James Tobin Nobel prize winning economist.
      That the Heller council was able to be so influential with Kennedy is attributable in part to the tutorial function it played in his economic education. This is well illustrated by James Tobin's account of one of his sessions with the president.
      He wanted to talk about economics, economic theory indeed, He wanted to ask me some questions, but it turned out he wanted to give his own answers to them too and see if I agreed, almost as if he were showing how well he had learned his lessons. So he did most of the talking, and my own interventions were largely to confirm that his own answers to his questions were right. There were two subjects; the budget deficit and gold. On the first he said, "Is there any economic limit to the deficit? I know of course about the political limits. People say you can't increase the national debt too fast or too much. We're always answering that the debt isn't growing relative to national income? There isn't, is there? Well, what is the limit?" I said the only limit is really inflation. He grabbed at that. "That's right, isn't it? The deficit can be any size, the debt can be any size, provided they don't cause inflation. Everything else is just talk."
      Alan Greenspan: “Central banks can issue currency, a non-interest-bearing claim on the government, effectively without limit. A government cannot become insolvent with respect to obligations in its own currency.”
      St. Louis Federal Reserve: “As the sole manufacturer of dollars, whose debt is denominated in dollars, the U.S. government can never become insolvent, i.e., unable to pay its bills. In this sense, the government is not dependent on credit markets to remain operational.
      "The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default" said Greenspan on NBC's Meet the Press
      "Alan Greenspan: "I wouldn't say the pay-as-you-go benefits are insecure in the sense that there is nothing to prevent the Federal Government from creating as much money as it wants and paying it to somebody."
      Cspan- How can we spend 6 trillion dollars and all the other money Biden wants to spend? How can we afford it?
      Congressmen John Yarmuth House budget committee chair - We can afford it because we determine how much money is in the system. The Federal government is not like any other user of currency. Not any local state or Government. We issue our own currency and we can spend enough to meet the needs of the American people. The only constraint being that we do have to worry about inflation from that spending. Now so many people say We have so much debt, our grandchildren, its going to be on their backs and so forth, that is not how the way it works, and I think the American people need an education on how the monetary system does work. I remember going back when Paul Ryan was chair of the budget committee and even before all that, all of these forecasts about gloom and doom about how we are going to accumulate so much debt and interest rates are going to crowd out all other spending, we basically doubled the national debt from the recession in 2009 until last year before the pandemic. None of things that people warned would happen happened. We didn't have inflation, we had record low interest rates than higher interest rates and the dollar was trading at normal levels vis a vis other currencies. A lot of economists have begun to say maybe we have been thinking about debt in an entirely different way, Even Fed chair Jay Powell has basically said we have the Fiscal space to do what we need to do right now to make the investments we need to make to build the kind of economy for the future we all hope we will have.

    • @crazystuff9899
      @crazystuff9899 Před rokem +1

      Don’t think so. I think the debt is not scary, what’s more scary is the rate at which it’s keep on rising. There will be a time when another currency will takeover. It could be crypto. It could be some other country with better financial system.

  • @TL-io3fd
    @TL-io3fd Před rokem

    The budget deficit is primarily financed through borrowing from the public. As of September 30, 2019, debt held by the public, excluding accrued interest, was $16.8 trillion.

  • @stever197037
    @stever197037 Před rokem +1

    When the Pentagon says it doesn't know where trillions of dollars went every decade.
    It would seem that they are responsible for the budget not being balanced.
    Also responsible for all of the national debt

  • @mosesmanaka8109
    @mosesmanaka8109 Před rokem +5

    Excellent video, well explained and to the point. 👊🏿👍🏿

    • @robertfoster7807
      @robertfoster7807 Před rokem

      this video is bullshit it does not explain the real truth

  • @frodobaggins9474
    @frodobaggins9474 Před rokem +6

    It can not be paid off, what i think is that one day something huge, financially devastating will happen globally and all the debts would be forgiven we start afresh.

    • @crypteiansentry1922
      @crypteiansentry1922 Před rokem

      Nobody is going to forgive the USA for 31.8 trillion dollars when they crash. It will ruin every country that remains on the basis of using the USD as its form of global currency. Those that choose wisely and join BRICS will not suffer such humiliation and debilitating financial crisis.
      The only satisfaction open to countries like mine who will be like the band on the Titanic, is that those of us who are smart and have money invested in another currency will enjoy watching the death of the USD and its torturous role in global hegemony since 1973 as it flounders in its death rolls like a snake in a fire.

  • @massoudzahedi
    @massoudzahedi Před rokem +2

    Never, any government would be able to pay off such a huge, massive, unreachable debt...

  • @Bushman9
    @Bushman9 Před rokem +1

    Debt ceiling? Ha… they should call it the debt elevator!

  • @MrPrimoPR
    @MrPrimoPR Před rokem +6

    Has anybody ever tough about why it’s not really feasible to live without debt? Money is consumed faster than it can be made. The only thing that keeps the modern world moving forward is trust. Some countries have more , some less and some none.

  • @davidlaw9686
    @davidlaw9686 Před rokem +5

    If there's no consequence, every country can print their own money.

    • @jeffhurtson5211
      @jeffhurtson5211 Před rokem

      The US has enjoyed the privilege of being the worlds reserve currency, which is what allowed the US to print and barrow as much as it does. Most other countries would have collapsed by now.

    • @davidlaw9686
      @davidlaw9686 Před rokem

      @@jeffhurtson5211 that's true. But the world had taken this long to realize the inequitable situation, that they had been had.

  • @randyd9805
    @randyd9805 Před rokem +1

    "Do you think we will ever pay it off?" Not a snowball's chance in hell!!!

  • @GlocknessMonster1738
    @GlocknessMonster1738 Před rokem +2

    And yet I somehow owe $200 in taxes this year?🤣 I’ve never been in debt of any kind in my life and they want money from me now? Classic🤣

  • @perer005
    @perer005 Před 2 lety +7

    The bonds themselves really don't care if the current owner is from the US, Germany or China, they will need to be repayed on the due date regardless. Giving the impression that bonds held by the US is "loaning to yourself" is very misleading.

    • @joeoreilly1479
      @joeoreilly1479 Před 2 lety

      If America just print money and borrow it out. Then they are really borrowing out paper money not worth nothing. How do they verify that they are lending out real money .Or are the the banking corporation of the world with no check or balance.

    • @perer005
      @perer005 Před 2 lety +1

      @@joeoreilly1479 Countries don't "print money and borrow it out". The central banks buy or sell assets on the market like everyone else. If the value of a countries currency decreases then a central bank may need to adapt the assets they are trying to sell, like increasing the interest rates on the bonds being sold.
      The "real money" you are talking about is most likely no longer being used.

    • @joeoreilly1479
      @joeoreilly1479 Před 2 lety

      @@perer005 yea but who does the checks and balances .we know about the bonds market. And Governments of so called state borrowing money and buying a bond from such and such when they could go and borrow it from the people of the state who have money lock up in the banks .Getting no interest surely that's the first place a state should go is to the people .no they go to a bond market . giving big conglomerate bigger interest. corruption is ripe and always has been.we can dress it up no matter way you like.You can't start a bank because of government laws that are against the people but you can bring in vultures funds to buy up every building standing .homes ect you name it they can buy it but we the people have no voice Most of the politician of any country in the world are millionaires. Their interest in first place is money .So tell me do or should we trust them .Look at the interest rate now when prices are sky rocketing not because of anything to do with Europe but because of government borrowing because of the Ukraine problem now how does that work. They deliberately made this problem knowing it's going to break the people into right and left. Problem are made not solved but by the people. But now we the mass have had enough. Time for those who see to speak out. I'm not ranting to you if it sounds like I am I apologise. The media have made those who speak out. To be right wing or racist and label everyone with an opinion So what they sow they will reap .

  • @jaysonfabiyi942
    @jaysonfabiyi942 Před 2 lety +12

    There's still something I don't understand, when foreign countries come to cash in their bonds, are they given physical U.S. dollars? what would the U.S. actually give back to China in exchange for the bonds?

    • @ConcerningReality
      @ConcerningReality  Před 2 lety +8

      Usually it's just a payment through a bank account, but they would get USD.

    • @jaysonfabiyi942
      @jaysonfabiyi942 Před 2 lety

      @@ConcerningReality ok thanks so much for answering

    • @DavidEVogel
      @DavidEVogel Před 2 lety +3

      when foreign countries come to cash in their bonds, are they given physical U.S. dollars?
      Yes. Treasury securities must be purchased with USD and redeemed for USD.

    • @henrygustav7948
      @henrygustav7948 Před 2 lety +1

      They debit the savings accounts of foreign countries who have an account at the Federal reserve called a securities account and credit that countries checking account called a reserve account. Voila, paid back. The US Fed govt pays back 100+ trillion in Treasuries each and every year.

    • @thinkcat01
      @thinkcat01 Před rokem

      Jayson Fabiyi Give them US dollars.

  • @lorenfranz3173
    @lorenfranz3173 Před 2 měsíci +1

    The United States Public Debt is a big concern for a lot of people, and they have a right to be concerned, but not for the reasons they believe or have been told. No foreign country controls the majority of our debt, China has no real interest in seeing the US dollar collapse because if our currency fails, theirs fails too.

  • @mohammadtariqikram8482
    @mohammadtariqikram8482 Před 2 lety +7

    I still didn't get the idea, who should the US government pay this amount of money to?

    • @kgprasad100
      @kgprasad100 Před 2 lety +18

      US Dollar is world coupon which everybody uses to buy sell things .. say Pakistan buys saudi oil in US dollar coupons .. So Uncle Sam can print infinite coupons and buy Infinite Stuff from rest of world and not work a day .and inflate their currency and deflate(devalue) other currencies and enjoy good clothes suits made by poor bangladeshi, indian , pakistani and chinese workers

    • @DavidEVogel
      @DavidEVogel Před 2 lety +2

      Whoever holds the US Treasury securities.

  • @smetljesm2276
    @smetljesm2276 Před rokem +3

    When dollar loses its reserve currency status the misic stops for "owning" their own debt and other countries will not be easily convinced to loan them any money...
    Now you know what's up in the world 😅

  • @rogerthat487
    @rogerthat487 Před rokem +1

    So if everyone sat around the table and divied up their chips, who would be the net winner?

  • @itzopsniper1293
    @itzopsniper1293 Před rokem +2

    so.... what if the debt isn't payed?

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      @JamesWilson-ep8vm Před rokem

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  • @radar0412
    @radar0412 Před 2 lety +6

    What does a National Debt Doomsday look like? Or is it like the 2009 Mortgage Crisis? That is, you have to experience it first in order to understand it.

  • @colorgreen7
    @colorgreen7 Před rokem +2

    Who's gonna pay for it? The Decepticons ?

  • @glennt1962
    @glennt1962 Před hodinou

    Great explanation, thank you. I hope the rest of the country sees this.

  • @entertainmentjoke2871
    @entertainmentjoke2871 Před 2 lety +35

    I can relate that! I always accumulate the debt from credit card by spending future money, borrow from credit card to pay off current debt from current credit card.

    • @silentwatcher1455
      @silentwatcher1455 Před rokem +3

      You are heading for trouble.

    • @thulomanchay
      @thulomanchay Před rokem +10

      You using one credit card to pay off another credit card spending, that is in essence what the US is also doing.
      They borrow to pay off past loans, and repeat.

    • @araara4746
      @araara4746 Před rokem +9

      that is ponzi scheme...

    • @intello8953
      @intello8953 Před rokem +9

      Thank God I’m 30 years old and I’ve never touched or been tempted to have a credit card. If I don’t have the money I’m not gonna pay for it simple, even in an emergency I don’t mind living on the bare minimum to get my feet back up. Rather then going in debt for something temporary 🤷🏾‍♂️

    • @silentwatcher1455
      @silentwatcher1455 Před rokem +5

      By doing that you are buying time but you are increasing your debt. You are headed for huge financial disaster .

  • @willtrap4food698
    @willtrap4food698 Před rokem +8

    I think we’ll pay it off when we default on our debt

    • @ConcerningReality
      @ConcerningReality  Před rokem

      Seeming like the likely option - can we declare chapter 11?

    • @lchansocal
      @lchansocal Před rokem

      @@ConcerningReality Chapter 11 is to protect someone from lender collecting the money by US authority. No one in the world could come to US and demanding returning the $ with our military muscle to back us up. The only consequence we are facing is nobody would trust us anymore.

  • @davidwalsh6608
    @davidwalsh6608 Před rokem +1

    The truely amazing thing is if you look at the 2022 10 year budget projection it saw £25T in 2023 at 2% interest and a $1.4T deficit. We actually have $31T at 4% interest, thats an extra $1.4T interest to pay. So in four years the interest paying debt will be £40T and rising fast say lenders now want 5% interest due to higher risk we will be spending $2T on interest alone thats 50% of teh country's tax base. So the deficits and interest rates will rise higher into bankruptcy.

  • @Zaro2008
    @Zaro2008 Před rokem

    So can you just cash in these bonds or how does it work?

  • @TerryChimes123
    @TerryChimes123 Před rokem +3

    The more it owes, the more expensive it is to live and survive.

  • @rudygizara1887
    @rudygizara1887 Před rokem +2

    the real question is, what would happen if nation failed to pay its debt?

    • @jackprescott9652
      @jackprescott9652 Před 6 měsíci

      Actually nothing. Because the Government would fail to pay itself.

  • @DaPopeOfDope101
    @DaPopeOfDope101 Před rokem +1

    If they owe their citizens about a third of the debt, that would be a little over $10.3 trillion. Divide that by how many citizens live in the U.S. (Roughly 332 million people) and you’d get a little over $31,100 per capita. (Not including debts to the Fed, foreign investors or its own institutions obviously) So in a sense, the U.S. government owes each of its citizens $31k. Yet they make us give up 20%-40% of their salary to the IRS so they can spend recklessly on whatever they want with no consequences (at least for the time being) wow…

  • @Commander-leo
    @Commander-leo Před rokem

    Oh yes video that will straight get to the point that isn’t long

  • @chrishouseman4781
    @chrishouseman4781 Před rokem +12

    The fact that there's any debt at all is ridiculous the government should have to balance the budget just like every household and company has to do

    • @jameswalker590
      @jameswalker590 Před rokem

      And you should get a list (electronic so there's minimal cost) of where the money is going.

  • @bradleytguthrie929
    @bradleytguthrie929 Před rokem +4

    This is extremely positive. I thought the national debt was money borrowed to fund ourselves. Now I better understand its effects on the US economy and the spending will destroy us.

  • @paulring86
    @paulring86 Před rokem +2

    All debt to the "Federal" Reserve should be immediately be cancelled and is illegitimate.

  • @ajford-arausa8328
    @ajford-arausa8328 Před rokem

    Thank you this make my mind at easy

  • @BestOfTate23
    @BestOfTate23 Před 2 lety +5

    Isn’t debt supposed to be paid back though? They never pay back a single dime, just rack up more debt. How would they go about paying off such a debt? Also, it’s not really a debt if you owe yourself? Whole thing’s so confusing

    • @ConcerningReality
      @ConcerningReality  Před 2 lety +6

      The debt is consistently paid back to the people that bought the bonds, in our current situation debt continues to go up because new debt is being taken out faster than old debt is being paid off, which just means that the size of future bond payments will go up.

    • @surajgiri3828
      @surajgiri3828 Před 2 lety +10

      sounds like a ponzi scheme

    • @aliehudson6796
      @aliehudson6796 Před 2 lety +2

      @@surajgiri3828 it is

    • @henrygustav7948
      @henrygustav7948 Před 2 lety

      You are on the right track, it is NOT a debt if you owe yourself as you can not "owe yourself". All Money is an IOU/debt
      Hello, the US National debt is nothing but a record of all the USD the Federal government has spent, not taxed yet which sits in savings accounts. In order to pay back these Treasury bonds, the Fed debits a savings account and credits a checking account thru the use of a keyboard. The National debt = assets for the economy. It functions as our net money supply.
      As economist L. Randall Wray sums it here, “if we want our private sector to save, which almost everybody agrees is a good idea, the public sector must run a deficit.” And what happens when the public sector runs a surplus? The US has done so 7 times, and Wray has an answer: “The first 6 of those were followed by our only 6 depressions.” And the 7th was during the Clinton years, which led to a recession in the early 2000s and then a global financial collapse in 2008.
      1817-1821 debt paid down & budget in surplus (depression began 1819)
      1823-1836 debt paid down & budget in surplus (depression began in 1837)
      1852-1857 debt paid down & budget in surplus (depression began in 1857)
      1867-1873 debt paid down & budget in surplus (depression began in 1873)
      1880-1893 debt paid down & budget in surplus
      (depression began in 1893)
      1920-1930 debt paid down and budget in surplus
      (depression began in 1929
      1998-2001 debt paid down and budget in surplus (recession 2001 2008)

    • @DarkepyonX
      @DarkepyonX Před rokem

      @@henrygustav7948 so true so true , when Clinton balanced the budget and made a surplus it sent alot of the world plunging into financial chaos and hell .
      This is my own theory but Terrorism against the US was near non existent till Clinton , I'm pretty sure alot of these groups were funded via bonds and suddenly we bankrupted them and they came at us . Zz

  • @Aaron-8989
    @Aaron-8989 Před 2 lety +4

    Those numbers are going to infinity ♾ and beyond but what happens if the US pays it all off?

  • @jstgamerz04
    @jstgamerz04 Před rokem +1

    Aliens: Now gimme my money back 🚬🗿

  • @JT_Williams
    @JT_Williams Před 8 měsíci

    Can you explain how the likes of the UK can buy US debt to help effect the value of thr pound of visa versa for any of the countries mentioned?

  • @goatface6602
    @goatface6602 Před rokem +8

    There is no way to avoid default. It’s just a matter of how. Outright default, or hyperinflation. Prepare accordingly.

    • @gsp49
      @gsp49 Před rokem

      After the war, everything will be fixed.

  • @anthonyminimum
    @anthonyminimum Před rokem +3

    I genuinely believe the only way the United States can pay off its debts is by *LESS GOVERNMENT SPENDING* and slowing down investment into a halt until the debt is fully paid off

    • @newagain9964
      @newagain9964 Před rokem +1

      If gov ceases spending it tanks the dollar. Y’all have a oversimplified understanding of money and economics. Not ur fault. The education system did its job. 🤷‍♂️

    • @sonyjoseph5426
      @sonyjoseph5426 Před rokem +1

      3 choices politicians have
      1. Reduce spending
      2.raise taxes
      3. Raise the debt ceiling
      Care to guess which choose those blue / red bandana wearing gangsters default to ?

    • @jaehongsong4904
      @jaehongsong4904 Před 7 měsíci

      That will be the end of USA

  • @therandomcommenter6629
    @therandomcommenter6629 Před rokem +1

    I see so it's not going to be a sudden economic collapse where the US has to pay an absurd trillions amount of dollars in a single payment but rather a slow death spiral where the amount of money in those trillions that needs to be paid repeatedly increase as well as the total owed

  • @guillermomichael6578
    @guillermomichael6578 Před rokem

    It is much more complicated but it was well explained in general.
    This has been done ( the rise of the debt I mean ) for a long time . And i think it can be considered almost as money invested without much risk. If is not done , the risks and consequences of that would be much worse than doing it I think .

  • @juangerena3
    @juangerena3 Před 2 lety +4

    The debt will never be paid it’s to high

    • @DavidEVogel
      @DavidEVogel Před 2 lety

      Get you facts right. The US Treasury has never defaulted on its debt.

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  • @universityofknowledge5848

    Lease and loan act ??????What happens when currencies are no longer accepted?????(Liquidation)

  • @tomb5552
    @tomb5552 Před 2 měsíci +1

    When you buy Chinese products, which is almost everything. They take their horde of dollars and buy US Bonds. It’s the same thing with Honda and Toyota, they buy bonds. If all the money was spent in America, and businesses were paying taxes on it. America could pay off 1/3 of its National Debt.

  • @davesims7917
    @davesims7917 Před 2 lety +12

    There was a lot of words being used but nothing was being said…
    Why would anyone think a bond is a good investment when the dollar is guaranteed to inflate by constantly increasing the money supply?
    I think foreign governments are smarter than that so I think there’s a little more to it than you explained.

    • @ConcerningReality
      @ConcerningReality  Před 2 lety +8

      This was a fairly basic background to government bonds and debt. If you’re really curious about why someone would buy bonds in more detail, here’s a good article from Investopedia on treasury bonds as investments: www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/041515/treasury-bond-good-investment-retirement.asp
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    • @DavidEVogel
      @DavidEVogel Před 2 lety +1

      Why would anyone think a bond is a good investment
      Because it is the most secure bond in the world.

    • @henrygustav7948
      @henrygustav7948 Před 2 lety +1

      Increasing the money supply has nothing to do with inflation. Zero, nada, zip, zilch. We are off the gold standard. The money supply expands and contracts every single day. The money supply has increased by record amounts since 2010-2020 and the Fed has been trying to get inflation to 2 percent and they couldn't even do that. So no increasing money supply has nothing to do with inflation.
      Inflation is you paying more and someone else getting more. Look to corporate profits in a pandemic and you will be closer to understanding inflation.

    • @samuelhorrocks9187
      @samuelhorrocks9187 Před 2 lety

      @@henrygustav7948 Look up when the us got off the gold standard. It hasn't been on it for years.

    • @henrygustav7948
      @henrygustav7948 Před 2 lety

      @@samuelhorrocks9187 correct since 1933 domestically then 1971 internationally when France tried to demand gold. That is when Nixon ended convertibility completely.

  • @RioGadde
    @RioGadde Před 2 lety +3

    It’s not going pay its debts, will definitely look for alternatives or other words worst case scenario will collapse or bankruptcy!

    • @DavidEVogel
      @DavidEVogel Před 2 lety +1

      Get your facts right. The US Treasury has never defaulted on its debt.

    • @RioGadde
      @RioGadde Před 2 lety

      @@DavidEVogel What i mean is, if US is keep going same manner the way it’s now, the debt crisis will even deepen where there won’t be more options left! I know we are not such big persons to discuss! But consequences will be disastrous n terrible! Even though if it won’t default they make some other nonsense options to get out of it. I don’t think so because I know from5 Trillions. it’s going from 5 trillions to now 40 trillions. It’s same to any person or house holders!

  • @satyambhartee3189
    @satyambhartee3189 Před rokem

    It's interesting, it's not the people who have any issues but eventually the institutions should have issues but rather they are supporting their own demise

  • @Orthane
    @Orthane Před rokem +1

    "23.1 Trillion in debt"
    Biden: *Are you challenging me?*

    • @ConcerningReality
      @ConcerningReality  Před rokem

      Lol yeah none of our recent presidents have been great at lowering the debt. 45 holds the record

  • @BurdenofTheMighty
    @BurdenofTheMighty Před 2 lety +7

    In America, you are either a lender or a borrower but never neither

  • @dynamike476
    @dynamike476 Před rokem +3

    I was going to say “No, it’s currently at 31T” and then I saw the year…
    *DESTROY THE FEDERAL RESERVE*

  • @Xilir2009
    @Xilir2009 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Congress says how much the US spends. And KNOW that that spending is way to much and will hit the debt ceiling THEY create

  • @ch34pskate16
    @ch34pskate16 Před rokem

    Links to the source of the information would be great.

  • @photonic
    @photonic Před 2 lety +7

    What's going to happen when the government can't afford the debt payments anymore? There are a lot of ways this could go, and none of them look good to me, but I'm not an economist. If the US economy suffers, a lot of the world will suffer with it, so there's a lot of incentive for many countries to help keep the US solvent. In the long run, are there any viable alternatives to defaulting on debt payments and/or massive inflation? What are the experts saying?

    • @ConcerningReality
      @ConcerningReality  Před 2 lety +5

      The government can always afford payments, it prints its own money. That said, One strain of thought is that we can run endless debt, check out my MMT. The more conservative thought would be we need to lower our overall debt and start running budget surpluses to bring our levels down.

    • @photonic
      @photonic Před 2 lety +3

      @@ConcerningReality The thing that worries me about printing more money is that we'll eventually need enough of it that it'll have a significant impact on inflation. Too much inflation obviously has some problems, one of which is that it could hurt the government's credit rating and cause the cost of debt to go up, which could lead to everything spiraling out of control.

    • @carlhammond183
      @carlhammond183 Před 2 lety +3

      The global currency reserve is the problem. Fiat currency ALAWAYS comes to an end.............

    • @VCschwabby
      @VCschwabby Před 2 lety +1

      I used to be appalled by the amount of federal spending, but after some thought…. we have the huge military, and I don’t think we could have been able to develop the technology, or attain the massive amount of machinery (tanks, hummers, choppers, carriers, planes, etc.) without taking the US off the gold standard in 1971. We needed to print money to develop the military. The national debt in the US is rising to a point where I don’t believe we could afford to pay the interest much less start paying it down. The amount owed is going up 100 million $ an hour. So…. if we didn’t print money and stayed on the gold standard, our military defense would not be even close to what it is now. Would Americans be safe? Would we constantly be in wars because we wouldn’t carry such a big stick so to speak, and other countries maybe more likely to try to take the US over. I’m not worried about the draft like my parents had to be. So… IMO, FJB but I can see(if my theory is correct) why he is like, F**k it. Go nuts spend whatever! Build back better b!tche$, where is the bathroom!

    • @MrLaonation
      @MrLaonation Před 2 lety

      When America shut down bc of covid the world was fine but when China shut down 1/3 of the world stopped normal day life who really controlled the world most the good come from China

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  • @Dylan.t113
    @Dylan.t113 Před rokem

    1:25 what exactly are they funding??

  • @robertdean6222
    @robertdean6222 Před rokem

    I have some government I bonds that I’m disappointing I ever purchased because when I do cash them in, they will be taxed. 🤷🏻‍♂️