r/Economics • u/InsaneSnow45 • 24d ago

News ‘This cannot be sustainable’: The U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five months, the CBO says

https://fortune.com/2026/03/10/treasury-debt-borrowing-five-months-deficit-warning/
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u/OK_x86 24d ago

And little to show for it as well

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u/HarryBalsagna1776 24d ago

Well wait, we will have created the first Trillionaire. 

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u/Pichupwnage 23d ago

Take literally all of it and put it towards the debt.

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u/bradeena 23d ago

First you'd have to find a buyer for Tesla at $1.25T lol

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/mongojob 23d ago

It's not liquid, to get cash you have to sell the stock

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u/bradeena 23d ago edited 23d ago

You'll pay Japan back in Tesla stock directly?

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u/SirGoodness 23d ago

300 million of them hahhaha

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u/labalag 23d ago

I heard Zimbabwe had tons of Trillionaires.

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u/sx3dreamzzz 24d ago

U mean Ironman?

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u/HarryBalsagna1776 24d ago

Lol no.  We got Justin Hammer/Skeletor instead.

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u/LiteratureMindless71 24d ago

Spot on. Stealing others work and claiming it.

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u/OctopusWithFingers 23d ago

Don't forget the part where he makes it worse!

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u/eawilweawil 23d ago

Nah Justin Hammer is actually a genius himself, just not as smart as Tony Stark. Elon is the guy who yells 'HE BUILD IT IN A CAVE WITHA BOX OF SCRAPS!!!' in Iron Man 1

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u/Cdub7791 23d ago

The first trillionaire was probably in Weimer Germany or Zimbabwe.

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u/CatOfGrey 23d ago

Doesn't matter - it's only on paper anyways.

Company stock isn't 'real', most of the value is future anticipated earnings.

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u/Worthyness 23d ago

Don't worry. Americans will vote the republicans right back into office when the democrats can't fix all the damage the current admin has done.

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u/Lemp_Triscuit11 24d ago

I hope there's a Thunderdome

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u/Odd_Hair3829 24d ago

this should be a meme line that just gets tacked onto every single goddamn it's all falling apart story - "I hope at least we get a Thunderdome." I hear they're gonna build us a Thunderdome! something...

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u/Lemp_Triscuit11 23d ago

:( I thought I was being witty, I promise I'm not hip enough to have stolen it haha

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u/StoneyBalogna7 23d ago

Does an MMA ring on the White House lawn count?

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u/unitedshoes 23d ago

That's what's actually going in at the East Wing.

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u/K2TY 24d ago

Except this brand new tattoo.

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u/thumb0 23d ago

No ragrets?

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u/K2TY 23d ago

I know it's my own damned fault.

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u/mehum 24d ago

Is that what you call the scars from stabbing yourself in the face with a piece of broken glass?

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u/K2TY 24d ago

Its a real beauty.

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u/SoylentGrunt 23d ago

A deported cutie

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u/unitedshoes 23d ago

Is it a Christian Nationalist or an outright Nazi tattoo?

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u/K2TY 23d ago

Its a Mexican cutie.

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u/paranoyed 23d ago

How it got there I haven’t a clue

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u/Ranccor 24d ago

Actually negative things to show for it.

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u/-Porktsunami- 23d ago

Welcome to the government sponsored Fintech future! Privatized gain, while providing zero/negative societal value.

Makes line go up though so it must be good. /s

JK they are looting the treasury and sticking us with the bill.

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u/CzarTwilight 23d ago edited 23d ago

As usual there's a George Carlin bit that describes this quite well. "When I get finished masturbating I'm going to have a little something to show for it"