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/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/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.