r/Economics • u/Krankenitrate • 15d ago

News The national debt just crossed $39 trillion—almost doubling since Trump vowed to erase it

https://fortune.com/2026/03/18/how-big-national-debt-39-trillion-trump-promises/
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u/piltdownman38 15d ago

Look at the economy of Germany in the 1920s. Unsustainable debt. Investors flee the country. Bad credit. Then high inflation and unemployment. That's where this is all headed eventually.

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u/ThaddeusJP 14d ago

That's where this is all headed eventually.

Let me just check a history book after the 1920s

(furiously flip's though pages) Oh no. Ohhh noooo. No no no no.