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Finance Professor Says $34 Trillion in Federal Debt Could Trigger Meltdown, Derail the Next Administration
The Epoch Times ^ | 3/4/24 | Stephen Katte

Posted on 03/04/2024 4:33:40 AM PST by CFW

A finance expert is sounding the alarm over America’s growing debt, predicting the $34 trillion burden could trigger a meltdown as early as next year if more isn’t done to curb spending.

According to Joao Gomes, a senior vice dean for research and academic initiatives at Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, the United States’ growing debt could upset global financial markets in 2025 should the next president announce a raft of expensive policies following an election win in 2024.

“The lack of concern by the media and politicians about the U.S. Federal Debt is shocking,” he said in a March 3 post on social media platform X. “We can probably live with current levels. But not with its projected increases over the next 20 or 30 years. We need to be talking about this.” In an interview with Fortune, Mr. Gomes said the spiraling debt could “derail the next administration” and cause all sorts of issues in the market.

“If they come up with plans for large tax cuts or another big fiscal stimulus, the markets could rebel, interest rates could just spike right there and we would have a crisis in 2025,” he said.

“It could very well happen. I’m very confident by the end of the decade one way or another, we will be there.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: debt; deficit; economy; election; finances; inflation; trump
When Trump wins, the media will immediately stop pretending the economy is great, the BLS will stop releasing phony numbers, and the Feds will stop propping up the markets. At that point it all comes crashing down. The deep state then starts WWIII to cover up their actions. (Or some version the above).

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Finance Professor Says $34 Trillion in Federal Debt Could Trigger Meltdown, Derail the Next Administration

1 posted on 03/04/2024 4:33:40 AM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

Ya don’t say.


2 posted on 03/04/2024 4:34:19 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: CFW

“...Derail the Next Administration...”

Well, isn’t that the plan?


3 posted on 03/04/2024 4:43:34 AM PST by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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To: CFW

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4 posted on 03/04/2024 4:44:46 AM PST by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: CFW

I think the answer to this is to pay for more war and bring in millions of 3rd world people. /s


5 posted on 03/04/2024 4:48:51 AM PST by dforest
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To: CFW

It’s very clear.

If somehow Trump manages to prevail, Deep State is ensuring that it leaves his admin at the helm of a wrecked, smoking hulk of a ship of state.

Trump will then have to make some hard choices to right it.

And Deep State will be counting on us to jump ship.

I, for one, won’t be making like a rat.


6 posted on 03/04/2024 4:50:21 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: CFW

>> “We can probably live with current levels.”

Translation: Biden OK!

>> Mr. Gomes said the spiraling debt could “derail the next administration” and cause all sorts of issues in the market. “If they come up with plans for large tax cuts...”

Translation: Orange Man BAD!!!

These liars are so predictable.


7 posted on 03/04/2024 4:52:26 AM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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“If they come up with plans for large tax cuts or another big fiscal stimulus,“

If? This guy knows damn well that that’s a likelihood if Trump gets in. He wants to try to blame a dead certain attempt to expand the economy for the results of decades if ignoring fiscal sanity.


8 posted on 03/04/2024 4:53:12 AM PST by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: CFW; 9YearLurker; SMARTY; sauropod; dforest; mewzilla; Nervous Tick; TalBlack

I read recently that our debt is increasing by $1 Trillion dollars every 100 days.

I know the Keynesians out there think this is just fine, no big deal, but it is unsustainable.

After the crash, one would think that it would forever discredit the policies of John Maynard Keynes and drive a wooden stake through his black-hearted theories, but...it won’t.

Marxism continues to thrive, after the ideology starved and executed hundreds of millions of its own adherents in the 20th Century up to today, showing that P.T. Barnum was right when he said a sucker is born every minute.

There will never be a shortage of perpetual motion machines, miracle cure elixirs, or get rich quick schemes...even after the ultimate get-rich-quick scheme goes belly up on a global scale.

They will still believe “it wasn’t done right”, and those people will think they can “do it right”.


9 posted on 03/04/2024 4:57:03 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: dforest

> I think the answer to this is to pay for more war and bring in millions of 3rd world people. /s <

And be sure to waste billions of dollars to fight non-existent Climate Change.


10 posted on 03/04/2024 4:58:57 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: CFW

Assuming two unlikely events happen:

1. Trump is allowed to be elected in November
2. They wait until *after* that time to crash the economy further

Those who control our economy, and stock market, and election outcomes, and media will (in between events #1 and #2 above) put out a bunch of stories along the lines of “Grrrr, Trump is getting all the credit for Biden’s wonderful economy!!!”

THEN comes the crash.

In reality, 2024 is likely to be more like 2008. The economy already sucked as of late 2007, the downward spiral beginning when racist Democrats destroyed the “mortgage sector” by demanding under penalty of law that banks lend tons of money to thoroughly unqualified ghetto racists (money which had zero chance of ever being paid back) so that they could invade nice suburban areas even further.

In September and October the puppetmasters crashed the stock market as hard as they could, which was quite hard indeed.

Then the puppetmasters’ media wing made sure that you knew exactly who to blame (George W. Bush and all Republicans) by the time you had to vote in November, 2008.

I figured they’d do exactly the same thing in 2016 (there was no need at all in 2012) but they didn’t. The same Democrat/puppetmaster overconfidence that led to them failing to crash the economy in ‘16 also caused them to come up just short in the election fraud department.

As we’ve all noticed, they haven’t come up short since that time but there’s still this idea floating around that 2024 will be different.


11 posted on 03/04/2024 5:02:01 AM PST by PermaRag (Joo Biden is not my President)
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...$34 Trillion in Federal Debt Could Trigger Meltdown, Derail the Next Administration

Just as long as it doesn't interfere with our daily payments of Billions to Ukraine.

12 posted on 03/04/2024 5:02:05 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Leaning Right

Oh yes, I forgot that one!


13 posted on 03/04/2024 5:12:14 AM PST by dforest
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To: SMARTY
[Well, isn’t that the plan?]

Wouldn't surprised me. Nothing surprises me anymore.



All according to plan




14 posted on 03/04/2024 5:18:27 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: CFW

This is but ONE scenario about which I’ve pondered, postulating the possibility that DS is ‘helping’ Trump to win (as intended).

But this isn’t just about Trump: They intend to eliminate opposition in the process and cement their iron fists.


15 posted on 03/04/2024 5:36:27 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: CFW

What will they say when, of course, it doesn’t happen?

My guess: nothing.


16 posted on 03/04/2024 5:52:57 AM PST by Buck-Toothed Knuckle Dragger
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Don’t worry, everything will be just fine, we won’t run out of money, Congress can just pass a bill ordering the Treasury Dept tot Print More when we need it...


17 posted on 03/04/2024 6:23:39 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: CFW

I guess this explains why Biden is loading the national debt at the rate of $1 Trillion every three months. Dems know they are going to loose election big time so they are setting a trap for President Trump at our expense. And a big expense it is.


18 posted on 03/04/2024 6:59:47 AM PST by Flint
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DEMS know they cannot win-—

BUT THEY CAN BURN THE FIELDS & SALT THE EARTH


19 posted on 03/04/2024 8:20:57 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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