[Toddsterpatriot]

The liabilities keep growing faster than the "future profits", leading to the exclamation above.

If the Fed remits zero to the Treasury and ends the year with $50 billion in mark downs, why does it matter?

[Oatka]

If the Fed remits zero to the Treasury and ends the year with $50 billion in mark downs, why does it matter?

Maybe I'm off, but isn't the debt that much higher? Somebody has to pay it off if the fed doesn't. Wouldn't that debt, and the prospect of more to come turn off foreign investors?