Posted on 03/02/2026 11:06:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Big Tech is planning multi-billion-dollar investments in its own energy generation. Combined with the ongoing AI boom, the massive expansion of data centers is stretching every capital market framework to its limits. Even the European bond market is increasingly in the crosshairs of companies and investors. For the heavily indebted states of the European Union, this is not good news.
The “credit pump” could rightfully claim its place as a symbolic flag of the European Union. With virtually unlimited access to the bond market, politics magically transforms an inexhaustible credit stream into political maneuvers and ideological wizardry. Through this manipulation of money, processes and institutions are transplanted into the real world that, under normal circumstances, could never have surpassed the fantasies and limits of political ideology.
Wind turbines in forests, fully electric cargo bikes in an industrial nation that destroys its own engines of prosperity in favor of an artificial green subsidy economy, plunging itself into trillions of euros in new debt -- a historically unprecedented degrowth spectacle, which has not erupted into open revolt only because hundreds of thousands losing their jobs are somehow absorbed into the public sector or cushioned, if not sedated, by the largesse of the German welfare state.
The same applies to open-border policies. Here too, perpetual credit seems to lubricate a project designed to unlock new voter potential for the political Left. This process becomes possible through the systematic destruction of monetary value. National debt is not merely a fiscal problem; it erodes the fragile economic fabric of society. Moreover, it sends the fatal signal that an overpowering actor like the state can override the limits of productivity, reason, and scarcity at the push of a button.
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Leading the debt race this year is the magic duo Germany-France. Budget figures are falsified, accounting tricks like special funds have become the standard of self-deception. Both countries enter 2026 with new debt of roughly five percent each.
Europe has already wrecked Europe with the flood of Muslims entering their countries.
Europe and Japan have been MUCH more fiscally responsible than the US. They are at last (starting in 2021) beginning to expand their balance sheets, but their debt/GDP is still much lower than ours.
There’s a far better case for investing in Europe and Japan than here. Their market multiples are 30-50% cheaper than ours.
“...but their debt/GDP is still much lower than ours.”
Japan’s is nearly twice ours, and most of Europe is pretty close.
“Debt to GDP Ratio by Country 2026”
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/debt-to-gdp-ratio-by-country
Muslims were imported to improve Europes birthrates?
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