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America's Debt Crisis Is Bigger Than You Think

2024-10-15 Science & Technology
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Go to https://aura.com/coldfusion to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed. The US debt crisis will become one of the biggest issues of our time, affecting not only those in the US but everyone around the world. In this episode we explore the mechanisms of a default, the causes and solutions. How the 2008 crisis still affects you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1dpWiZoiJU Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1B6-shY_jJG62dAXiXVIrcgrA13oU1DSa05ZJVjUx9nU/edit?usp=sharing ColdFusion Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ThroughTheWeb ColdFusion Music: https://www.youtube.com/@ColdFusionmusic http://burnwater.bandcamp.com Get my book: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingbook ColdFusion Socials: https://discord.gg/coldfusion https://facebook.com/ColdFusionTV https://twitter.com/ColdFusion_TV https://instagram.com/coldfusiontv Producer: Dagogo Altraide, Tawsif Akkas Writers: Dagogo Altraide, Tomás de Castro Editors: Brayden Laffrey Animation: Tawsif Akkas Motion Graphics: Mathijs Luijten

Top Comments (10)

@Stefffennnnn 2024-10-15

If I mess up at my job I’d probably get chewed out and fired. The leaders of the greatest country in world mess up they say “it’s because of the left or right.” When did we start electing children in office? We need real leaders in office.

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@sirsavagethe21st56 2024-10-16

We really grew up to inherit debt and a dying planet lmao

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@deletedaxiom6057 2024-10-15

Classic saying, "If you owe the bank a hundred dollars, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank a million dollars, that’s the bank’s problem."

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@sureshnishtala2887 2024-10-30

Warren Buffett famously said about how to end the Fiscal Deficit saying that “I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

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@clearandsweet 2024-10-15

"Such a thing only happens on the timescale of decades, rather than years" Ohoho, watch out the Fed is going to take that personally. Prophetic

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@nik_cage 2024-10-16

The problem with politicians talking about cutting spending is they almost always mean taking important social safety nets from people and never cutting useless and expensive bureaucracy and asking why we spend nearly $1 trillion a year on a defense budget

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@ErikTheCueist 2024-10-21

I’m gonna be a banker for Halloween. I’m gonna eat all my candy, eat all your candy and then I’m gonna convince the government that if i don’t get more candy, we will all starve

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@Pan_Z 2024-10-16

In the 1990's, the federal debt was one of *the main issues* in American politics. Both main parties sought to pay it off through different methods. Now in the 2020's, neither political party even mentions it. The US government spends more money servicing interest on its debt than it does its military. Many EU and Asian nations are similar.

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@faraivalentine5440 2025-04-15

Five months later... We are now watching the story unfold.

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@Ron19565 2025-04-20

Who’s revisiting this after all the tarifs ? And chaos

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