America’s debt is soaring skyward.

A debt crisis looms large – on the horizon.

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“Broken Promises”

Authored by EconomicPrism’s MN Gordon, annotated by Acting-Man’s Pater Tenebrarum,

ZeroHedge, March 4, 2018 – Excerpts: 

The fact is we are on a collision course with disaster.  Take government debt, for instance. Over the last decade, nominal gross domestic product (GDP) has increased from about $14.7 trillion to about $19.3 trillion.  Over this same period, the national debt has increased twice as fast; it has doubled from $10 trillion to $20 trillion.

In short, there is a fundamental divergence between economic growth and government debt growth.  Broadly speaking, the U.S. Economy is growing at a rate of roughly 2.5 percent a year.  And U.S. government debt is growing at a rate of roughly 6 percent a year – or more.

Over an extended period, this divergence results in two dramatically different growth curves.  Government debt has now overtaken GDP.  Over the next decade, government debt – which is projected to spike up another $10 to $15 trillion – will absolutely dwarf GDP.

Presumably, at some point between now and 2027 the economy will slip into reverse.  GDP will contract.  At the same time, government debt will accelerate as Washington feels compelled to do something – like spend borrowed money – to somehow jump-start the economy.

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Today’s Biggest Winner: Banks To Get An Extra $5 Billion In Interest From The Fed

ZeroHedge, Mar 21, 2018 – Excerpts:

Today’s 25bps hike in rates to 1.75% will have little impact on how much interest is paid to the trillions of dollars held in checking and savings accounts across the US (simply because banks continue to drown in over $2 trillion in excess reserves and thus do not really need all those deposits). It will, however, have a notable impact on how much cash the Fed pays out to banks in the form of interest on excess reserves (just don’t call it a subsidy).

As the chart below shows, after today’s rate hike, the Fed will be paying $37 billion in annualized interest to banks, an increase of $5 billion from the last rate hike.

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And now on to the discomfiting part of this financial tale…

40% Of The Fed’s Interest On Excess Reserves Is Paid To Foreign Banks

ZeroHedge, Jul 13, 2017

Courtesy of the Fed’s H.8 statement, however, we can quickly figure out [the amount of interest paid out to foreign banks].

Recall that as we showed first all the way back in 2011, the total cash on the books of commercial banks with operations in the US tracks the Fed’s excess reserves almost dollar for dollar. More importantly, the number is broken down by small and large domestic banks, as well as international banks. It is the last number that is of biggest interest, because now that Congress is finally scrutinizing the $4.5 trillion elephant in the room, i.e., the Fed’s balance sheet, it may be interested to know that approximately 40%, or $838 billion as of the latest weekly data, in reserves parked at the Fed belongs to foreign banks.

This is a subsidy from the Fed, supposedly an institution that exists for the benefit of the US population, going directly and without any frictions to foreign banks….

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The Fed will now, following the rate hike this week, pay out $37 billion as interest on excess reserves to major bank.  Since, foreign banks account for approximately 40% of those excess reserves, the U.S Federal Reserve will be paying out $14.8 billion to foreign banks in the coming year..

Again: “This is a subsidy from the Fed, supposedly an institution that exists for the benefit of the US population, going directly and without any frictions to foreign banks….”

This is a Fed-fueled foreign bank funding fiasco – of the highest order.

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America’s massive debt burdens are grinding steadily higher, and one of the primary drivers over the past two decades has been increasing growth curve of entitlement spending.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has been warning that the projected forward-looking, 75-year fiscal gap shows us to be on a dangerous, unsustainable fiscal path.

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Smashing The Myth Of America’s “Stingy” Welfare State

ZeroHedge, Mar 2, 2018 – Excerpts:

According to the 2016 social expenditure database at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), public social spending as a percentage of GDP in the US was 19.4 percent:

One immediate solution is to decentralize the welfare state immediately, and take it out of the hands of the federal government.

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