US Debt Interest Bill Rockets Past a Cool $1 Trillion a Year

[ipatent]

US Debt Interest Bill Rockets Past a Cool $1 Trillion a Year

Estimated annualized interest payments on the US government debt pile climbed past $1 trillion at the end of last month, Bloomberg analysis shows. That amount has doubled in the past 19 months, and is equivalent to 15.9% of the entire Federal budget for fiscal year 2022.

The figures are calculated using US Treasury data which state the government’s monthly outstanding debt balances and the average interest it pays.

The worsening metrics may reignite debate about the US fiscal path amid heavy borrowing from Washington. That dynamic has already helped drive up bond yields, threatened the return of the so-called bond vigilantes and led Fitch Ratings to downgrade US government debt in August.

“There will be further increases to Treasury coupon auctions and T-bills outstanding going forward,” Bloomberg Intelligence strategists Ira Jersey and Will Hoffman wrote in a research note. “Besides deficits of over $2 trillion in the foreseeable future, climbing maturities following the increase of issuance from March 2020 will also need to be refinanced.”

 

[piezoe]

US Debt Interest Bill Rockets Past a Cool $1 Trillion a Year

Estimated annualized interest payments on the US government debt pile climbed past $1 trillion at the end of last month, Bloomberg analysis shows. That amount has doubled in the past 19 months, and is equivalent to 15.9% of the entire Federal budget for fiscal year 2022.

The figures are calculated using US Treasury data which state the government’s monthly outstanding debt balances and the average interest it pays.

The worsening metrics may reignite debate about the US fiscal path amid heavy borrowing from Washington. That dynamic has already helped drive up bond yields, threatened the return of the so-called bond vigilantes and led Fitch Ratings to downgrade US government debt in August.

“There will be further increases to Treasury coupon auctions and T-bills outstanding going forward,” Bloomberg Intelligence strategists Ira Jersey and Will Hoffman wrote in a research note. “Besides deficits of over $2 trillion in the foreseeable future, climbing maturities following the increase of issuance from March 2020 will also need to be refinanced.”

You're barking up the wrong tree. You'll always get this wrong until you study sovereign fiat money, where it comes from, how it gets into and comes out of the private sector, what its role in the economy is, what it's relationship is to "bank money", the essential nature of deficits and the role they play, and the nature of so-called "national debt" for nations that never "borrow" in another nations currency.

There are plenty of things we should all be concerned about when it comes to U.S. finances. But they are not the things you are concerned about. You're in very good company however. The people at Fitch also don't understand U.S. money.

 

[steve42]

You're barking up the wrong tree. You'll always get this wrong until you study sovereign fiat money, where it comes from, how it gets into and comes out of the private sector, what its role in the economy is, what it's relationship is to "bank money", the essential nature of deficits and the role they play, and the nature of so-called "national debt" for nations that never "borrow" in another nations currency.

There are plenty of things we should all be concerned about when it comes to U.S. finances. But they are not the things you are concerned about. You're in very good company however. The people at Fitch also don't understand U.S. money.

What are you doing on this forum? You know what you're talking about

 

[destriero]

US Debt Interest Bill Rockets Past a Cool $1 Trillion a Year

Estimated annualized interest payments on the US government debt pile climbed past $1 trillion at the end of last month, Bloomberg analysis shows. That amount has doubled in the past 19 months, and is equivalent to 15.9% of the entire Federal budget for fiscal year 2022.

The figures are calculated using US Treasury data which state the government’s monthly outstanding debt balances and the average interest it pays.

The worsening metrics may reignite debate about the US fiscal path amid heavy borrowing from Washington. That dynamic has already helped drive up bond yields, threatened the return of the so-called bond vigilantes and led Fitch Ratings to downgrade US government debt in August.

“There will be further increases to Treasury coupon auctions and T-bills outstanding going forward,” Bloomberg Intelligence strategists Ira Jersey and Will Hoffman wrote in a research note. “Besides deficits of over $2 trillion in the foreseeable future, climbing maturities following the increase of issuance from March 2020 will also need to be refinanced.”

fuckboi, i guess that $9T that Trump added to the Debt wasn't such a good idea.

 

[steve42]

I think whenever you start grumping about these sort of things it means you're officially old

 

[ipatent]

I think whenever you start grumping about these sort of things it means you're officially old

I'm retired. I'm not worried about paying higher taxes to pay the debt down. Inflation is a concern, though.

 

[engineering]

Debt matters.

People who think otherwise are delusional.

 

[steve42]

Debt matters.

People who think otherwise are delusional.

Sure it does, like anybody can control what the government does though. so what good does it do to talk about it besides sharpen the axe ?

 

[piezoe]

I'm retired. I'm not worried about paying higher taxes to pay the debt down. Inflation is a concern, though.

Yes. Inflation is a valid concern.

 

[piezoe]

Debt matters.

People who think otherwise are delusional.

However what we call U.S. "debt" has nothing in common with private sector debt. Do not think of personal finances when you are thinking of government finances. They are two entirely different things.