• Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    US debt is currently higher than their GDP. Even if they could leverage the entire country into only paying debt (they can’t), it would take over a year to pay off. At the current average interest rate of ~3%, that’s enough to pay for the entirety of NASA’s budget five times over.

    The last time US debt was greater than their GDP was the second world war.