US Debt to rise to 6x GDP? Destruction or a ‘reset’ will happen first
The USA has a huge problem with debt. And it is worse than most people realize:
The Coming Bankruptcy of the American Empire
Herbert Stein was chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford and is the father of the more well known Ben Stein. In 1976, he propounded what he called “Stein’s Law”: if something cannot go on forever, it will stop. Stein was referring to economic trends, but the same law applies just as much to foreign policy and the concept of empire. …
The United States’ national debt is approaching $22 trillion with a current federal budget deficit of over $800 billion. As Senator Rand Paul often points out, bankruptcy is the Sword of Damocles hanging perilously close to Uncle Sam’s neck. …
The United States holds the most debt of any country in the history of the world. … How much debt can the system hold? When will the cracks grow too big to hide? When will the foundation crumble? There’s a great deal of ruin in a nation, said Adam Smith, and our ruin must ultimately come.
Is bankruptcy possible? As some Beltway economists remind us, no. Technically the government has the power to artificially create as many dollars as it needs to pay its debts. But this kind of hyper-inflation would deprive the U.S. dollar of any value and tank the global economy that trades with it. 11/20/18. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-coming-bankruptcy-of-the-american-empire/
By the time a child born in 2018 is settling into retirement, the national debt could be six times the size of the American economy.
Without making any changes to current policy—in other words, even without the glut of new entitlement spending proposed by some of Bernie Sanders’ acolytes—that’s the trajectory for the national debt over the rest of the 21st century, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). It’s an outlook that the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), in an analysis released this week, calls “frightening and almost certainly unsustainable.”
Under current law—which assumes, among other things, that last year’s tax cuts will expire in 2025 and not be extended—the national debt will double from 78 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) this year to 160 percent of GDP by 2050. It would hit 360 percent of GDP, and still be climbing, by the end of the CBO’s 75-year projection window in 2093. In the so-called “alternative fiscal scenario,” which assumes current policies (such those tax cuts) are kept in place, the debt would hit 225 percent of GDP by 2050 and more than 600 percent of GDP by 2093. https://reason.com/blog/2018/10/26/a-national-debt-6-times-the-size-of-the
Let’s wait before we consider biblical prophecies about this.
A rise of interest rates alone to normal rates expected to an economy like this would stop this from happening.
There would, at minimum, be some type of debt reset (see ‘Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt’ — Reset coming in 2020 or later?). And that would hurt probably everyone (though some more than others).
Anyway, the debt situation is serious:
In case anyone is still unaware, government debt is out-of-control. It doubled under President Obama, and it is anticipated to increase for 50 percent in the next ten years.
It’s not just the repayment of debt that presents a potential crisis; it’s the interest payments. With a clear correlation between government debt and diminished growth, a natural first step would be for the government to ease its deficit spending on programs such Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare to decrease the waste inherent in some of these programs.
Interest rates are expected to rise to $1 trillion during the next decade. That is more than the US spends each year on Medicaid and its military. It will cost $55,000 per household over the next ten years just to service debt. …
The once-great country of America appears to be on the decline, paralyzed by mounting debts it cannot handle. …
At of January, foreign investors own $6.35 trillion in US bonds, with China and Japan the largest investors, with a total of $2 trillion. When the demand for treasury bonds decreases, the Federal Reserve will need to increase interest rates, which increases the cost of borrowing. http://www.goldtelegraph.com/america-paralyzed-by-mounting-debts
At this moment, I consider the above scenario overly optimistic (cf. Habakkuk 2:6-8).
As USA debt rises, the US Federal Reserve raises interest rates as it has done this year (see US debt over $21 trillion, Fed raises interest rates, debt to continue to climb).
This puts more pressure on the debt and the ability to repay it.
Shortly after becoming US President, Barack Obama said that the levels of deficit spending that the USA was engaging in was “unsustainable.” Something that is unsustainable cannot continue indefinitely. The rise of USA debt is unsustainable.
The rise of US debt was listed by me as number 10 of 18 items to prophetically watch in 2018 (here is a link to a related sermon: 18 items to prophetically watch in 2018).
The Anglo-American world order will come to an end. Accumulation of debt, and then having to pay historically ‘normal’ interest rates will strain the national economies of the USA, UK, and Canada more than almost anyone will believe. It will be a financial crisis beyond what most pundits would consider possible.
Speaking of pundits, the following was interesting from James Howard K.:
The true message of income inequality is that the nation as a whole is becoming incrementally impoverished and eventually even the massive “wealth” of the one-percenters will prove to be fictitious, as the things it is represented in — stocks, bonds, currencies, Manhattan apartments — hemorrhage their supposed value. The very wealthy will be a lot less wealthy while everybody else is in a life-and-death struggle to remain fed, housed, and warm. And, of course, that only increases the chance that some violent social revolution will take away even that remaining residue of wealth, and destroy the people who held it. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-23/kunstler-america-has-become-alzheimer-nation
James is correct that the time will come when assets held by the wealthier Americans will be worth much less in terms of real purchasing power. The USA dollar, for one example, will be worth no more than the scrap value of the cotton-paper it is printed on and digital US bank account holdings will be worth even less.
Those who think the current world order with the USA’s dollar on top will last until the end of this century are in error.
Repentance is needed. The USA and its Anglo-Saxon allies will not last to the end of this century (watch also End of the Anglo-American Order).
The prophecy in Habakkuk 2 shows that destruction will come to a highly indebted people:
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry…5 Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, He is a proud man… 6 “Will not all these take up a proverb against him, And a taunting riddle against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases What is not his–how long? And to him who loads himself with many pledges’? 7 Will not your creditors rise up suddenly? Will they not awaken who oppress you? And you will become their booty. 8 Because you have plundered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plunder you. Because of men’s blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it. (Habakkuk 2:3,5,6-8).
The above prophecy will be fulfilled at the time of the end (cf. “The message was true, but the appointed time was long…in the latter days, for the vision refers to many days yet to come,” Daniel 10:1,14). Daniel 8:19, 11:27,29,35 use the same Hebrew term for “appointed time” as Habakkuk 2:3, while Daniel 10, using a different term, ties the latter days to the time in Daniel 8:19. Habakkuk 2 was not fulfilled in its entirety anciently.
Notice also the following from the Commentary on Habakkuk from the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls (roughly 2000 years old; translated in the 1950s by F.F. Bruce):
God commanded Habakkuk to write the things that were coming upon the last generation, but the fulfilment of the epoch he did not make known to him. (1Q p Hab. vii 1-5)
While ancient commentaries like this are NOT scripture, this particular one shows that those who understood the Hebrew language around 2000 years ago believed that Habakkuk’s words had NOT then been fulfilled and were for the time of the end.
Habakkuk 2 is NOT a reference to the tiny nation called Israel as it does not have a substantial amount of enemy creditors, but it is reference to the USA which many analysts will admit does have massive debt held by unfriendly creditors.
Time will run out for the USA.
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