Christine Romans

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235 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 20 Aug

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Here's the Scoop · What $40 Trillion in U.S. Debt Means for America’s Bottom Line; Drive to Decision Day in Toledo, Ohio · 20 Aug 2026 podcast

That's $40 trillion.

And so now what are you crowding out?

You're crowding out the things that governments do to keep an economy a middle class economy.

You know, maybe that means you don't can't spend as much on defense or on cybersecurity or on education or on fixing roads or you know, healthcare, social security.

You know, what are the kinds of trade-offs that the American public has to make because you're making these big tech debt payments?

I mean, we're

When I had first started covering the Treasury Market and

If you had told me we had a forty trillion dollar debt, I my mind would have been blown.

Honestly.

So I don't know what the red line is where suddenly interest rates start rising and servicing that debt gets more expensive and international investors get more nervous and then suddenly you have to demand even higher interest rates, right?

To be able to lend more money to the United States.

And then it's then and then it becomes

really a confidence problem and that run is ugly, ugly.

And you hope that doesn't happen.

I mean, it means higher interest rates for you and for the people you love and for the things that you're doing, right?

I mean, doesn't it mean you're going to pay more to finance a car, you're gonna pay more probably to finance a mortgage, credit card rates, which are terrible by the way, credit card interest is the worst thing in your family budget.

I mean, yeah, no, it's bad.

Those are already very, very high.

But it's somewhere down the line, someone's gotta fix this.

And that fixing it could be suddenly 529 college plan tax advantages disappear.

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