David McWilliams
speaker
15,996 appearances
46 recordings
8 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 10 Sep
David McWilliams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The massive, massive government debt service bill.
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So what Resent did is he came in and he said, Look
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Over the course of the next few months.
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I'm going to increase the amount of money that I'm going to use to buy back my own debt.
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I'm going to actually increase it, I'm going to double it from two billion to four billion a month.
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But the problem is if a debt is forty trillion.
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Two billion or four billion isn't that much.
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Yeah, that's a quick
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Well look, so the the the dilemma for the Americans is very, very simple.
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They need to either raise taxes.
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Are cut welfare spending.
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They need to bring that deficit, which is now running at 6%, which means they're running the economy incredibly, incredibly fast.
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They're really revving up the engine, right?
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They need to bring that down to about 3%.
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And there needs to be a sense that everything is going to stabilize.
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Otherwise, it doesn't matter how much money you throw at the problem, because if people don't believe
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your medium term credibility.
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then you become actually a pawn and in in a way it's almost like their their their strategy in Iran with the war john.
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If people believe that the Iranians just by staying still are winning.
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And if they believe the United States military isn't big enough to do the job, and if they believe that Trump can't get out, then the credibility of the United States continues to erode away.
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