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Total US govt revenue is about $5 trillion per year from all sources. Personal income taxes are about 42% of the total, so around $2.1 trillion. So roughly 1/2 of all personal income taxes collected by the US govt is …
Alarming Financial Stats of 2023: – U.S debt at record high – Interest expense on U.S debt to reach a record $1 trillion annually– Credit card debt at record high – Average credit card interest rate at a record 20.69% These are records …
Ok, this is the 'scary chart of the week' floating around, interest payments. Q2 2023 interest of $969.9B on $31.5T of debt. Yellen's outfit just announced another $1 trillion of new debt by end of Q3. Maybe the problem is …
by Dismal-Jellyfish Source: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1662 The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced its current estimates of privately-held net marketable borrowing[1]for the July – September 2023 and October – December 2023 quarters. During the July – September 2023 quarter, Treasury expects to …
by RedditIsOwendByTheWS The government now lives from month to month. soon it will be from week to week. Then from day to day. and finally from hour to hour. Source : Traders Brace for $102 Billion Wave of Treasury Bond Sales …
by Dismal-Jellyfish Reminder, while banks have the liquidity fairy, ‘we’ get the promise of 2 more rate hikes this year, Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic yet again enrichens himself inappropriately from his position. What I want to talk about this afternoon is–Commercial and …
This chart is FASCINATING! Corporates have seen NET INTEREST payments fall bc they fixed debt when rates were low (2020/21) and now are benefitting from higher rates on their cash. A reason why higher interest rates slow to drive a …
Funny how that works 🤔 (h/t @luke_broyles on twitter) h/t BENshakalaka
“The urban doom loop is accelerating. As commercial buildings empty and default, tax revenue declines, defunding city services like police, fire safety, and more.” The urban doom loop is accelerating. As commercial buildings empty and default, tax revenue declines, defunding …
by confoundedinterest17 Its the 4th of July, American Independence Day from England, but under Biden and The Federal Reserve, Americans are DEPENDENT on debt and Federal spending. In other words, Americans are addicted to gov. First, Bankrate’s 30-year mortgage rate index …
“If Republicans were smart, they would propose a bill to pay down student loans by seizing college endowments. The newly debt-free would be able to afford families, turning them Republican. And universities would pay for the debt they saddled students …
via YAHOO: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Retiree Pamela Haile has paid property taxes, insurance and other bills on a house she lets out in Oakland, but for more than three years her tenants have paid no rent thanks to one …
Interest costs are a quarter of the deficit, leading to unsustainable debt. Latest US Treasury data show we're on unsustainable path: interest on the debt was a whopping $61 billion in May, more than was spent on veterans benefits and …
by Dismal-Jellyfish Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19/current/g19.pdf Remember, From 1st quarter 2022 to 1st quarter 2023, total household debt has increased $1,205 billion to $17.05 trillion (+7.57%)–Mortgage balances ($864 billion), HELOC ($22 billion), Student loans ($14 billion), Auto loans ($93 billion), Credit Card debt ($145 …
Pretty soon the government will have to issue debt to just service the debt!!! If the U.S. Government is already running a yearly ~$1.5+ trillion budget deficit and you suddenly have ~$1.5+ trillion in yearly interest payments on the debt, …
by Chris Black There was never any chance at all of a default. That was just total nonsense, and media noise. The House of Representatives of the US Congress approved a bill to raise the debt ceiling. This will avoid …
by Phoenix Capital Research It’s worse than I imagined. I had initially thought that the current debt ceiling deal would feature a small amount of spending cuts in 2024. In reality, it will feature NO CUTS and will in fact open the door to as much …
Everyone's talking about how the U.S just hit $1 trillion in total credit card debt But what's more concerning: That number has increased by +$250 billion in just 2 years This doesn't end well pic.twitter.com/LK7oUrne2D — Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) …
by confoundedinterest17 Another day under Biden/Yellen. Last night, “Republicans” joined Democrats to allow unlimited Federal spending and debt for the next two years. Way to go “Benedict McCarthy”! But today, we saw that ISM Manufacturing printed at 46.9 for May, the 7th consecutive month …
WHITE HOUSE'S KIRBY: U.S. ANNOUNCING ADDITIONAL AID PACKAGE FOR UKRAINE No need to wait for the debt ceiling deal vote — zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 31, 2023 White House: “Horrible things will happen if the US Treasury runs out of cash”. …