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It’s not just the war that is pushing interest rates up. The debt is unsustainable and we soon won’t be able to service it. Total U.S. obligations exceed $136T FIVE times U.S. annual GDP.

It’s not just the war that is pushing interest rates up. The debt is unsustainable and we soon won’t be able to service it. It’s irresponsible. https://t.co/WRKQ08YVob — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) March 25, 2026 Total U.S. obligations exceed $136,200,000,000,000. FIVE times U.S. annual GDP. "America is facing a fiscal catastrophe. The reckoning, long deferred, is becoming …

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Expect a Negative Revision to 2025 Q4 GDP. Two Reasons

Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk, A recent construction report revision suggests a negative revision to GDP. Construction Spending Month-Over-Month December 2025 Construction Spending Total: +0.3 percent Nonresidential: -0.5 percent Residential: +1.5 percent Public: -0.5 percent Private: +0.5 percent Commercial: -0.4 percent The jump in residential is interesting. But the net was an expected 0.3 …

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Germany has opposed EU-issued bonds to cover French government spending; figures show France’s debt at 120% of GDP, Germany at 65%

Germany doesn’t want to underwrite France’s chronic overspending. 🚨🚨🚨German Chancellor Merz has rejected French President Macron’s request for the European Union to issue bonds to pay for stuff France cannot afford. Germany doesn’t want to pay for free stuff for the French govt which is deeply in debt. Debt to GDP: Germany 65%France… pic.twitter.com/vcwO2elgnx — …

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Nvidia is now 16% of U.S. GDP. The bubble could get bigger.

JUST IN: Peter Schiff says Bitcoin is a "bubble" that is "about to pop." pic.twitter.com/CmMTESG8pG — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) October 28, 2025 Nvidia is now 16% of U.S. GDP. pic.twitter.com/FjwEkcbWa6 — Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) October 29, 2025 BREAKING 🚨: Short Sellers Short Sellers are on track for their worst year since 2020 and they're blaming retail …

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If We Measured the Economy by Quality-of-Life Instead of GDP, We’d Be In a Depression

Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, GDP is like collecting data on passenger satisfaction with the dessert cart on the Titanic and declaring everyone is delighted as the great “unsinkable” ship settles into the icy waters of the Atlantic. That Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is an outdated and misleading metric of the economy is widely …

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Gun violence costs nearly 1% of GDP, down from 6% in 1990s

What the chart really conveys is the scale of economic drag gun violence imposes. Converting each firearm homicide into lost economic value using the government’s own VSL benchmark, the burden routinely matches or exceeds what the US spends annually on critical categories like research, infrastructure, or social safety nets. When that ratio sits near 1% …

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Share of young adults living with parents at Great Depression levels. But yeah, let’s celebrate GDP.

Behind the headlines about GDP growth and “resilient consumers” is a generation that cannot afford rent, cannot buy homes, and cannot build independent lives. Wages are stuck while housing costs have exploded, so millions are forced back into childhood bedrooms even as politicians brag about the economy. President Trump is delivering a Golden Age economy. …

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Shiller PE near 40, Buffett indicator at 200 percent of GDP, and tariffs choke margins while consumer demand stalls

If consumer demand is frozen and margins are squeezed, are stocks about to fall? Data and full report here: https://t.co/pxYDtGgI1a pic.twitter.com/Lp3Bzo280Z — The Coastal Journal (@1CoastalJournal) August 20, 2025 Corporate bankruptcies are heading for a record high this year higher than any other down turn in US history Report link: https://t.co/pxYDtGgI1a pic.twitter.com/z0oWH6yzhp — The Coastal …

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Bubble warning flares with market at 213% of GDP, AI frenzy surpassing dot-com era and short squeeze hitting dangerous extremes

Everyone sees the train coming, but no one wants to leave the tracks. We are living in the largest Bubble ever. It is insane (….and it will burst)! Market Capitalization to GDP: Long-term average: 88%Typical historical range: 70% – 115% Peak before Great Depression (1929): 81%Peak Dot-com Bubble (2000): 136%Peak before Great Financial… — Henrik …

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Strong new numbers for Argentina GDP.

🚨🇦🇷ARGENTINA'S ECONOMY SURGES—MILEI'S POLICIES DRIVE 7.1% GDP GROWTH PROJECTION GDP is expected to grow 7.1% interannually in Q2 2025. After a tough 2024, Milei’s austerity measures and economic freedom reforms are restoring confidence—just in time for the 2025 electoral… https://t.co/ZsYzoGOs9f pic.twitter.com/lZBGVdjBak — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 1, 2025

Poor Retail Sales Reduced GDP Estimate for 2025 Q1 by 0.75 PP

by Mike Shedlock The GDPnow Nowcast for the first quarter took a dive on February 14. Weather-related utility production lessened the blow. GDPNow data from the Atlanta Fed, chart by Mish There were three significant reports on February 14: Retail Sales, Industrial Production, and Import-Export Prices. Import-Export Prices did not seem to matter. Contributions to …

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Global Debt Reaches 326% of GDP

by Martin Armstrong Total global debt has peaked to 326% of global GDP, adding an additional $12 trillion of debt in the last three quarters of 2024, according to the Institute of International Finance. This figure surpasses what we saw amid the pandemic and is expected to continually rise and governments continue to borrow with …

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Are we witnessing ‘peak China’? China’s GDP projections drop, worsened by declining demographics and rapid debt accumulation.

Are we witnessing ‘peak China’? GDP projections have fallen dramatically over the past ten years.As a reminder, China’s demographics, the key ingredient for potential GDP growth, are way worse than those of the United States. This also explains why debt accumulation has been… pic.twitter.com/6V3qo52RYb — jeroen blokland (@jsblokland) January 4, 2025 BREAKING 🚨: China Chinese …

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Bulls are misled by GDP, BLS models, and volatile assets like Bitcoin. The real unemployment rate is 7.2%.

This happens in Canada too! — Mothersilverape (@mothersilverape) December 15, 2024 https://twitter.com/j77324/status/1868113104136986809 https://twitter.com/dailyjobcuts/status/1867920697030578185 The labor market continues to weaken, hard to see a rebound in positive momentum at maximum employment. Employment to pop ratio is finally declining, however. pic.twitter.com/jRvCxKqDYI — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) December 15, 2024 pic.twitter.com/cWReoeN4c2 — Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (@Pricetheory101) December 14, …

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