Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of one of the world’s largest hedge funds, Bridgewater Associates, was recently interviewed. He explains that the United States’ $31.45T debt may have to be resolved by printing more money, also referred to as currency debasement.
“So I think you’re in the part of the cycle where you’ve had the tightening and then the dominoes are beginning to fall. And I think that that’s going to produce more problems.
I think when it comes down to it, there’s just too much debt, and we’re adding to it too quickly… Either that debt will be paid off with hard money, in which case there’s not much printing and so on, or it will be paid off with printing a lot of money to make it easier to pay off.
I think in the end, it’s always the case that they print a lot of money in and make it easier to pay off, but you have the reduced value of money.”
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Could The United States Default By June?
United States Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, wrote to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy;
“After reviewing recent federal tax receipts, our best estimate is that we will be unable to continue to satisfy all of the government’s obligations by early June, and potentially as early as June 1, if Congress does not raise or suspend the debt limit before that time.
If Congress fails to increase the debt limit, it would cause severe hardship to American families, harm our global leadership position, and raise questions about our ability to defend our national security interests.”
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Yellen warned that waiting until the last minute to take action on this issue would cause harm to “business and consumer confidence, raise short-term borrowing costs for taxpayers, and negatively impact the credit rating of the United States.” Yellen believes that defaulting on their debt would be a financial catastrophe, raising the cost of borrowing without an end, making future investment “substantially more costly.”
