{"id":26862,"date":"2024-09-26T21:59:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/?p=26862"},"modified":"2024-09-26T22:10:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T20:10:40","slug":"deficits-unfathomable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/abyssal-deficit\/deficits-unfathomable","title":{"rendered":"Unfathomable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26859\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/abyssal-deficit\/deficits-unfathomable\/attachment\/gxqupg_baaadwgq-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GXqUpg_bAAAdwGq.jpg?fit=1900%2C1226&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1900,1226\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"GXqUpg_bAAAdwGq\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GXqUpg_bAAAdwGq.jpg?fit=1024%2C661&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26859\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GXqUpg_bAAAdwGq.jpg?resize=1170%2C755&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GXqUpg_bAAAdwGq.jpg?w=1900&amp;ssl=1 1900w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GXqUpg_bAAAdwGq.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GXqUpg_bAAAdwGq.jpg?resize=1024%2C661&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GXqUpg_bAAAdwGq.jpg?resize=768%2C496&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GXqUpg_bAAAdwGq.jpg?resize=1536%2C991&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michelsanti.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/GXqUpg_bAAAdwGq.jpg?resize=1200%2C774&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The US public debt stands at 35.3 trillion dollars, or <strong>35,300,000,000,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If interest rates returned to 0, and the debt was repaid at a rate of <strong>one million per hour<\/strong>, it would take until the year 6047, or 4,023 years, to pay it off.<\/p>\n<p>The magnitudes are staggering: today we talk about trillions, whereas only billions were mentioned during the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p>The American economy now depends entirely on foreign investments and savings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The US public debt stands at 35.3 trillion dollars, or 35,300,000,000,000. If interest rates returned to 0, and the debt was repaid at a rate of one million per hour, it would take until the year 6047, or 4,023 years, to pay it off. The magnitudes are staggering: today we talk about trillions, whereas&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[648942706],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abyssal-deficit"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Unfathomable - Michel Santi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/michelsanti.fr\/en\/abyssal-deficit\/deficits-unfathomable\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Unfathomable - Michel Santi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; The US public debt stands at 35.3 trillion dollars, or 35,300,000,000,000. 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