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How Boomers voted the next generation a $40 trillion debt??? and counting
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (800+ words) How Boomers voted the next generation a $40 trillion debt — and counting fortune.com How Boomers voted the next generation a $40 trillion debt, and counting The United States’ national debt crossed $40 trillion last month. Five months earlier, in March, the more…...
National Debt Hits $40 Trillion—How Prepared Is Your State?
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (444+ words) Center for State Competitiveness by Andrew Wilford September 09, 2026 Last month, the national debt hit $40 trillion. For such a monumentally dubious achievement, it received relatively little attention. It’s not that hard to understand why—while it took us 192 years to accumulate…...
Future Retirees May Need $130,000 More in Savings to Cover a Social Security Shortfall
1+ week, 1+ day ago (953+ words) A looming funding gap could reshape retirement planning. Retirement may become substantially more expensive for Americans planning to leave the workforce in 2032 or later if Congress doesn't address Social Security's growing funding shortfall. The 2026 Social Security Trustees Report projects that…...
The social security budget was executed with a surplus
3+ week, 6+ day ago (186+ words) Mandatory contributions totaled 17,460.9 million lei, representing 55.7% of the annual target and an increase of 1,470.8 million lei (9.2%) compared to last year. Other revenues totaled 620.5 million lei. This is 139.6 million lei (29.0%) more than in the same period last year. Of this amount,…...
Commentary: At $40 trillion in debt, Washington is stealing from younger generations
2+ week, 4+ day ago (48+ words) Itemlive August 25, 2026 by Guest Commentary The national debt now exceeds $40 trillion. That equals roughly $117,000 for every man, woman, and child in the United States. The number is shocking, but the direction…...
Is the USA Going Bankrupt?
2+ week, 4+ day ago (332+ words) Thank God, no, we aren't going bust as a nation, despite our gargantuan $40 trillion national debt. The rapid pileup of debt under Republicans and Democrats alike is certainly a disgrace and worrisome. When I came to Washington in the mid-1980s, our…...
America Can't Outgrow $40 Trillion in Debt
2+ week, 4+ day ago (152+ words) Stabilizing the federal debt through growth alone would require 7.3 percent annual real GDP growth. Nothing in our history suggests that’s remotely plausible. Using the same assumptions underlying the 7.3 percent estimate — an initial debt-to-GDP ratio of 125 percent, an average effective interest…...
How The U.S. Racked Up Its $40 Trillion Debt
2+ week, 4+ day ago (112+ words) Steve Hayes is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Kevin Williamson, and Mike Warren to discuss the U.S. crossing the $40 trillion debt threshold and the prospect of “growing our way out of it.” —Kevin explains how we got here —What would Paul Ryan…...
Opinion: Tackling the national debt requires both budget reform and fraud crackdowns
2+ week, 4+ day ago (75+ words) In the next 10 years, our gross federal debt will rise from $40 trillion to nearly $64 trillion...
You Can't Grow Your Way Out of $40 Trillion in Debt
2+ week, 5+ day ago (925+ words) The national debt has now crossed a threshold that once seemed almost unimaginable: $40 trillion. This gross figure includes approximately $7 trillion in intragovernmental debt, money the federal government technically owes to its own trust funds such as Social Security and Medicare....