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Trumps actions are by design to lower interest rates so we sell $9 trillion in new bonds
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:22 pm
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:22 pm
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Everyone should read this link and understand the implications.
We have $29 trillion in debt held by the "public."
33% of that debt, or $9 trillion, will mature in the next 12 months. That means we will need to sell new bonds to raise the money to pay off that $9 trillion to the holders of the bonds that will mature.
Five years ago, the AVERAGE interest rate across all of the national debt was 2.32%. That meant the mix of T-Bills (2-12 months) to bonds (up to 30 years) could be averaged out to 2.32%.
Today, because of the borrowing during the Biden Admin post COVID using mostly 3 and 5 year bonds, the average interest rate across all the debt is now 3.35%
That 1.03% increase is actually a nearly 50% increase in borrowing costs across the entirety of the debt.
That's why interest on the national debt this year exceeds the Pentagon budget.
What Pres. Trump is doing by design is to drive down interest rates so that when we have to sell $9 trillion in new bonds over the next 12 months, the interest rates on the new bonds will be less than the interest rates on the bonds sold that were sold by the Biden Admin to fund the nonsense crapola that DOGE has been exposing.
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Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:24 pm to hawgfaninc
Interesting
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:27 pm to hawgfaninc
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Trumps actions are by design to lower interest rates so we sell $9 trillion in new bonds
No doubt about it. This is the #1 objective. Everything else related to fairness of trade and reshoring manufacturing are secondary in importance.
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:28 pm to hawgfaninc
Bessent has said this
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:28 pm to High C
Laid out earlier this year
Mar A Lago Accord
Mar A Lago Accord
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Being called the “Mar-a-Lago Accord,” it would involve several stages. First, the U.S. would try to force some foreign creditors, which hold large amounts of long-term Treasury notes, to trade them in for special extra-long-term Treasurys.
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the replacements would be 100-year, non-tradeable zero-coupon bonds. That means the bonds wouldn’t pay interest. Instead, they would sell at a discount from their face value. Holding them to maturity would be the only way to recoup the investment and the accompanying return. If one of the countries needed cash, they could borrow temporarily from the Federal Reserve against the bond.
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Another aspect is the existing push on tariffs. The Trump administration wants to use them in the process of restructuring global trade and weaken the dollar, although they say outwardly that they want a strong dollar. The reason for a weaker dollar would be to reduce borrowing costs, as Jim Bianco, founder of research and analysis firm Bianco Research, told Bloomberg. If the dollar is worth less, so is the total debt.
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:29 pm to SDVTiger
This is one of the more plausible conspiracy theories I have heard. Much better than him tanking the market so Buffet can take over the world.
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:34 pm to TDTOM
Somebody posted this here yesterday.
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Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:35 pm to TDTOM
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This is one of the more plausible conspiracy theories I have heard.
It's not really a conspiracy theory if it's a publicly stated plan
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:37 pm to Bunk Moreland
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:43 pm to Powerman
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It's not really a conspiracy theory if it's a publicly stated plan
I didn’t know it was publicly stated. GFY.
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:46 pm to hawgfaninc
We’ve been talking about this for weeks. Why is everyone posting this lately as if it is new information?
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:48 pm to SaturatedPhat
Good info deserves to be repeated because not everyone has heard it and those that did might see a different perspective on it.
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:53 pm to hawgfaninc
Except this approach will lead to a weaker dollar, so more inflation, so the guy spitting this garbage doesn’t know shite.
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:56 pm to hawgfaninc
If this was the case, why doesn’t Trump just say that?
Why do his supporters have to hunt around trying to guess why he does things, hoping they’re for the best?
Why do his supporters have to hunt around trying to guess why he does things, hoping they’re for the best?
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:57 pm to SaturatedPhat
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We’ve been talking about this for weeks. Why is everyone posting this lately as if it is new information?
I hate these posts.
“I know something that you didn’t. Where have you been? It’s like you have a life or something.”
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:58 pm to cameronml
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Why do his supporters have to hunt around trying to guess why he does things, hoping they’re for the best?
They arent the type to do independent research. Its an influencer-driven movment.
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:58 pm to hawgfaninc
This is too advanced macroeconomics for our resident TDS posters to understand. All they see are stocks going lower and the TDS time bomb goes off in their head…it’s sad they talk on here about topics which they know nothing about.
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:58 pm to hawgfaninc
It's almost like they kinda know what they're doing
Posted on 4/5/25 at 2:58 pm to cameronml
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Why do his supporters have to hunt around trying to guess why he does things, hoping they’re for the best?
Art of the Deal
Posted on 4/5/25 at 3:01 pm to SlowFlowPro
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Why do his supporters have to hunt around trying to guess why he does things, hoping they’re for the best?
Art of the Deal
We already know how you feel. Do you care to address the topic?
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