We're basically missing each other's numbers. And if you do it over a decade, understand the baseline looks like At the end of the decade, we're going to be well over $48 trillion [in debt]. But that makes sense if we're clicking off a trillion dollars about every 125 days. You really think the credit markets are going to keep loaning us money at favorable interest rates when we're staring down $50 trillion at the end of this decade? (29:12–29:22)
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Asserts that U.S. debt will exceed $48 trillion by the end of the decade.
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