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Matt Cartwright: “If we crash a national debt, interest rates go up here and…”

Featuring: Matt Cartwright, Democratic | Former U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 8

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The Volpe Report - Sunday Feb 26, 2023 - US Rep. Matt Cartwright

Published | Video Starts at 10:23

And that's why if you have a bad credit score, you pay higher interest than people with a good credit score. Of course, it's the same free market analysis. And so If we crash a national debt, interest rates go up here and all over the world. which will cause a recession all over the world and conceivably a depression. Now if you want to do that just to make a political point that we should spend less, you don't need to do that. (10:23–10:29)

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