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A few days ago, the United States government went out to borrow $22 billion of 30-year debt.

The problem was, at what cost?

The sale cleared at a high yield a little over 5.3%, the most expensive government bond sale of its kind since 2001.

This comes a few weeks after America became the first country in history to cross $40 trillion in national debt.

More than $117,000 for every person in this country.

It's a number that's doubled in the last 10 years and quadrupled in the last 20, Which is how we hit this $40 trillion debt number ahead of schedule.

The Congressional Budget Office projected we'd cross it in 2028.

We got there two years early, which makes it about the only deadline Washington has ever beaten.

But the $40 trillion number is also the least interesting thing about what's currently happening.

Because a big debt at a low enough price is survivable, like a mortgage.

What makes debt dangerous isn't how much you owe, it's what it costs to carry.

And right now, the United States spends roughly $3 billion a day on interest.

Over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office has America spending more than $16 trillion on interest alone.

That's money that buys nothing.

No roads, no schools, no research.

It's the rental fee on decisions we already made.

Interest now eats 3.2% of the entire American economy, a level only seen once before in history, and America's debt and interest payments are chained together.

That's where the real fiscal problem for America lies.

When borrowing costs go up, the interest bill goes up, which widens the deficit, which means we have to borrow more debt, which grows the pile, which is one more reason to charge you more next time.

It's a circular feedback loop that feeds itself.

That's the actual problem, not the pile itself, but the self-reinforcing loop.

And sitting in the middle of it is the number everybody's talking about, the 30-year Treasury yield.

It's important because it acts as a gauge for the economy.

Thirty years is long enough that no election survives it—no Fed chair, no news cycle, no administration—which means a 30-year rate isn't a reaction to a headline.

It's the closest thing there is to an honest opinion on a country.

It captures structural economic conditions like long-run inflation expectations, monetary policy decisions, and potential economic growth.

And right now, it seems like every country across the world is losing control, and the The country sitting in the eye of the storm is the United States, but we need to back up first.

On August 18, the 30-year touched the highest level in 19 years.

The very next morning, the Treasury decided it was time to step in and do something about it.

Oh no!

Oh yeah!

Then on August 19, the United States Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besant, announced the Treasury was doubling the size of its buyback operations at the long end,

$2 billion per operation now becomes at least $4 billion.

The plan was that the extra buying pressure would drive long-end bond prices up, and as those bond prices rise, their interest rates would naturally fall.

Then the next day, after this accelerated buyback was announced, Scott Besant went on television and said,

My job is to make sure that the market is looking at fundamentals and that the market does not dictate policy.

That was the sentence that caused the entire finance industry to erupt." Five days after Besant said this on national television, on the evening of August 24,

The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece called Let the Bond Market Speak.

It was written by Stanley Druckenmiller.

Druckenmiller is a billionaire hedge fund manager and widely considered one of the greatest investors of all time.

He started his career at George Soros' Quantum Fund, where he worked for over a decade.

He then launched his own hedge fund, Duquesne Capital, where, across nearly three decades, he averaged 30% annual returns without recording a single losing year.

He was also behind one of the most famous trades in Wall Street history, the 1992 trade where he became known as the investor who broke the Bank of England.

His piece in the Wall Street Journal opened with, I have spent five decades trading on a simple premise.

Markets aggregate information no committee possesses, and prices are how that information reaches decision makers.

His argument is simple.

He argues this isn't really about buybacks.

He wrote that, The long-term treasury yield is the most important price in the world, and that it is also the only fiscal disciplinarian the United States has left.

He believes that nothing inside American politics forces anyone to deal with the debt.

No rule makes Congress balance a budget.

No politician loses an election for letting the debt grow and nobody wins one by promising to take something away.

Which leaves one thing that still puts a gauge on all of it.

The rate lenders charge America, because that one arrives as a bill America has to pay for.

Which is why Treasury yields act as the last disciplinarian, the only critic Washington can't ignore, because it's the only one that has to be paid.

Druckenmiller's issue is that, "...every basis point of artificial yield suppression," he wrote, "...is a subsidy to procrastination." Then he wrote the sentence, the whole fight hangs on,

a line so powerful it can only be compared to the time Eminem rapped about his mom's spaghetti.

If the 30-year must trade at 5.5% to clear, that isn't a crisis.

It is an invoice.

Then do the only thing that durably lowers long-term yields, address the primary deficit.

But here's the key detail that turned a policy disagreement into a finance story for the history books.

Think about the great matchups in history, Jordan and the Pistons in the 90s, Luke and Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back, and Rocky and Apollo Creed.

Well, now we have a new one to add to the list.

Stanley Druckenmiller and Scott Besant.

These are two legends, two titans of industry, two men who almost certainly own the same quarter zip and belong to the same country club.

Alright, so maybe there were no punches or lightsabers.

But what there was was a public argument so ugly, the entire finance industry started watching.

Druckenmiller and Besant aren't just two guys who know each other.

They are mentor and protege.

Scott Besant got his start in finance working for Stanley Druckenmiller.

He hired Scott Besant at Soros in 1991.

So this isn't a critic the Treasury Secretary can wave off.

This is the man he learned the job from in the Wall Street Journal, explaining that he's doing it wrong.

It's like your old boss posting about you on LinkedIn and tagging your current employer.

And Besant didn't take it well.

He answered a week later, on television, from a G20 meeting in Asheville.

He said, Stan's a great investor.

He changes his mind a lot, and he doesn't like losing money.

I think he lost money the day he sent in the editorial.

Besant called him by his nickname, and then told him the financial equivalent of cry about it.

So we have one man saying that the market price is information, and you're supposed to listen to it.

The other says the price is an opinion, and policy doesn't take orders from opinions.

Which leaves the question, if Besant isn't going to listen to the market, then what exactly is the plan?

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Now back to America trying to fix the largest debt problem in human history.

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When economists ask whether a country's debt is a problem, they don't look at the debt.

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They look at the debt against the size of the economy underneath it, what's called the debt to GDP ratio.

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It's what every rating agency and every bond desk actually watches.

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And a country that wants that ratio down has exactly three ways to get there.

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Cut spending, raise revenue, or grow faster than you borrow.

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That's the entire list.

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Every fiscal plan in history starts from some mix of those three doors.

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So let's start with the first door, cutting spending.

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America's spending problem isn't a thousand small items that add up to a lot.

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It's five big ones—Social Security, Medicare, Net Interest, Health, and National Defense.

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Those five are about 78% of everything the federal government spends, which means any spending cuts that could actually move the needle have to come out of that list.

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Anything else is theatrics.

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And we know Besson's position on cutting spending because he said it very clearly.

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If anything, defense spending needs to rise.

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In the same remarks on the entitlement programs, he said, The next four years isn't the time to deal with them.

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So not a cut.

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In fact, the opposite of a cut.

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Which brings us to door number two, raising revenues.

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A few months ago, in front of the Senate Finance Committee, he was just as clear with this.

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We do not have a collections problem.

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We have a spending problem.

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And we have a growth problem.

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Which is very strange.

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He names spending as a problem, then says now is not the time to be addressing spending.

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So we're left with one door standing, growth.

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And in classic Besant fashion, he laid out his feelings clearly on this.

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The fundamentals are ultimately what is going to prevail here in the bond market, and the fundamentals are hard to ignore when it comes to the size of our debt,

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with public debt increasing to now $40 trillion.

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Yeah, I mean, look, Sarah, there's nothing magic about the $40 trillion number, and we We can grow our way out of that.

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That's the plan.

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Besant said, we're going to grow our way out of this.

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The strategy he laid out for achieving this is called 3-3-3.

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Three percent real GDP growth, the federal deficit cut to three percent of GDP, and three million more barrels of oil a day, or the equivalent from other energy sources.

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And the deadline for all of this is 2028.

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But let's take a look at how the plan's actually going, starting with energy.

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That's because the wording of the target is the one actually doing the work here.

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The target isn't three million barrels of oil, it's three million barrels of oil equivalent, which means natural gas counts.

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On crude alone, this isn't close.

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Crude output is already at record levels, and forecasts estimate marginal gains at best.

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But natural gas is also at an all-time high, and it's climbed almost every year for the better part of a decade.

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Check the two together and the combined number is set to clear the target.

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So target one clears, right up until you check where the bar was set.

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Over Biden's four years, American oil and gas production rose about 4.5 million barrels a day of oil equivalent.

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Over Trump's first term, before the pandemic, in under three years, it rose about 8.5 million.

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The target for Besant's master plan to fix the economy is 3 million.

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So the goal was never ambitious.

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It would be like if Shaq set a goal to dunk on an eight-foot basketball hoop.

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picked a target for energy that was going to be hit, whether anybody did anything or not.

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And the only reason a treasury secretary wants barrels is that cheap energy makes everything cheaper to produce, which is supposed to show up as growth,

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which means the energy target was never about energy.

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It was really about growth, the second number in his plan.

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The growth target Besant outlined is 3% real GDP growth.

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This year the economy grew 2.1% in the first quarter, 1.5 in the second, so 1.8 for the first half of the year, against a target of three.

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Besant's response to this is patience.

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He argues that America is on the cusp of a large productivity gain from AI investment, and his guess is we start seeing the benefits in the next six months.

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But the reality is, the strategy of having patience and waiting for AI to save us makes zero sense.

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While productivity gains from new technologies genuinely do lag, patience only works if conditions are about to get better,

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and conditions right now for growth are about as good as they have ever been.

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Business spending on equipment and intangibles is up around 9% over four quarters, the fastest since 2021.

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Equipment alone rose 13.6% in the second quarter, and the largest pieces of that are computers and software.

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We're in the middle of the largest capital build-out in American history, but the benefits aren't showing up in the data.

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So this isn't an economy waiting for a catalyst.

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The catalyst is already here, and real growth still printed 1.8 for the first half of the year.

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Which leaves two possibilities.

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Either the money hasn't reached the output numbers yet, and Besant is right to wait.

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Or 1.8 isn't the floor, it's the ceiling.

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Which brings us to the final number in Besant's plan, the deficit.

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Over the first ten months of this fiscal year, the government collected $4.5 trillion and spent $6.3.

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For every dollar in, about $1.40 went out.

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That puts the deficit at nearly 6% of GDP.

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The 50-year average is 3.8.

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The target is 3.

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So this isn't a near miss.

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It's around double.

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And it's only getting worse.

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The Congressional Budget Office has it widening to 6.7% by 2036.

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Which leaves the obvious question.

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If the debt is this big, the interest is this big, and the deficit is double the target, why isn't this already a full-blown crisis? basis.

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There's an answer.

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America's economy still grows faster than it borrows.

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The average rate across everything the United States owes is around 3.5%.

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The economy, in dollar terms, grew at about 6.5% over the past year.

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And when the rate you pay is lower than the rate you grow, the old debt gets smaller against the economy all by itself.

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The weight of it comes down without anyone repaying a single dollar of principal.

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I try to read through all of them.

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And here's the part that traditional media tends to leave out of this whole discussion.

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Growing faster than your debt doesn't mean you can borrow whatever you want.

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It gives you breathing room, a specific, measurable amount of room to run a deficit inside and still hold the line.

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But if you extend past that breathing room, the debt climbs anyway, no matter how good the gap looks, which is exactly what's happening to the United States.

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Federal debt held by the public is a little over 100% of GDP.

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The Congressional Budget Office has it at 120% by 2036.

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So the debt load is still climbing, while growth is beating the interest rate by three full points.

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And the breathing room we have is closing.

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The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget set the date.

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2031. That's when the two lines meet.

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That's the year the rate America pays to borrow passes the rate the economy grows.

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Which means after 2031, if nothing changes, the breathing room not only stops, it flips.

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We go from having breathing room to having someone suck the oxygen out of the room.

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Once interest rates cross above growth, running a smaller deficit won't be enough to stabilize the debt.

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To hold the line, the government would have to run a primary surplus

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and collect more than it spends on everything except interest.

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So the question was never whether America can outgrow its debt.

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It's whether America can outgrow its deficit.

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Cunning America has managed 12 times in the last 50 years.

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And instead of addressing the primary deficit like Druckenmiller mentioned, Besant chose a plan that rests on a variable we can't control.

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Because cutting spending is a decision.

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Taxing to raise revenues is a decision.

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They're brutal, and they're painful, but they're available options.

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Somebody can vote for them and put them in place.

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But growth is not a decision.

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Nobody can vote for 3% real growth.

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There's no bill you can pass that produces it.

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All you can do is build the conditions and hope.

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And America just built the best conditions in a generation.

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The largest capital build-out in history.

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Business investment at its fastest pace since 2021.

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The exact thing the Treasury is counting on, already here.

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But real growth over the first half of this year still came back at just over half the target.

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So the Secretary of the Treasury's plan to fix the largest

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debt in human history rests entirely on the one input nobody controls.

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Придаточные определительные who / which + предложение — уточнение о человеке или предмете	deficit, which means · men who almost · guys who know
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	has ever beaten · have spent · has left

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