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🇺🇸 🇨🇳 America's debt doom loop has already started spinning, and there's no exit built into it. Economist Chris Martenson lays out the mechanism in a single line: "The more they borrow, the more the rates go up. The more the rates go up, the more the interest payments... show more

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