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The credit system functions like a circulatory system that delivers nutrients and buying power to various parts of the economy. A system is considered healthy when borrowed money is used to generate productivity, which in turn produces income. However, it becomes unhealthy when debts and debt service costs increase... show more

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Yes, we are past the point of no return. When debt service payments squeeze out spending, it is like plaque in the circulatory system squeezing out the flow of blood. It is the same kind of thing, and it can be measured. We are seeing that happen right now. There is also a supply and demand issue. A budget deficit means that debt has to be sold. We can see this happening in the bond market—bonds have been a bad investment, and there is pressure on interest rates and borrowing. This dynamic is happening, but people are treating it like it hasn't happened before. They don't understand that, just like plaque in the arteries, the debt builds up and they have that exposure.

Yes, we are past the point of no return. When debt service payments squeeze out spending, it is like plaque in the circulatory system squeezing out the flow of blood. It is the same kind of thing, and it can be measured. We are seeing that happen right now. There is also a supply and demand issue. A budget deficit means that debt has to be sold. We can see this happening in the bond market—bonds have been a bad investment, and there is pressure on interest rates and borrowing. This dynamic is happening, but people are treating it like it hasn't happened before. They don't understand that, just like plaque in the arteries, the debt builds up and they have that exposure.

Ray Dalio

508,915 views • 16 days ago

Money is debt, and debt is money. It confuses a lot of people when I say that, but the mechanics are fairly straightforward. A debt instrument is just a promise to deliver money in the future. What that money is worth determines the value of what you’re holding. That’s why currency valuation is so critical, and why I think people need to pay more attention to it when thinking about the broader economy. Nikhil Kamath

Money is debt, and debt is money. It confuses a lot of people when I say that, but the mechanics are fairly straightforward. A debt instrument is just a promise to deliver money in the future. What that money is worth determines the value of what you’re holding. That’s why currency valuation is so critical, and why I think people need to pay more attention to it when thinking about the broader economy. Nikhil Kamath

Ray Dalio

247,036 views • 4 months ago

𝗛𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝘀 𝗥𝗼𝘁𝗵𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 In 1932, German unemployment reached 30%, with nearly 7 million Germans unemployed. The country was burdened with significant debt to foreign powers. When Hitler came to power, he aimed to restore the German economy and liberate the nation from a debt-based system. Similar to Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, Hitler began issuing debt-free money. The subsequent events shaped history as we know it. The rest as they say is history.

𝗛𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝘀 𝗥𝗼𝘁𝗵𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 In 1932, German unemployment reached 30%, with nearly 7 million Germans unemployed. The country was burdened with significant debt to foreign powers. When Hitler came to power, he aimed to restore the German economy and liberate the nation from a debt-based system. Similar to Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, Hitler began issuing debt-free money. The subsequent events shaped history as we know it. The rest as they say is history.

Shadow of Ezra

2,646,624 views • 2 years ago

Debt is often seen as a way to fund luxury items like a Range Rover, but a smarter approach is to use debt as a tool for wealth creation. Instead of buying depreciating assets, wise individuals invest borrowed money into ventures that generate income. For example, using debt to invest in a factory creates jobs, revenue, and long-term financial growth. Similarly, borrowing to hire skilled workers boosts productivity and profitability. By focusing on these kinds of investments, debt becomes a pathway to lasting prosperity rather than a burden.

Debt is often seen as a way to fund luxury items like a Range Rover, but a smarter approach is to use debt as a tool for wealth creation. Instead of buying depreciating assets, wise individuals invest borrowed money into ventures that generate income. For example, using debt to invest in a factory creates jobs, revenue, and long-term financial growth. Similarly, borrowing to hire skilled workers boosts productivity and profitability. By focusing on these kinds of investments, debt becomes a pathway to lasting prosperity rather than a burden.

VT

11,372 views • 1 year ago

When debt levels reach extreme sizes relative to income, governments are left with a limited set of choices. They can cut spending, raise taxes, restructure the debt, or print money. History shows that most systems end up relying heavily on the last option, but printing money doesn’t eliminate the problem–it just shifts how the debt cycle plays out. Understanding this dynamic is key to understanding the economic environment we’re in.

When debt levels reach extreme sizes relative to income, governments are left with a limited set of choices. They can cut spending, raise taxes, restructure the debt, or print money. History shows that most systems end up relying heavily on the last option, but printing money doesn’t eliminate the problem–it just shifts how the debt cycle plays out. Understanding this dynamic is key to understanding the economic environment we’re in.

Ray Dalio

95,427 views • 2 months ago

Ray Dalio explains how financial repression begins once the debt problem gets out of control. It starts with a simple reality: One man’s debt is another man’s asset. Government debt is not just a liability for the government. It is also the asset sitting inside pension funds, banks, insurance companies, foreign reserves and portfolios. But here is the problem. If those bonds do not offer a good real return after inflation, investors stop wanting them. So yields rise. And when yields rise, the government’s debt burden becomes even harder to manage. That is the trap. At some point, the system cannot tolerate true market-priced interest rates anymore. So policy steps in. The Treasury keeps issuing debt. The Fed is pressured to help absorb it or suppress yields. Inflation is allowed to run above bond returns. Taxes on capital and wealth rise. And savers are slowly paid back in money that buys less. This is financial repression. It does not look like default on paper. But in real purchasing power terms, it is a slow default on savers. That is why Dalio keeps pointing toward gold. Because when bonds stop protecting real wealth, capital starts looking for assets outside the paper promise system. The core message is simple: The government needs cheap funding. Investors need real returns. Both cannot win at the same time. And historically, when the debt burden becomes too large, policy chooses the debtor over the saver.

Ray Dalio explains how financial repression begins once the debt problem gets out of control. It starts with a simple reality: One man’s debt is another man’s asset. Government debt is not just a liability for the government. It is also the asset sitting inside pension funds, banks, insurance companies, foreign reserves and portfolios. But here is the problem. If those bonds do not offer a good real return after inflation, investors stop wanting them. So yields rise. And when yields rise, the government’s debt burden becomes even harder to manage. That is the trap. At some point, the system cannot tolerate true market-priced interest rates anymore. So policy steps in. The Treasury keeps issuing debt. The Fed is pressured to help absorb it or suppress yields. Inflation is allowed to run above bond returns. Taxes on capital and wealth rise. And savers are slowly paid back in money that buys less. This is financial repression. It does not look like default on paper. But in real purchasing power terms, it is a slow default on savers. That is why Dalio keeps pointing toward gold. Because when bonds stop protecting real wealth, capital starts looking for assets outside the paper promise system. The core message is simple: The government needs cheap funding. Investors need real returns. Both cannot win at the same time. And historically, when the debt burden becomes too large, policy chooses the debtor over the saver.

Macro Liquidity by Sunil Reddy

11,660 views • 2 months ago

When debt levels reach extreme sizes relative to income, governments are left with a limited set of choices. They can cut spending, raise taxes, restructure the debt, or print money. History shows that most systems end up relying heavily on the last option, but printing money doesn’t eliminate the problem–it just shifts how the debt cycle plays out. Understanding this dynamic is key to understanding the economic environment we’re in.

When debt levels reach extreme sizes relative to income, governments are left with a limited set of choices. They can cut spending, raise taxes, restructure the debt, or print money. History shows that most systems end up relying heavily on the last option, but printing money doesn’t eliminate the problem–it just shifts how the debt cycle plays out. Understanding this dynamic is key to understanding the economic environment we’re in.

Ray Dalio

155,829 views • 3 months ago

Most people use debt to get poor. They buy a house, build equity over decades, and stop there. The wealth is locked in a primary residence, doing nothing. The ones who get rich do something different. They take that same principle, the same velocity, and apply it to an asset that produces cash flow. A rental property. A business. Something that generates income while the debt pays itself down. The bank already knows this. Every loan they write is backed by collateral. They are not lending against your income. They are lending against the asset. And if you default, they take the asset and recover the debt. That is the whole game. Find an asset a lender would take back. Acquire it. Let the cash flow service the debt. Own it free and clear on the other side. Good debt makes you richer. Most people just never learned the difference.

Most people use debt to get poor. They buy a house, build equity over decades, and stop there. The wealth is locked in a primary residence, doing nothing. The ones who get rich do something different. They take that same principle, the same velocity, and apply it to an asset that produces cash flow. A rental property. A business. Something that generates income while the debt pays itself down. The bank already knows this. Every loan they write is backed by collateral. They are not lending against your income. They are lending against the asset. And if you default, they take the asset and recover the debt. That is the whole game. Find an asset a lender would take back. Acquire it. Let the cash flow service the debt. Own it free and clear on the other side. Good debt makes you richer. Most people just never learned the difference.

Ken McElroy

44,838 views • 1 month ago

AI and robots are our way out of the debt trap. I know that sounds insane… but when you play it through, it's the only story that adds up. Every economy on earth runs on population plus productivity plus debt. When the first two stall, the only lever left is to pile on debt to hold the line. That's why debt to GDP has climbed across the developed world for decades, and no policy or austerity package has ever managed to stop it. But here's what changes it. AI and robots become the new workforce… One that doesn't age or retire, and never asks for a raise or a pension. When this scales productivity moves again, GDP outgrows debt, and debt to GDP starts falling for the first time in a generation. We saw it happen in the 1950s when America's post-war productivity boom cut debt to GDP in half. What's coming next is a much bigger version of that… The moment technology creates enough productivity to break the debt spiral for good. That's the Economic Singularity I've been telling you about.

AI and robots are our way out of the debt trap. I know that sounds insane… but when you play it through, it's the only story that adds up. Every economy on earth runs on population plus productivity plus debt. When the first two stall, the only lever left is to pile on debt to hold the line. That's why debt to GDP has climbed across the developed world for decades, and no policy or austerity package has ever managed to stop it. But here's what changes it. AI and robots become the new workforce… One that doesn't age or retire, and never asks for a raise or a pension. When this scales productivity moves again, GDP outgrows debt, and debt to GDP starts falling for the first time in a generation. We saw it happen in the 1950s when America's post-war productivity boom cut debt to GDP in half. What's coming next is a much bigger version of that… The moment technology creates enough productivity to break the debt spiral for good. That's the Economic Singularity I've been telling you about.

Raoul Pal

84,789 views • 4 days ago

🇺🇸 Epstein outlines the influence of financial capital through debt. For every dollar held by the bank, it can lend out 10 in "our system." : "Many world leaders who don't really have a financial underpinning make fundamental errors when it comes to money. Let me give you an example. If your assets increased last year, you'd say that sounds pretty good. And if your debt increased, would you feel wealthy or poorer? You say, well, I don't want to have increased debt. I don't like the idea. When I say, you doubled your assets. Sounds good, but what does it really mean? It means people owe you more money. You don't have any more money." *The Dollar Represents a Debt That Will Never Be Paid Off

🇺🇸 Epstein outlines the influence of financial capital through debt. For every dollar held by the bank, it can lend out 10 in "our system." : "Many world leaders who don't really have a financial underpinning make fundamental errors when it comes to money. Let me give you an example. If your assets increased last year, you'd say that sounds pretty good. And if your debt increased, would you feel wealthy or poorer? You say, well, I don't want to have increased debt. I don't like the idea. When I say, you doubled your assets. Sounds good, but what does it really mean? It means people owe you more money. You don't have any more money." *The Dollar Represents a Debt That Will Never Be Paid Off

Lord Bebo

39,722 views • 6 months ago

"The debt, the border, China and our educational system." This is one of the supposed moderates in the GOP caucus saying that all Republicans are unified because they see "our educational system" as a primary threat to the country.

"The debt, the border, China and our educational system." This is one of the supposed moderates in the GOP caucus saying that all Republicans are unified because they see "our educational system" as a primary threat to the country.

Josh Marshall

225,900 views • 3 years ago

Fine: When you're $40 trillion in debt and the things that you're paying for are being borrowed from your children and grandchildren, the question is no longer whether something is a good idea. The question is it worth driving us further into debt to do it.

Fine: When you're $40 trillion in debt and the things that you're paying for are being borrowed from your children and grandchildren, the question is no longer whether something is a good idea. The question is it worth driving us further into debt to do it.

Acyn

35,900 views • 1 month ago

Caleb Hammer & Joe Rogan discuss personal finance classes & student loan debt "Kind of a crime that they're not explaining to ppl when they're young and in high school..how this could be a problem..one of the biggest problems that most ppl face, credit card debt and the big one, student loan debt" -JR "The average parent in America..go to any college..borrow whatever it takes..college is the answer to all" -CH "It used to be..what they don't tell u..u will be saddled down with insane amounts of debt and that debt compounds" -JR (Via Joe Rogan Experience 2509)

Caleb Hammer & Joe Rogan discuss personal finance classes & student loan debt "Kind of a crime that they're not explaining to ppl when they're young and in high school..how this could be a problem..one of the biggest problems that most ppl face, credit card debt and the big one, student loan debt" -JR "The average parent in America..go to any college..borrow whatever it takes..college is the answer to all" -CH "It used to be..what they don't tell u..u will be saddled down with insane amounts of debt and that debt compounds" -JR (Via Joe Rogan Experience 2509)

yeet

18,989 views • 2 months ago

The basic picture has not changed — if the US doesn’t cut the deficit to 3% of the GDP, and soon, we risk facing an economic heart attack in the next three years. The good news is that these cuts are possible. If we change spending and income (tax returns) by 4% while the economy is still good, the interest rate will go down as a result and we’ll be in a much better situation. And we know this kind of balance is possible because it happened between 1991-1998. My fear is that we will probably not make these needed cuts due to political reasons, and will have even more debt and debt service encroaching on our spending that will ultimately lead to a serious supply-demand problem.

The basic picture has not changed — if the US doesn’t cut the deficit to 3% of the GDP, and soon, we risk facing an economic heart attack in the next three years. The good news is that these cuts are possible. If we change spending and income (tax returns) by 4% while the economy is still good, the interest rate will go down as a result and we’ll be in a much better situation. And we know this kind of balance is possible because it happened between 1991-1998. My fear is that we will probably not make these needed cuts due to political reasons, and will have even more debt and debt service encroaching on our spending that will ultimately lead to a serious supply-demand problem.

Ray Dalio

138,492 views • 1 year ago

When I look at the US and global debt burdens and how countries are likely to respond, I worry about the possibility of creating a stagflationary environment. Our financial system is dependent on the idea that you can take a debt asset and convert it into money. But now there’s not enough money to go around. That makes the idea of devaluing the dollar relative to other currencies appealing — but the other currencies won’t want much of an appreciation either. That’s one of the reasons I say that gold will be a better performing asset.

When I look at the US and global debt burdens and how countries are likely to respond, I worry about the possibility of creating a stagflationary environment. Our financial system is dependent on the idea that you can take a debt asset and convert it into money. But now there’s not enough money to go around. That makes the idea of devaluing the dollar relative to other currencies appealing — but the other currencies won’t want much of an appreciation either. That’s one of the reasons I say that gold will be a better performing asset.

Ray Dalio

253,673 views • 11 months ago

BANNON: The coming debt emergency starts with a failed Treasury auction, when demand collapses and debt has to be sold at higher yields, repricing risk across the system. Charles Gasparino says Treasury and the Fed may be signaling a new 3% inflation target instead of the Fed’s traditional 2%. That extra 1% is a big deal bc rolls through credit cards, mortgages, car loans, everything.

BANNON: The coming debt emergency starts with a failed Treasury auction, when demand collapses and debt has to be sold at higher yields, repricing risk across the system. Charles Gasparino says Treasury and the Fed may be signaling a new 3% inflation target instead of the Fed’s traditional 2%. That extra 1% is a big deal bc rolls through credit cards, mortgages, car loans, everything.

Grace Chong, MBI

27,284 views • 9 months ago

📣📣WE ARE WITNESSING A MONETARY RESET 🚨🚨 This is a monetary reset not market speculation. Trust has been broken and people see that Fiat Currency is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all. Fiat Currency is backed by "The Full Faith and Credit" The US alone is racking up a Trillion in debt approximately every 100 days. It's roughly 3 Billion a day to service the debt. Fractional Reserve Banking This is where Banks create money out of debt. Since March 2020 Banks don't even need to hold the 10% reserve anymore. The system is backed by NOTHING FIAT CURRENCY IS A PONZI SCHEME

📣📣WE ARE WITNESSING A MONETARY RESET 🚨🚨 This is a monetary reset not market speculation. Trust has been broken and people see that Fiat Currency is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all. Fiat Currency is backed by "The Full Faith and Credit" The US alone is racking up a Trillion in debt approximately every 100 days. It's roughly 3 Billion a day to service the debt. Fractional Reserve Banking This is where Banks create money out of debt. Since March 2020 Banks don't even need to hold the 10% reserve anymore. The system is backed by NOTHING FIAT CURRENCY IS A PONZI SCHEME

Stephanie 🇬🇧🇺🇸🦍

26,198 views • 6 months ago

I just asked David Hunter about the other side of the next global bust, and he laid out a macro equation the financial system simply cannot solve. He projects central banks will be forced to print upwards of $50 trillion to save the system, driving inflation to 25% and pushing interest rates into the high teens. But with global debt swelling to $450 trillion, the math completely breaks down. As he told me: "We can't service our debt at 5%. I don't know how we're gonna service it at 15 or 20%." Watch the full breakdown Kitco NEWS

I just asked David Hunter about the other side of the next global bust, and he laid out a macro equation the financial system simply cannot solve. He projects central banks will be forced to print upwards of $50 trillion to save the system, driving inflation to 25% and pushing interest rates into the high teens. But with global debt swelling to $450 trillion, the math completely breaks down. As he told me: "We can't service our debt at 5%. I don't know how we're gonna service it at 15 or 20%." Watch the full breakdown Kitco NEWS

Jeremy Szafron

133,798 views • 2 months ago