The Perpetual Debt Machine: How Uncle Sam Keeps the Circus Going Hundreds of times a year, the U.S. Treasury auctions off its lifeblood—bills, bonds, and notes—just to keep the bloated government machine on life support. It’s the mother of all Ponzi schemes: borrowing more to cover past spending sprees, with the next generation stuck holding the bag. Every auction is a bet that someone—anyone—will be gullible enough to keep buying Uncle Sam’s IOUs. But beneath the polished veneer of fiscal responsibility lies a dirty secret: these auctions are the only thing keeping the entire U.S. economy from keeling over. They’re a life support system for a beast that can never pay back what it owes—only kick the can down the…
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