The current narrative surrounding the U.S. economy is an anxious drumbeat of doom, much of it splashed across the headlines by pundits who mix prophecy with data until you can't tell fear from fact. But let's step back, ditch the theatrics, and run the numbers like an economist with skin in the game and no patience for ideological fluff. Here's the sober, unfiltered truth: the U.S. economy isn’t collapsing, but it is in a structurally unsound position—and the stress fractures are becoming too large to plaster over with stimulus checks and Fed jargon. These aren't signs of an impending rapture, but symptoms of an economy trapped by its own contradictions: rising debt, declining productivity, and a misallocation of capital on…

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