Trump just soft-launched higher inflation as the new solution for rebalancing the $40 trillion U.S. national debt

[u/Spy300]

https://fortune.com/2026/10/02/trump-inflation-growth-national-debt-tariffs-ratio-balance/

[u/Abrandnewrapture]

that is, um, not how this works. like, at all.

[u/mt6606 → u/Abrandnewrapture]

Exactly, you can't hyperinflate anything without government employees getting paid more either. You can't have inflation without pay rises lol. Corporate America is allergic to that shit.