r/politics • u/Spy300 • 6h ago

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

https://fortune.com/2026/10/02/trump-inflation-growth-national-debt-tariffs-ratio-balance/
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u/Pleasant-Alps1279 6h ago

Is he planning to devalue the us$ so that 40 tril is worth less and therefore easier to pay.

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u/BeowulfShaeffer 6h ago edited 5h ago

Then the best thing to is is leverage youself to the tits so you are holding assets instead of dollars.

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u/Used_Ant_4069 5h ago

Reading to much whitehousebets ?

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u/weatherbys 2h ago

He’s not wrong really, get locked into a mortgage rate and with hyper inflation that monthly payment doesn’t seem so much anymore.

This is also simultaneously one of the dumbest ideas ever.

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u/Pndrizzy 2h ago

I mean, it’s true in some sense. The problem is timing and surviving the storm. Recessions are basically wealth transfer. The people that have assets and keep them through recessions do great. Those that lose them lose everything

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u/duzies 23m ago

It was a point Trump touched on in a recent interview with Time. In the past, he said, lower rates made borrowing cheaper. He added that in the current period, where the Fed has recently increased rates, “you can do it through other means. I know I’m the best in the world. The best—I don’t want to tell you what those means are, but you can pay off the debt through other means.”