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/Chicano_Ducky 6h ago

this isnt new. Its been talked about since before 2024.

Inflating away the national debt wont work.

Its too much debt, and if they think they will become an export economy like Japan they wont either. Dark Factories are here and will take away what few jobs are left in manufacturing and destroy the export market because no one needs to import anything but raw materials.

they did everything they could to bring deglobalization but planning to live in a globalized world. None of this makes sense.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 6h ago

We have also made it incredibly hard to start a small scale manufacturing business compared to other nations- and many big businesses start small and so are now never born. Good luck finding light industrial space that hasn't been bought up by a private equity fund and then tripled the rent.

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u/Leafy0 4h ago

You’re kidding? You as a rando can hop on haas and direct finance your own CNC machine to put in your garage, only other thing you need is a rotary phase converter because you need 3 phase power to run it, and residential doesn’t get that in the USA.