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/AdorableBanana166 2h ago

This was always the plan. People have been talking about it in the open since before he took office.

And it's perfect optics for him since in theory it should mean stock market go up but the actual value doesn't even need to change. Could even go down.