Mike Norman Economics

Please help me with coming up for an explanation for the national debt discussion. 

From mid January 2025. 

Leading spending flow are still rising.

Democrat rate policy still has US overnight risk free IOR rate at 4.9% so what is so bad about a 10yr risk free UST rate of 4.2%?  It’s still significantly inverted over time …  usual Art degree moron suspects going apoplectic meanwhile a significantly inverted yield curve… hard to understand how these peoples brains work… 🤔

I had to get a lot of things off my chest. 

They’re gonna lose

A lot of you have been asking. 

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