is the us national debt even a real thing anymore?  is there any expectation that it will ever be paid back? we can just borrow infinite amounts of money into existence from the treasury anytime we need a stimulus, and foreign countries and firms have to keep buying the bonds or else the entire system (including their own economies and companies) collapses. we seem to have the rest of the world by the balls, so where is the incentive to try and make that number shrink?
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