Spiralling Government Debt Isn’t a Choice

Every hyperinflation looked the same. “Hyperinflations are always caused by public budget deficits which are largely financed by money creation.” But even more interestingly, Bernholz identified the level at which hyperinflations can start. He concluded that “the figures demonstrate clearly that deficits amounting to 40 percent or more of expenditu

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A country with well over 100% debt-to-GDP has two main choices in this scenario. The first choice is that they can keep interest rates very low despite periods of price inflation that occurs, and debase all of the currency holders and bond holders. Japan is far enough into fiscal dominance that they’ve chosen that route. The second choice is that t

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While many focus on our rising interest costs to service our rising debt amounts I dont much care. We pay our interest to our citizens. Our existing debt service costs are mostly just a small symptom of the theft. The big thing to worry about is our primary deficit. That has grown far faster than our interest cost. Each year our primary deficit lay

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