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Thu Jul 16, 2026, 04:46 PM 18 hrs ago

USA Economy BREAKING - Interest Beats Military, IMF Warns, Top 10% Spend as Much as Bottom 70% - House of El

From yesterday...



America is borrowing at a pace that no longer looks cyclical — it looks structural. As debt costs surge, global growth weakens, and foreign buyers step back from US Treasuries, the numbers are beginning to reveal a system under pressure from every direction.

💵 The United States is borrowing roughly $155 billion every month while interest costs on the national debt continue to climb
📉 Debt servicing is now consuming more than some of the country’s largest federal departments combined
🌍 The IMF has cut global growth forecasts, citing the impact of the renewed US-Iran conflict and rising oil prices
🛢️ Inflation progress has been erased as energy volatility spreads through the global economy
🏦 America’s consumer economy is increasingly K-shaped, with the top ten percent spending almost as much on non-essentials as the bottom seventy percent combined
⚡ The administration is cutting clean energy support at the same time the IMF identifies AI and renewable energy as forces holding global growth together
🥇 Foreign demand for US Treasuries is weakening as China sells, Japan intervenes, Europe buys less, and central banks move further into gold
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