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J.P. Morgan’s David Kelly warned this week that while America is “going broke” it’s doing so slowly enough that markets aren’t panicking yet. With U.S. national debt now topping $37.8 trillion and interest payments exceeding $1.2 trillion, Kelly said the debt-to-GDP ratio—already at 99.9%—will likely keep rising even under moderate growth. Despite tariff revenues and temporary deficit relief, he cautioned that political choices or a slowdown could quickly worsen the fiscal picture, urging investors to diversify away from U.S. assets before “going broke slowly” turns fast.
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RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,642 posts)White supremacy isn't what it's cracked up to be.
bronxiteforever
(11,022 posts)the Country. He exercises military power like a toddler and uses economic policy to enrich himself and his grifting offspring. The middle class is on its last legs while the wealthy party the coming deluge away.
All this self inflicted economic damage is going to bring us down. It doesn’t take a Nobel prize to know that the dry rot has infiltrated the structure. Time is short. We need both houses in 2026.
ananda
(34,191 posts)Give him a brass trophy.
PatSeg
(51,743 posts)He truly has outdone himself this time - definitely deserves a trophy!
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(12,419 posts)PatSeg
(51,743 posts)Donald Trump is the primary source of their problems, plus the republican politicians who wouldn't stand up to him. But yeah, some will blame Democrats out of habit. Hard to undo the many years of brainwashing.
bucolic_frolic
(53,601 posts)He hollows out everything without all that M&A legalese scaffolding.
Vogon_Glory
(10,153 posts)That’s why right-wingers practice “borrow and spend” funding practices and run up deficits and debt. It’s been a flagrant part of the MO since Buckaroo Bush was inaugurated back in 2001. They want to cripple the federal government’s abilities to respond to crises either to enrich billionaires or for their faulty ideologies.
This has been around for DECADES, Mr. Kelly. And you only noticed it NOW???
OldBaldy1701E
(9,812 posts)Hypocrite says whut?
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Or is it just reflex cynicism?
OldBaldy1701E
(9,812 posts)Between looking at the nothing that my life is and learning that I will have to forgo another drug or service because I cannot afford to even think about them, I should not have said anything.
Not exactly a fountain of praise for our socioeconomic situation these days, I am afraid.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Cynicism is one thing, often a cautionary thing, but reflex cynicism leads to false statements and mistakes.
If you had looked up, like I did, you'd find that Kelly is against tariffs, for example.
OldBaldy1701E
(9,812 posts)Response to OldBaldy1701E (Reply #21)
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Irish_Dem
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Farmer-Rick
(12,351 posts)Taxes are reduced on the filthy-rich. The US government doesn't have revenue to carry out necessary functions. The US government borrows money......guess who they borrow from?
The major owners, some say as much as two thirds, of US debt are other Americans, very very rich Americans who don't pay their fair share of taxes. The filthy-rich lend money to the US and get interest on their money. Money they should have paid in taxes. It's a win win for them. The more debt the US takes on, the better for the filthy-rich, the more interest they get from their stolen loot.
Look at how Greece crashed in the last great recession. They owed so much money because they didn't get their filthy-rich to pay their fair share in taxes to avoid having to take out loans, though they also bought into the credit default swap which didn't cover them in the crash. Eventually they couldn't get any more loans... Even the filthy-rich will stop lending to a government that they suspect won't pay them back.
Irish_Dem
(78,752 posts)And then when everything crashes the filthy risk have enough money to be OK.
The rest of us will suffer.
markodochartaigh
(4,791 posts)would do well to heed Yanis Varoufakis' warnings.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/greece-success-story-leaves-most-greeks-behind-by-yanis-varoufakis-2025-07
dugog55
(360 posts)What does that mean exactly? That Americans aren't paying enough for imported goods? We are already paying tax on income and now food and other goods. Now we should be paying more for everything to support his stupid tax cuts for the wealthy. That is a stupid statement by J. P. Morgan. They act like we are getting additional income from other countries. Does no one of supposed economic intelligence understand how tariffs work?
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)They didn't say it, so don't pretend they said it. If you actually did a search, like I did, you'd find that David Kelly, Ph.D. Economics, is against tariffs because they are a regressive tax on Americans.
I think you have misidentified a target.
Chasstev365
(6,901 posts)
Martin Eden
(15,256 posts)Repukes only look at the spending side of the ledger when addressing the deficit. They keep CUTTING TAXES FOR THE RICH, which ALWAYS adds to our national debt.
Are they TOO STUPID to realize that trickle-down economics has never worked, and the policies of Republican administrations add more debt than Democratic policies?
Some of them, maybe. But their long term strategy has been to STARVE THE BEAST. Choke off government revenues, point to budget deficits, then proclaim we can no longer afford the "ENTITLEMENTS" that hard working Americans have already paid for with deductions from every paycheck.
3Hotdogs
(14,890 posts)getting bigger bigger by spending less. OR you get a bigger shovel (Added income).
Now the maggots and Repuke politicians all talk about making the hole smaller (We gotta cut out wasteful spending and handouts and entitlements and welfare and free medical care for illegal immigrants (another lie).
But getting a bigger shovel? Nothing mentioned about that. Dave's wealth is estimated to be $300m. Does he need that? Could he ever spend it all? And then there's the billionaires and the corporations that pay no tax. A
And guess who doesn't pay tax? TRUMP !
No mention on any of the shovel part of the equation.
AnnaLee
(1,342 posts)Maybe to preserve personal wealth as US wealth is drained in the process.
Strelnikov_
(8,083 posts)“urging investors to diversify away from U.S. assets”
Farmer-Rick
(12,351 posts)If you consider loaning money for interest to the US that should have been paid in taxes to the country. Some say over 2 thirds of the debt is owned by America's filthy-rich.
They just hoard their wealth in tax dodges outside the US. Hording wealth is what led to the Republican Great Depression.
librechik
(30,947 posts)and crazy tariffs, I wonder how that happened Jamie (Secret Pervert) Diamond? I'm sure you got your cut.
MLWR
(723 posts)is wasting money right and left like it flows from a spigot. Now he wants to start two wars in South America, which will also cost billions. Take your complaints to Mr. Waste, Fraud and Abuse.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)I don't think you can. Are you indulging in reflex cynicism?
I found reputable reporting from multiple sources that directly refutes your claim, specifically referencing Dimon, CEO of J P Morgan.
Please post your reference or if you can't, then please self-delete your false statement.
Autumn
(48,704 posts)It's possible and likely they support any president that promises those tax cuts. I don't think anyone knows who he voted for but if it quacks like a duck...
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)You are not reflexively cynical, right? You are fact based, right? This may help you: https://www.jpmorganchase.com/content/dam/jpmorganchase/documents/about/political-engagement-report-2024.pdf Search it for the words president or trump. Compare the weight of Ds and Rs.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-jamie-dimon-endorsement-jpmorgan-chase/
More facts? https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-backs-surprising-tax-change/ar-AA1FSegu
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-jamie-dimon-endorsement-jpmorgan-chase/
Updated on: October 4, 2024 / 5:17 PM EDT / CBS News
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has not endorsed Donald Trump, the financial giant said Friday after the former president claimed in a social media post that the executive, America's most prominent banking industry leader, was supporting him.
"Jamie Dimon has not endorsed anyone. He has not endorsed a candidate," Joe Evangelisti, a spokesperson for the New York-based bank told CBS News in a statement.
The denial came after the Republican presidential nominee posted a screenshot on his Truth Social account falsely stating, "New: Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, has endorsed Trump for president."
Trump told NBC News he didn't know about the post, which was still visible on his account as of 5:10 p.m. Eastern Time.
Your turn, if you have any facts now is the time to post your facts. You have facts, right?
Autumn
(48,704 posts)Jefferies hasn't endorsed Mamdani yet. Does that mean he doesn't support him?
I'm not playing your game of someone said what he did or did not do. . I stand with what I posted . If it quacks like a duck... it's a fucking duck.
It's possible and likely they support any president that promises those tax cuts. I don't think anyone knows who he voted for but if it quacks like a duck...
That is my specific option
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Autumn
(48,704 posts)Morgan and Dimon were neutral in that election other than they said so. . No proof that they didn't vote for him.
I don't need to prove my opinion. I didn't brag about any facts.
There is a bit of a difference there.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)As if pointing to facts is "bragging". 
Maintaining an opinion against facts is confirmation bias.
You have no facts for your claim and the facts that do exist point to a neutral stance. But what do you care about facts? Not much it seems.
You have presented no facts for something that you state as if it were a fact. If it was "always", you would have lots of facts. You have nothing.
nitpicked
(1,564 posts)Since the 2000s, if not before.
His bio indicates that he was appointed by Bill Clinton in 1998 to head GAO (back in the days when the US tried to balance discretionary spending with revenues).
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)
nitpicked
(1,564 posts)The initial response to 9/11.
Then much later COVID.
poozwah
(388 posts)bankruptcy was planned long ago. republicans have long hated social programs that helped the middle and lower classes. in the seventies they realized that outright opposition to those policies would be suicidal and they adopted a starve the beast strategy then began to implement it with reagan’s tax cuts. tax cuts were and are enormously popular even though they only benefit a few, and the democrats, political expedient assholes that all politicians are, jumped on board the debt train which increased the speed of our decline into the financial hell we now reside. before reagan the total accumulated debt from our founding to the beginning of reagan’s 1st administration was about 3/4 of a trillion dollars. now we find ourselves some $30+ trillion in debt.
Mr.Bee
(1,540 posts)FDR had it right - A progressive tax system
The "ability-to-pay" principle, those people pay more in taxes
simply because they can afford to pay more.
Most European Countries have a 50% tax rate
and all their citizens are happy and well taken care of
including covered medical and health care.
As of 2025, the highest top personal income tax rates in Europe are
Denmark (55.9%), France (55.4%), and Austria (55%).
but America, tax cuts and tax cuts and tax cuts and...
'going broke slowly'
DFW
(59,592 posts)I’m in France at least three times a month for my job, and I speak the language. The French, while they are mostly content with their health care system, despise their tax system. They hate their wealth tax, which kicks in at under a million euros, their gold tax, which is 11.5% of anything you sell, and any number of tiny taxes that chip away at the purchasing power of the middle class. They especially dislike the sky-high 50% payroll tax (varies slightly with the salary level), which puts a serious damper on full-time jobs in the private sector. This excepts government bureaucrats, of which there are far too many. That last, by the way, goes for many EU countries, including Germany, where I live.
Though the French are the original Chauvins, there are no greater critics of the French government than the French, themselves, and their multiple-times-year strikes back that up. When the working man in France, of which we have a couple, so this comes from them, not some blog, nets a third of what his employer shells out to employ him, both employer AND employee are angry about it. No French government dares to offer major reform, either, because it never finds enough support in the parliament to pass. Goscinny and Uderzo, when they made up their fiercely resistant Gallic village that would not submit to Cæsar’s will, pretty much composed a perfect microcosm of France, itself.
dlk
(13,080 posts)The hypocrisy and ignorance are breathtaking.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)You would not want to be reflexively cynical, would you? So you have some facts before posting before posting, right? Please show your homework.
https://am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-management/adv/insights/market-insights/market-updates/notes-on-the-week-ahead/the-trouble-with-tariffs/
(emphasis added)
Progressive taxation rates are higher on the rich, which is as it should be, disproportionately "hurting" them by design instead of hurting the poor.
For another perspective, here is JP Morgan's 2024 political contribution / lobbying report. See if you can find the word "president" or the word "trump" in there. See if you can find a bias between D versus R in there.
https://www.jpmorganchase.com/content/dam/jpmorganchase/documents/about/political-engagement-report-2024.pdf
dlk
(13,080 posts)Please keep your judgmental pronouncements and comments to yourself. They are not accurate and they do not add anything to the discourse.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)... written by the same David Kelly of the OP:
https://am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-management/adv/insights/market-insights/market-updates/notes-on-the-week-ahead/the-trouble-with-tariffs/
The trouble with tariffs, to be succinct, is that they raise prices, slow economic growth, cut profits, increase unemployment, worsen inequality, diminish productivity and increase global tensions. Other than that, they’re fine.
That sure sounds like opposition. Do you not agree that it is opposition?
DU posters would do well to fact check before making claims.
dlk
(13,080 posts)n/t
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Bluetus
(2,079 posts)Yes, our finances are becoming critical, and as a consequence the Dollar is no longer the international standard and New York is no longer the financial capitol of the world. But those are all just symptoms of the real problem.
The real problem is that this concentration of vast amounts of wealth into the hands of a few, most of which don't give a shit about the USA in the first place, has created the situation where we are no longer the leading innovator in the world. In fact, we haven't been for more than a decade. Now the center of innovation for the most important industries in the 21st Century is in Asia.
Since WWII, Japan and Korea have steadily gained in technology and manufacturing. And in the past 20 years, China has come to dominate global manufacturing, first as a contractor to western companies, but now leading in their own products and companies. The US has become largely just a country of consumers that don't make much that anybody else wants. We are maintaining a lifestyle by rolling up debt, but that will soon come crashing down.
Think about it. What industries does the US dominate?
Autos? No way. We are down to just GM and Ford. Rivian is a rounding error. Tesla is a scam and moving into other areas. The big players (Toyota, Hyundai, VW) manufacture here, but the profits go abroad.
Computers and chips? Intel is a shell of what it once was. NVIDIA is big, but the fab is mostly elsewhere, and there are competitive companies popping up everywhere. IBM is mostly a service business now. Microsoft and Google are strong. So we are still a player here, but not dominant.
Pharma? Not so much. We still have some players like Lilly, but this is a truly global industry now. We could have a place in biotech, stem cells, vaccines, and other emerging fields, but Trump is whacking the research that enables that kind of leadership, so the future is not bright in this area.
Telecom? No real leadership here. We see the same technologies everywhere. Networking companies like Cisco are no longer dominant.
Entertainment? Yes, we love to entertain ourselves, and still spend lots of money on football, gambling, movies, but none of these things creates any value internationally -- well OK, the movie industry is still a net plus.
We are declining in all of the traditional industries as other countries advance. So where is our big investment? It is in stuff like crypto and AI. Crypto creates no value at all. Insiders get rich off that, but it is a zero some game. There is no underlying product with any intrinsic value. it is financial masturbation.
Infrastructure? The worst. Period. We are now many decades behind most of Europe and Asia. And that makes those other economies fundamentally more efficient than the USA.
Aeronautics? One word: Boeing.
Military weapons? Yes, that has been a big strength. Many countries have wanted our fighter jets. Some of that is still in demand, but the Ukraine war has shown that those old weapons are often far less effective than low-cost drones, In a very real way, the balance of military innovation is shifting to Iran, Turkey, Ukraine and others who have the means to develop these now, more agile systems quickly at a fraction of what the US weapons cost.
AI you say? 80% of the stock market gains (not profits, there are no profits) in the past quarter are directly related to speculation on the AI bubble. Maybe this will turn out to be enormously profitable, but people like Jamie Dimon are warning us that this is vastly over-hyped and after the carnival barkers take their billions from the rest of society, we will be left much poorer as a nation.
Bottom line, we have no national strategy and we are going against countries that have focused and aggressive national strategies. Our strategies are to enable the polluters in old, dying industries because they have the cash flow to pay the biggest bribes in DC.
Farmer-Rick
(12,351 posts)We are a nation of waiters and store clerks. The supposed wonders of a service economy have never come to pass, though "free" traders claimed they would. Service jobs never pay what manufacturing jobs do. US manufacturing disappeared with every "free" trade agreement pushed through by greedy and passive politicians.
Our economy is hollow. It will fail yet again as out of control capitalism always does. We have had the Republican Great Depression...the Reagan deregulation idiocy...the tech bubble bust...the Bushs' S&L crash and great recession. I'm getting ready for the pedo Trump economic collapse.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Javaman
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WarGamer
(18,200 posts)There should be a law that requires a deficit of ZERO annually... and overages can only be approved via a 2/3 majority vote in Congress in case of emergencies or major projects/initiatives.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)
underpants
(194,316 posts)As I remember it, the consensus was that the US needs to carry debt. It has to do with bonds and the dollar mostly.
WarGamer
(18,200 posts)W_HAMILTON
(9,975 posts)WarGamer
(18,200 posts)So no... it's not a good idea.
W_HAMILTON
(9,975 posts)Not to mention making an annual deficit "illegal" is yet another conservative idea of today...
WarGamer
(18,200 posts)Rising at an unstoppable rate and no way to reduce it.
Any sort of monetary policy, aka printing money or austerity campaign aka cutting DoD, SS or MC would be catastrophic.
The only remaining solutions are too clever ideas like long term low interest rates or new taxes...
The neocon concept of "just build the economy larger" to absorb the cost of servicing the debt is insane.
Already we spend more on interest than on the DoD and it gets worse every year.
Johonny
(25,175 posts)and see if that fixes it.
Joinfortmill
(19,760 posts)
Norrrm
(3,730 posts)
Jack Valentino
(4,173 posts)And THEY don't even have to WORK!
Blue Owl
(58,059 posts)
hildegaard28
(792 posts)The debt by an insane amount. He’s spending taxpayer money like a drunken sailor. Just where is he getting all this money for all the illicit schemes he’s pulling? 40 billion to bail out Argentina, millions for new jets for Noem, endless National Guard mobilizations. There’s no way any of this has been approved. The money printer is going to burn out soon.
hatrack
(64,090 posts).
Emile
(39,909 posts)Problem solved!