More Black Swans Arrive As U.S. Debt Balloons $800 Billion In Two Months

More Black Swans Arrive As U.S. Debt Balloons $800 Billion In Two Months

POSTED BY SRSROCCO

The rate at which black swans are showing up in the world should scare the hell out of people.  But, unfortunately, everyone seems to be lost in the highly complex technology of I-phones, computers, social media, and the telly to notice that something is definitely wrong.  The current situation reminds me of a famous scene in the Monty Python movie, The Holy Grail, where a guy is banging a bell and saying, “Bring out your dead.”  Let me explain.

The scene in the movie takes place in England or Europe during the Black Plague, and due to the staggering amount of deaths, carts were used to pick up the bodies throughout the city.  Yes, this is indeed a macabre subject matter, but Monty Python takes a serious situation and turns it into a comedy.  However, the point I am trying to make is this… death is a very tragic and emotional part of life that impacts family members, friends, and coworkers.  But, in this Monty Python scene, there is so much death, that it almost becomes numb to everyone.

And, that is precisely what I see now in the public. There are so many warning signs, or black swans, that no one seems to notice.  Everyone has become… QUITE NUMB to it all.  So, when the U.S. Government adds $814 billion of new debt in a little more than two months, the public yawns as this is no big deal:

Since the beginning of August, the total U.S. federal debt has increased from $22,023 billion to $22,837 billion.  Thus, the U.S. public debt has increased by nearly 4% in just two months!  Here is the debt table from TreasuryDirect.gov website since August 1st:

For the first half of the year, the U.S. debt balance remained right around the $22 trillion level.  However, after the Whitehouse and Congress struck a deal on July 22nd, the debt ceiling was raised, and as we can see in the table above, the U.S. debt jumped $291 billion in one day (August 2nd).  The U.S. government was making up for borrowed funds since the beginning of the year.

If we look at the next chart that shows an increase in U.S. debt over the past two weeks, it jumped another $227 billion:……more here

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