{"id":693291,"date":"2026-03-23T11:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=693291"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:59:34","slug":"big-picture-thinking-64-trillion-in-us-debt-in-10-years-i-like-hard-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=693291","title":{"rendered":"Big Picture thinking..64 trillion in US debt in 10 years&#8230;.I like hard assets."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em><strong>The Debt Spiral is Here:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>U.S. federal debt has crossed $39 trillion and is projected to hit $64 trillion by 2036, only 10 years from now. The pace of accumulation is accelerating, forcing a monetary endgame collission.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Fed\u2019s Impossible Choice:<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The government needs lower rates to manage its debt service costs, but this will reignite inflation. If they don\u2019t monetize the debt, rising rates will trigger a deflationary spiral. There is no third option.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Gold\u2019s Dip is Temporary, The Rise is Structural:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>The recent sell-off is a mechanical liquidity event. The underlying reason to own gold, as a hedge against the inevitable monetization of sovereign debt, has only grown stronger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From Money and Metals on Substack&#8230;subscription service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Debt Spiral is Here:\u00a0U.S. federal debt has crossed $39 trillion and is projected to hit $64 trillion by 2036, only 10 years from now. The pace of accumulation is accelerating, forcing a monetary endgame collission. The Fed\u2019s Impossible Choice:\u00a0The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=693291\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3010,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693293,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693291\/revisions\/693293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}