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1 month ago

Jamie Dimon says Trump's efficiency drive isn't enough to avert debt crisis: 'Like most problems, it's better to deal with it than let it happen' | Fortune

Like many other economists and experts, Dimon warns that at some stage the government will race a reckoning: They will try to sell debt and find either the market no longer wants to buy it, or the risk has increased to a point where they demand even higher interest payments. The metric that speculators are most concerned by is the debt-to-GDP ratio, in layman's terms: If an economy is growing fast enough to repay and service its debts.
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