Government debt rolls over every month..We are refinancing notes that were .5% for more like 5%..
Sure, but apparently there is a large amount of debt maturing in Q1 and 2 this year (70% of a total of $9.2t for the year which is eye watering.)
It makes sense why Trump and Doge are going so hard straight out of the gate in those circumstances as even a small reduction in the refinanced rates could be sizeable in the reduction of your debt burden.
Maddog said
Mar 18 10:43 PM, 2025
Could have been a lot of 5 year notes originated in 2020. 🤷
Everyone wants lower inflation and the corresponding lower interest rates.
Barksdale said
Mar 18 10:47 PM, 2025
Maddog wrote:
Everyone wants lower inflation and the corresponding lower interest rates.
No doubt.
Hopefully Trump is all mouth when it comes to tariffs and it is a bargaining chip which he will ultimately abandon.
Vam said
Mar 20 1:54 PM, 2025
Vam wrote:
He’s already defying judicial rulings/orders.
He can’t be arsed with the lower courts anyway. When push comes to shove, he wants to run any legal challenge to his Executive Orders, and/or DOGE mandate, all the way up to the heavily stacked Supreme Court for a ruling from his ‘people’ there.
^^ Me, several days ago in this thread.
I’m not too bad at figuring out his game plan Pretty much everything I predict eventually happens.
Today’s flashing chyron on CNN……
Trump DOJ confident Supreme Court will side with Administration
-- Edited by Vam on Thursday 20th of March 2025 01:55:34 PM
Syl said
Mar 20 5:43 PM, 2025
Vam wrote:
Vam wrote:
He’s already defying judicial rulings/orders.
He can’t be arsed with the lower courts anyway. When push comes to shove, he wants to run any legal challenge to his Executive Orders, and/or DOGE mandate, all the way up to the heavily stacked Supreme Court for a ruling from his ‘people’ there.
^^ Me, several days ago in this thread.
I’m not too bad at figuring out his game plan Pretty much everything I predict eventually happens.
Today’s flashing chyron on CNN……
Trump DOJ confident Supreme Court will side with Administration
-- Edited by Vam on Thursday 20th of March 2025 01:55:34 PM
It's quite worrying that your mind can figure out his mind.
Vam said
Mar 20 11:27 PM, 2025
Syl wrote:
Vam wrote:
Vam wrote:
He’s already defying judicial rulings/orders.
He can’t be arsed with the lower courts anyway. When push comes to shove, he wants to run any legal challenge to his Executive Orders, and/or DOGE mandate, all the way up to the heavily stacked Supreme Court for a ruling from his ‘people’ there.
^^ Me, several days ago in this thread.
I’m not too bad at figuring out his game plan Pretty much everything I predict eventually happens.
Today’s flashing chyron on CNN……
Trump DOJ confident Supreme Court will side with Administration
-- Edited by Vam on Thursday 20th of March 2025 01:55:34 PM
It's quite worrying that your mind can figure out his mind.
All kidding aside, I’ve been watching this charlatan since the day he came down that naff golden escalator to announce his run for the presidency. 10 years later, I am still amazed that out of a population of more 330million people, this addled psychotic imbecile is the best Americans can come up with to lead their nation.
Anonymous said
Mar 21 12:00 PM, 2025
I know Maddog likes to think that his is the country of free speech, but look at what happened to Rasool for criticising Trump.
Maddog said
Mar 21 3:48 PM, 2025
Anonymous wrote:
I know Maddog likes to think that his is the country of free speech, but look at what happened to Rasool for criticising Trump.
Who is Rasool?
Maddog said
Mar 23 3:42 PM, 2025
"Bill Maher is revealing his new plans to visit Donald Trump at the White House, with Kid Rock as the go-between. And he knows the move is going to further infuriate his liberal critics.
In an upcoming episode of Maher’s Club Random out Sunday, Maher opines, “There will be lots of people on the left who will be like, how dare you talk to this man?” The late-night host made the reveal to his guest, fellow comedian and podcaster Andrew Schulz, who hosted Trump on his show just weeks before the election."
Has DUI hire, Pete Hegseth, resigned yet? Imagine disclosing highly sensitive US war plans and thinking you could keep your job. The man should stick to being an alcoholic and not endangering people's lives.
I see JD Vance hates the idea of having to "bail out" Europe again. Have we even said thank you? I guess relationship with the US and Europe (and I include the UK in this) is done. It will take a long time for Europe to trust America again even if there is a change of US Administration.
Maddog said
Mar 24 9:21 PM, 2025
Barksdale wrote:
Has DUI hire, Pete Hegseth, resigned yet? Imagine disclosing highly sensitive US war plans and thinking you could keep your job. The man should stick to being an alcoholic and not endangering people's lives.
I see JD Vance hates the idea of having to "bail out" Europe again. Have we even said thank you? I guess relationship with the US and Europe (and I include the UK in this) is done. It will take a long time for Europe to trust America again even if there is a change of US Administration.
Have most European countries fulfilled their NATO obligations in terms of military preparedness?
Vam said
Mar 24 11:05 PM, 2025
Despite all their testosterone-fuelled swagger and performative bluster, Hegseth, Patel and Duffy are inexperienced, wholly unqualified and way too immature to run the government departments they’ve been assigned to oversee.
It’s only a matter of when, not if, they‘ll continue to prove how completely out of their depth they really are.
Question is, how much more damage will they do before the plug is pulled on them.
Maddog said
Mar 25 12:24 AM, 2025
According to The Atlantic, it was Michael Waltz that added the reporter to the group chat..
Not that that makes it better, because they should have a more secure means of communication.
But this is hardly the first time folks have used personal devices and emails for sensitive government businesses..
Anonymous said
Mar 25 5:24 PM, 2025
Is Trump really a psychopath as some people have claimed?
From what you know of him, answer these test questions as if you were him, and see what it comes up with.
Has DUI hire, Pete Hegseth, resigned yet? Imagine disclosing highly sensitive US war plans and thinking you could keep your job. The man should stick to being an alcoholic and not endangering people's lives.
I see JD Vance hates the idea of having to "bail out" Europe again. Have we even said thank you? I guess relationship with the US and Europe (and I include the UK in this) is done. It will take a long time for Europe to trust America again even if there is a change of US Administration.
Have most European countries fulfilled their NATO obligations in terms of military preparedness?
It depends what you mean about "obligations." Spending isn't mandatory and rather guidelines which countries aim to meet. Not sure about the equipment / modernisation part but as of 2024 about two thirds of NATO members meet their commitments when it comes to spending so yes, most do. No disagreement that the US is the biggest and most consistent payer but that isn't surprising given your strategic and geopolitical positions are the most extensive. You are hardly doing it out of the goodness of your hearts are you?
I think we should thank the Trump Administration in a way. It is clear the US thinks they are getting a bad deal and looks down on Europe. It is also clear that the US cannot be trusted as an ally (and maybe haven't been for a long time going back to Obama) and are now actively hostile to us. The latest national security debacle shows that America could be an active liability to European interests.
Let America come out of NATO, withdraw your military bases, stand alone and leave it to us to step up. It's probably long over due. Maybe then we wouldn't blindly follow you into numerous proxy wars, especially in the Middle East and the world can reform itself.
Barksdale said
Mar 25 6:46 PM, 2025
Maddog wrote:
According to The Atlantic, it was Michael Waltz that added the reporter to the group chat..
Not that that makes it better, because they should have a more secure means of communication.
But this is hardly the first time folks have used personal devices and emails for sensitive government businesses..
Come on now. War plans and timings were disclosed. This is not "it's just one of those things."
Maddog said
Mar 25 7:02 PM, 2025
Barksdale wrote:
Maddog wrote:
Barksdale wrote:
Has DUI hire, Pete Hegseth, resigned yet? Imagine disclosing highly sensitive US war plans and thinking you could keep your job. The man should stick to being an alcoholic and not endangering people's lives.
I see JD Vance hates the idea of having to "bail out" Europe again. Have we even said thank you? I guess relationship with the US and Europe (and I include the UK in this) is done. It will take a long time for Europe to trust America again even if there is a change of US Administration.
Have most European countries fulfilled their NATO obligations in terms of military preparedness?
It depends what you mean about "obligations." Spending isn't mandatory and rather guidelines which countries aim to meet. Not sure about the equipment / modernisation part but as of 2024 about two thirds of NATO members meet their commitments when it comes to spending so yes, most do. No disagreement that the US is the biggest and most consistent payer but that isn't surprising given your strategic and geopolitical positions are the most extensive. You are hardly doing it out of the goodness of your hearts are you?
I think we should thank the Trump Administration in a way. It is clear the US thinks they are getting a bad deal and looks down on Europe. It is also clear that the US cannot be trusted as an ally (and maybe haven't been for a long time going back to Obama) and are now actively hostile to us. The latest national security debacle shows that America could be an active liability to European interests.
Let America come out of NATO, withdraw your military bases, stand alone and leave it to us to step up. It's probably long over due. Maybe then we wouldn't blindly follow you into numerous proxy wars, especially in the Middle East and the world can reform itself.
For decades the answer was no.
Our involvement in NATO was unnecessary with the demise of the Soviet Union.
We won the cold war with them and left Europe in an excellent position to take care of itself.
Anonymous said
Mar 26 1:42 PM, 2025
Barksdale wrote:
Maddog wrote:
According to The Atlantic, it was Michael Waltz that added the reporter to the group chat..
Not that that makes it better, because they should have a more secure means of communication.
But this is hardly the first time folks have used personal devices and emails for sensitive government businesses..
Come on now. War plans and timings were disclosed. This is not "it's just one of those things."
I think he's trying to downplay it for some reason, much as the Trump administration's party line.
But the cat's out of the bag with the Atlantic's release of the full transcript today.
Even so, Trump's press secretary is still trying hard, describing it as : "...another hoax written by a Trump-hater.."
Maddog said
Mar 26 4:30 PM, 2025
Anonymous wrote:
Barksdale wrote:
Maddog wrote:
According to The Atlantic, it was Michael Waltz that added the reporter to the group chat..
Not that that makes it better, because they should have a more secure means of communication.
But this is hardly the first time folks have used personal devices and emails for sensitive government businesses..
Come on now. War plans and timings were disclosed. This is not "it's just one of those things."
I think he's trying to downplay it for some reason, much as the Trump administration's party line.
But the cat's out of the bag with the Atlantic's release of the full transcript today.
Even so, Trump's press secretary is still trying hard, describing it as : "...another hoax written by a Trump-hater.."
I think a few heads should roll, but I also know that we have seen all sorts of government business conducted on private devices and through private communications..
"From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent."
^The FBI commenting about Hillarys private email practices.
Unfortunately, the current crop in DC weren't very serious when they called her actions "problematic". They appear to be copying them..
Anonymous said
Mar 26 9:47 PM, 2025
He's at it again. Tariffs of 25% on automobiles. His goal is for most cars to be made in America I guess and he claimed many jobs will be brought to the States to construct these cars. I don't pretend to know about the automobile industry but I do know prices will shoot up and american taxpayers will bare the brunt of the tariffs. again. Apparently more to follow..in the pharma industry. He got in his usual tiresome digs at the freeload ing EU of course.
Sure, but apparently there is a large amount of debt maturing in Q1 and 2 this year (70% of a total of $9.2t for the year which is eye watering.)
It makes sense why Trump and Doge are going so hard straight out of the gate in those circumstances as even a small reduction in the refinanced rates could be sizeable in the reduction of your debt burden.
Everyone wants lower inflation and the corresponding lower interest rates.
No doubt.
Hopefully Trump is all mouth when it comes to tariffs and it is a bargaining chip which he will ultimately abandon.
He’s already defying judicial rulings/orders.
^^ Me, several days ago in this thread.
I’m not too bad at figuring out his game plan
Pretty much everything I predict eventually happens.
Today’s flashing chyron on CNN……
Trump DOJ confident Supreme Court will side with Administration
-- Edited by Vam on Thursday 20th of March 2025 01:55:34 PM
It's quite worrying that your mind can figure out his mind.
All kidding aside, I’ve been watching this charlatan since the day he came down that naff golden escalator to announce his run for the presidency. 10 years later, I am still amazed that out of a population of more 330million people, this addled psychotic imbecile is the best Americans can come up with to lead their nation.
I know Maddog likes to think that his is the country of free speech, but look at what happened to Rasool for criticising Trump.
Who is Rasool?
In an upcoming episode of Maher’s Club Random out Sunday, Maher opines, “There will be lots of people on the left who will be like, how dare you talk to this man?” The late-night host made the reveal to his guest, fellow comedian and podcaster Andrew Schulz, who hosted Trump on his show just weeks before the election."
www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-reveals-plans-to-meet-with-trump-at-white-house/
This should be good..
Has DUI hire, Pete Hegseth, resigned yet? Imagine disclosing highly sensitive US war plans and thinking you could keep your job. The man should stick to being an alcoholic and not endangering people's lives.
I see JD Vance hates the idea of having to "bail out" Europe again. Have we even said thank you? I guess relationship with the US and Europe (and I include the UK in this) is done. It will take a long time for Europe to trust America again even if there is a change of US Administration.
Have most European countries fulfilled their NATO obligations in terms of military preparedness?
Despite all their testosterone-fuelled swagger and performative bluster, Hegseth, Patel and Duffy are inexperienced, wholly unqualified and way too immature to run the government departments they’ve been assigned to oversee.
It’s only a matter of when, not if, they‘ll continue to prove how completely out of their depth they really are.
Question is, how much more damage will they do before the plug is pulled on them.
Not that that makes it better, because they should have a more secure means of communication.
But this is hardly the first time folks have used personal devices and emails for sensitive government businesses..
Is Trump really a psychopath as some people have claimed?
From what you know of him, answer these test questions as if you were him, and see what it comes up with.
https://www.idrlabs.com/psychopathy-spectrum/test.php
It depends what you mean about "obligations." Spending isn't mandatory and rather guidelines which countries aim to meet. Not sure about the equipment / modernisation part but as of 2024 about two thirds of NATO members meet their commitments when it comes to spending so yes, most do. No disagreement that the US is the biggest and most consistent payer but that isn't surprising given your strategic and geopolitical positions are the most extensive. You are hardly doing it out of the goodness of your hearts are you?
I think we should thank the Trump Administration in a way. It is clear the US thinks they are getting a bad deal and looks down on Europe. It is also clear that the US cannot be trusted as an ally (and maybe haven't been for a long time going back to Obama) and are now actively hostile to us. The latest national security debacle shows that America could be an active liability to European interests.
Let America come out of NATO, withdraw your military bases, stand alone and leave it to us to step up. It's probably long over due. Maybe then we wouldn't blindly follow you into numerous proxy wars, especially in the Middle East and the world can reform itself.
Come on now. War plans and timings were disclosed. This is not "it's just one of those things."
For decades the answer was no.
Our involvement in NATO was unnecessary with the demise of the Soviet Union.
We won the cold war with them and left Europe in an excellent position to take care of itself.
I think he's trying to downplay it for some reason, much as the Trump administration's party line.
But the cat's out of the bag with the Atlantic's release of the full transcript today.
Even so, Trump's press secretary is still trying hard, describing it as : "...another hoax written by a Trump-hater.."
I think a few heads should roll, but I also know that we have seen all sorts of government business conducted on private devices and through private communications..
"From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent."
^The FBI commenting about Hillarys private email practices.
Unfortunately, the current crop in DC weren't very serious when they called her actions "problematic". They appear to be copying them..