Keep pulling the thread on Rand Paul.
The Social Security system will become insolvent unless the full retirement age is raised to 70.
The U.S. federal government has approximately $7 trillion in annual spending and $5 trillion in annual revenue, resulting in a $2 trillion annual deficit.
Rand Paul was one of only three Republican senators to vote against a recent major bill because it increased the national debt ceiling by $5 trillion.
The U.S. federal deficit for the current fiscal year is projected to be approximately $1.9 trillion, an increase of about $160 billion from the previous year.
The Federal Reserve paid $188 billion in interest to commercial banks, with most of the funds going to the five largest banks in New York, as an incentive for them to hold reserves.
U.S. protectionist policies risk uniting countries like Russia and China to create an alternative to the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency.
A commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet privately communicated to Senator Rand Paul that a war between the United States and China is not inevitable.
According to Ray Dalio, the U.S. must reduce its annual federal deficit from 6% of GDP to 3% of GDP to avoid a debt crisis.
The average interest rate paid on the U.S. national debt has increased from approximately 1.5% over the last decade to 3.5% currently.
The $36 trillion U.S. national debt is held approximately one-third by the Federal Reserve, one-third by foreign governments, and one-third by the private marketplace.
During a diplomatic visit to China, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanded that China stop selling dual-use components to Russia for its war effort in Ukraine.
Rand Paul believes the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence is currently being overstated.