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Nov 7, 2026
Jeremy EppleyHOST
So Moody's is another rating agency, somewhat similar to MSCI, but they do slightly different things.
Jeremy EppleyHOST
And so Moody's was considering downgrading French sovereign debt.
Jeremy EppleyHOST
I think their current rating is AA3 or AA minus in finance speak if if any of you like to follow that kind of stuff and um uh for those that are following international news france has had lots of um uh Riots, honestly, different kinds of looting and lots of discontentment among the population for a number of reasons.
Jeremy EppleyHOST
And from a finance perspective, looking at it from investors, foreign investors, a lot of investors are starting to get more and more antsy around France's economic position, especially around its debt issues.
Dan EastmanHOST
You're living in a government economy, and that's a real problem.
Dan EastmanHOST
And we'll be talking about that because that's where that $41 trillion in national debt comes from.
Dan EastmanHOST
I'm having to change.
Dan EastmanHOST
I've been saying $40 trillion in national debt.
Dan EastmanHOST
2.5 trillion in annual deficit well it's going to be 41 fairly soon and then i'm going to have to start talking about 42 trillion in debt and keep in mind remember remember Congress when they when the midterms were coming up and they didn't want to have the government shutting down, even though it never shuts down.
Dan EastmanHOST
Right before the election, so they kicked the can they always kick the can because there's never a budget it's prepared.
Dan EastmanHOST
Keynesians, not so much.
Dan EastmanHOST
You tax until they squeal, you'll borrow the rest on their credit card, you spend and you create this great utopian society.
Steve BruereGUEST
So this whole thing's kind of propped up right now by these payments that we keep getting.
Steve BruereGUEST
And if you believe that we're going to get serious about fixing our national debt at some point, what programs are in jeopardy? And for the first time, I've started getting nervous that farmers have been the sacred cow on these issues.
Steve BruereGUEST
But at some point, we're going to have to fix our national debt.
Dave PriceHOST
Man, hearing you say this, this reminds me of one of the first times I met you.
Dave PriceHOST
I was working on a project and a mutual friend of ours connected us and you were talking about the need for conversations so that people understand this stuff, right? Because you're going to have politicians who are going to talk about the thought of the moment, right? But when you're talking about longer term policy, too often the politicians aren't part of that because it's tough to, when you're trying to really do substantial change that could take years to really lay out, like there's no immediate benefit, right? I almost feel like it's sort of like the way the tariff stuff's worked out.
Lawrence LepardGUEST
up and down and up and down.
Lawrence LepardGUEST
And so when you're in a sovereign debt crisis and one of these monetary systems is breaking, and that's what I think we are in, we're in a sovereign debt crisis and the monetary system is breaking, you're going to see things are going to run really hard in one direction.
Lawrence LepardGUEST
I mean, Look at silver.
Lawrence LepardGUEST
Silver started last year, you know, 25 at 30 bucks and went to 120.
Lawrence LepardGUEST
And they make up the market a lot more than we do.
NathanHOST
Mark, I'm kind of curious on that note, too.
NathanHOST
They're just talking about the signs of sovereign debt crisis, signs of the system breaking, the system melting, perhaps.
NathanHOST
What stress signals are you kind of seeing across? Maybe even the last year, if we're looking back a little bit, what signs of perhaps deterioration have caught your attention?
Lance RobertsHOST
We'll have to wait and see.
Danny RatliffHOST
Okay, no one seems to care about our national debt.
Danny RatliffHOST
Will the election tamper or add to our debt growth? And does it matter? I think the election just told you it doesn't matter.
Danny RatliffHOST
And politics have told you that.
Greg BradyHOST
I'm your host, Greg Brady.
Greg BradyHOST
Canada's national debt, you can kind of interpret it where it's going with a lot of different metrics.
Greg BradyHOST
And the debt is always different than the deficit.
Greg BradyHOST
That's very almost high school economics.
Bill MasonHOST
It's you know, it's a lot, it's hard to find it anymore.
Bill MasonHOST
And, and, Every day we hear – I mean we talk about the national debt, the Red-Green Alliance, and now we've got governments all over the globe telling their people to amass food and water because of some unknown disaster, whether it's war or pandemic or economic collapse.
Bill MasonHOST
So, Manik, it would be nice to hear some optimistic stuff, right? What do you think, Bill?
Bill MasonHOST
Which Bill are we talking to here? You.
Bill MasonHOST
This year, they're projecting to spend 7.2%.
Bill MasonHOST
They're bringing in five point one, five point two.
Bill MasonHOST
The interest on national debt is going to be about one and a half trillion now.
Bill MasonHOST
And there's no there's nothing in sight that I see that anybody wants to cut back on spending.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Thinkers and practical men were united on this point.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
In commercial circles, the question was seriously discussed how the public debt could be paid off, and it was even suggested that the state should disavow its responsibilities in connection with the debt and so wipe it out.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And this in England in the second half of the 18th century.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Nor were the theorists of the time differently minded.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
End quote.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
In these opinions, as always, Adam Smith is the mirror of the economic conditions of his age, a period of early capitalistic development, and nothing diminishes it from our own so well as the fact that in the complete system of Adam Smith, there is no niche available for the study of securities or of the stock exchange and its business.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
About the same time, however, a book appeared which dealt only with credit and its blessings, with the stock exchange and its significance, a book which may be justly termed the Song of Songs of Public Debts and Share Dealing, a book which looked to the future as the wealth of nations looked to the past.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
I refer to the Traite de Crédit et de la Circulation, published in 1771 from the pen of Joseph de Pinto.
Danny MosesHOST
And there's a lot of geopolitical stuff going on more than I can remember.
Danny MosesHOST
And one thing we didn't talk about yet, which I think, you know, from a sovereign debt perspective, again, when everyone's on one side of a trade from a contrarian perspective, you could have written, you know, front page of The Economist, the bond yields are going up.
Danny MosesHOST
Everyone's, you know, short 10-year across the board, across the world.
Danny MosesHOST
Of course, you're going to get a little bit of a rally.
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Danny MosesHOST
I get it.
Danny MosesHOST
It would be hard to trade that if you said, oh, it's going to end.
Danny MosesHOST
But I do believe that with the global sovereign debt, with the deficit issues that we have here, we're going to turn the calendar.
Danny MosesHOST
We're going to trip the debt ceiling, by the way, in the first six weeks of 2027.
Ebony McMorrisHOST
I'm Ebony McMorris.
Ebony McMorrisHOST
Sixty one percent of voters planning to cast ballots Tuesday say the national debt will weigh heavily in their choice for federal office.
Ebony McMorrisHOST
That's according to a new poll commissioned by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation with similar findings across party lines.
Ebony McMorrisHOST
Voters are connecting Washington's budget to their own budgets.
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