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TLT directional thesis

The US is 1000% going bankrupt without an AI and robotics growth miracle, because interest on the national debt already costs more than the entire trillion-dollar military budget.

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“the interest payments to the national debt exceed the military budget, which is a trillion dollars. So over a trillion dollars just in interest payments.”
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