Anthropic plans to spend $518 billion, more than 100 times its 2025 revenue, according to the IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. Investors in the listing are underwriting a payoff that JP Morgan says has yet to show up as broad productivity gains in the US.
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US net interest payments rose $111 billion this year to roughly $1.08 trillion, on figures a former Senate budget staffer published in Fortune. With debt adding $1 trillion every five months, the bill compounds whether the 5.04% yield reflects oil and inflation or fiscal risk.
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Scope Ratings held the US at AA- and said interest costs will carry debt toward 160% of GDP by 2036 while the primary deficit stays near 3.5%. That makes the forecast depend on Treasury yields and on how the post-midterm Congress handles the debt limit.
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Bond investors are demanding about 3.3 points of real return in the 30-year Treasury's 5.62% close, against a long-run inflation forecast near 2.3%. Their exposure is the real cost of funding the government, and inflation hedges do little to cover it.
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Nine states and D.C. expect over 281,000 lawfully present immigrants, refugees and asylees among them, to lose Medicaid in October. CBO's estimate of 100,000 more uninsured by 2034 is a net figure for years out, so the gap depends on how many find other insurance.
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Six Republican-led states will require provider proof of medical frailty when Medicaid work rules start in January, a year ahead of the federal schedule. The first cost lands on new applicants who cannot afford the doctor visit that proof requires.
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Trump promised $5,000 to each American adult if his party keeps its congressional majorities, and Fortune reports that such a proposal could cost more than $1 trillion. No financing was attached to it.
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Trump promised American adults $5,000 each if Republicans hold Congress, a payout put near $1.3 trillion, and the two Republican leaders who would have to legislate it have both declined to promise it.
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The Congressional Budget Office counts about $38bn of additional Pentagon spending in five months, $21.7bn of it replacing spent munitions, and says returning inventories to their previous levels takes at least five years.
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The federal government is on track to spend about $970 billion servicing its debt in fiscal 2025. The whole gap between that burden and corporate America's is attributed to when each side refinanced.
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The CBO baseline that federal interest projections rest on now sits 90 basis points below the market, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget priced $2.7 trillion of annual interest off a smaller gap than that.
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Troy Meink said the US has fielded on-orbit space control weapons, the first American acknowledgement of the kind, though he gave no detail on the weapons or their targets, leaving the consequence in the UN argument over a ban.
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Mercer's survey of 1,800 employers puts health costs per worker up 8.2% in 2027, the steepest rise since 2003, and the $3.48 an hour employers already spend on health insurance comes out of the same budget as pay.
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The new tier system sorts diagnoses by how likely they are to prevent work, so an ALS case clears automatically while a diabetes case with no recent admissions goes to individual review. States have about 16 weeks.
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A projection of $3.4 trillion over ten years averages about $340bn a year. The Congressional Budget Office's more than $1 trillion of offsetting program savings rests partly on Medicaid work requirements most states do not start until 2027.
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Kent Smetters of the Penn Wharton Budget Model puts the checks at about $1.35 trillion, or $1.15 trillion if a $400,000 income cap he supplied himself applies, against a federal deficit already running near $2 trillion a year.
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James Galbraith says long yields are the current short rate plus the expected path of short rates and very little else, so the bond rout is a hike forecast, and because one-and-done is rare the smallest sequence worth pricing is 50 basis points.
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Debt held by the public went from 32% of GDP to 100% in a quarter century, and the budget hawks' own decomposition says removing any one of tax cuts, new spending or crisis response would have left it near where it started.
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Gross federal debt of $40.05 trillion against a $1.8 trillion deficit means the stock grows 4.5% a year before any interest compounds, and with unemployment at 4.1% there is no cycle left to explain away the arithmetic.
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The effective rate on federal debt over the past year works out to 3.05%. The average rate actually carried in July was 3.45%, and closing that gap costs about $160 billion a year with no help from the Fed.
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