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1:10:32Now PlayingIs a U.S. financial crisis already baked in? Top economist Justin Wolfers joins Cliff Schecter to break down the prediction rattling Wall Street—and what it means for your money.
America's annual interest bill has quadrupled to $1 trillion. Highly leveraged hedge funds—not stable central banks—are now propping up the Treasury market. Deficits are projected at 7.4 percent of GDP for years to come, and a new Telegraph analysis warns the "ingredients are coming together" for a full-blown U.S. financial crisis. So is it math, or is it hype? Wolfers separates the real warning signs from the noise—and tells us what happens next.
On this episode of AMPED UP:
The $1 trillion-a-year interest bill nobody in Washington wants to talk about
Who's actually buying America's debt now—and why that should worry you
A Federal Reserve under political pressure while inflation rises
What a real U.S. fiscal crisis would look like for regular people
What, if anything, can still stop it
Justin Wolfers is a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan and one of the sharpest, funniest economic communicators in the country.
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