The United States’s debt spins around 38,000 billion dollars, triggering a deep doubt about the solidity of fiduciary currencies. In a world where economic balances vacillate, this threshold is no longer a simple macroeconomic indicator. It becomes the revealing of a system under tension, and relaunches the debate on the place of alternative assets in the face of the breathlessness of conventional budgetary models.
In short
- The American public debt reaches 37.9 trillions of dollars and increases by 6 billion per day, an unprecedented and alarming pace.
- The representative Keith Self alerts on a possible “sudden collapse” if no measure of budgetary responsibility is taken.
- In this climate of instability, investors turn to assets refuges such as bitcoin and gold to protect themselves against monetary devaluation.
- Bitcoin, long perceived as speculative, is now established as a long -term diversification tool in a tense macroeconomic context.
Out of control budgetary trajectory
The American federal debt reached 37.9 trillion dollars and is expected to cross the 38 trillions in less than three weeks, according to The Economic Committee joint data of the US Congress.
This rate of progression is particularly striking, because the debt increases by 69,890 dollars per second, or 4.2 million per minute, which amounts to $ 6 billion per day, a figure greater than the gross domestic product of more than thirty countries, according to WorldMeter data.
The American representative Keith Self alerted to the severity of the situation by declaring: “The congress must act now, demand the budget responsibility of your leaders before the gradual slide becomes a sudden collapse”.
Behind this dynamic, Several elements illustrate The current incapacity of the American government to slow down the growth of public debt, despite efforts to rationalize budgetary:
- In a few months, the Trump administration had in charge of Elon Musk to supervise an expense reduction program via the Department of Government Efficiency, generating $ 214 billion in savings;
- In July, Donald Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”supposed to save $ 1.6 trillion in federal spending;
- However, the implementation of this law should cost 3.4 trillions over the next ten years, paradoxically contributing to the increase in debt;
- The debt should reach $ 50,000 billion in ten years, if no structural change is made, according to the projections mentioned by Keith Self.
Thus, attempts at budgetary reforms, even ambitious on paper, seem ineffective to stop the spiral of the debt of the United States.
Alternative assets as a response to monetary disorder
While the debt explodes in the United States, investors are increasingly turning to assets perceived as ramparts against monetary depreciation. Last week, JPMorgan described Bitcoin and Gold as a privileged choice in a coverage strategy in the face of the erosion of the value of currencies, that is to say a direct response to the early weakening of the dollar.
This reading of the markets comes in a context where Bitcoin reached a historic summit of 125,506 dollars, while gold has crossed a new record at $ 3,920. If these levels are unusual and to be checked over time, they nevertheless reflect an increasing demand for alternative assets in the face of economic instability.
Major figures in institutional finance reinforce this trend. Last January, Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock and formerly skeptical towards Bitcoin, estimated that the crypto could climb up to $ 700,000, due to fears linked to monetary devaluation.
For his part, Ray Dalio, founder of the Bridgewater Associates fund, recommended in July to devote 15 % of a portfolio to assets such as gold or Bitcoin, in order to optimize the yield/risk ratio. The latter underlines that the Western countries, like the United Kingdom, are not immune to what he calls a “Debt spiral”thus reinforcing the interest in the refuge values.
The inexorable rise in American debt, released by China, gives credit to decentralized assets like Bitcoin. Between loss of monetary confidence and quest for shelters, the markets are testing new benchmarks. It remains to be seen whether these alternatives will be able to impose itself permanently in a financial landscape in full recomposition.
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