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Summarised Post: The UK and USA are drowning in public debt, propped up for years by low interest rates. Now that rates are rising, the debt burden is exposed as unsustainable. Despite this, political leaders avoid the tough choices — higher taxes, lower spending — and keep kicking the can down the road. Crisis risk is low… until it’s not.

THE SLOW-MOTION SUICIDE OF WESTERN FISCAL POLICY

How many decades do we need of this “ignore it until it explodes” routine before we admit it: our leaders are fiscally deranged cowards, willingly sleepwalking into economic ruin while handing out cookies and tax breaks like it’s a child’s birthday party? We’re no longer talking about a few red numbers in a spreadsheet — we’re talking about governments so allergic to basic arithmetic that they need emotional support calculators. The debt isn’t just high — it’s astronomical, structural, and metastasizing. And still, politicians act like adult conversations about sacrifice would melt their faces off.

This is not some mysterious economic force — this is engineered decay. A willful abandonment of responsibility from both sides of the aisle, dressed up in patriotic nonsense and empty budget proposals. “It’s fine because we borrow in our own currency” is the financial equivalent of smoking three packs a day and saying, “It’s okay, I’ve got good genes.” At some point, markets will stop laughing. The question is, will anyone still be sober enough to fix it — or will we just slap another trillion on the tab and toast to our collective amnesia?

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