{"id":12623,"date":"2024-01-11T15:54:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12623"},"modified":"2024-01-11T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:54:07","slug":"the-us-debt-mountain-is-growing-so-fast-the-government-could-soon-be-spending-more-on-interest-payments-than-on-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12623","title":{"rendered":"The US debt mountain is growing so fast the government could soon be spending more on interest payments than on defense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The US&#8217;s mountain of debt has become a cause of concern for investors this year.<\/li><li>The government is likely to spend more on interest payments than on defense over the next five years, per Capital Group.<\/li><li>The ballooning debt burden could eventually chip away at the demand for Treasury bonds, according to the investment manager.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/us-debt-mountain-growing-fast-193006391.html\">https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/us-debt-mountain-growing-fast-193006391.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221;<br \/>\nThe US&#8217;s mountain of debt has become a cause of concern for investors this year.<\/p>\n<p>The government is likely to spend more on interest payments than on defense over the next five years, per Capital Group.<\/p>\n<p>The ballooning debt burden could eventually chip away at the demand for Treasury bonds, according to the investment manager.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/us-debt-mountain-growing-fast-193006391.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7,278,1193],"class_list":["post-12623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-debt","tag-deficit","tag-government-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12624,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623\/revisions\/12624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}