“We’re In The 3rd Inning Of The Global Currency Death Spiral” – Rubino Sees Gold Topping $10,000

Analyst and financial writer John Rubino has a new warning concerning Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” making its way through Congress and Moody’s downgrade of US debt.  The Big Beautiful Bill is going to explode the debt by $20 trillion in the next 10 years, and the credit downgrade has people like billionaire investment fund founder Ray Dalio worries about money printing to pay the $1.5 trillion in interest on federal debt.

Rubino warns, “The story with Moody’s downgrade isn’t that they did it, that they moved the US from triple A (Aaa) to one notch below (Aa1).  It’s kind of insane that a government with 125% of GDP has an investment rating at all.  Right?”

” They are clearly baking a gigantic currency crisis into the cake.  Ray Dalio gets it right.  

The rating agencies excuse or explanation for why the US still has an investment grade credit rating is that a country with a printing press can never default because it can just print enough money out of thin air to pay interest on its bonds, and it can do that forever.  

So, it’s triple A credit, which does not make any sense at all because if you just print a lot of money out of thin air to pay your debts, then your currency goes down in value, and you are paying back your creditors with depreciating currency, which is a form of default.  

The credit rating agencies are only looking at one kind of default where we just stop paying.  

They are not looking at paying with cheaper currency year after year, and we

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