The $40 Trillion Trap: Disinflation Is Not Deliverance

Pento Portfolio Strategies LLC · Jul 17, 2026

July 15, 2026 Let us begin not with a headline, but with an arithmetic problem so simple and so damning that it is astonishing it does not dominate every financial broadcast in this country. The United States government now carries $40 trillion in national debt. Not $40 trillion in some distant theoretical future. $40 trillion […]