$40 TRILLION IN NATIONAL DEBT, AND THE INTEREST BILL IS COMPOUNDING

🔴 $40 trillion. That is the size of the U.S. national debt, and the cost of carrying it is the part getting louder.

MarketWatch — top stories reports on the math linking interest expenses, bond yields and that $40 trillion pile.

The line that stands out comes from Joe Boyle at Hartford Funds: "The interest payments are starting to snowball."

Here is why that phrasing matters. Debt does not cost the same forever. As older borrowing rolls over, it gets refinanced at whatever yields the market is demanding at that moment. A bigger pile plus higher yields does not add — it multiplies.

That makes interest expense one of the few budget lines nobody in Washington directly controls. Bond investors set it.

We are holding this one to what the reporting says. MarketWatch — top stories is the source, the debt figure is $40 trillion, and the snowball line is Boyle's.

Do you think Treasury yields go higher from here, or lower?

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