Negative real rates drove a 2,300% move last time.
Factories are buying less, and it still got worse.
The path overshoots the limit by 41 points of GDP.
They started building systems the West can't switch off.
Voluntary reporting meets sovereign silence.
The government wrote every one of them to itself.
The dot plot just broke every deficit projection for the next decade.
Every stage of production is running hotter than the one below it.
They dumped the one asset America needs someone to buy.
Record budgets are drilling sideways, not forward.
Almost half the deficit just covers old borrowing.
Paper holders were forced out, but the metal stayed put.