Our Best Stuff on Crossing the $40 Trillion Debt Threshold

Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. You’re reading The Weekly, a Saturday morning recap of the best Dispatch content of the week, with some additional commentary from Managing Editor Rachael Larimore. Hello and happy Saturday. The U.S. has crossed a troubling threshold—our national debt now stands at $40 trillion. That’s enough money to buy about 70 percent of all homes in the United States. If that sounds like too much dusting and vacuuming, one could instead buy the 10 biggest companies in the U.S.—Nvidia, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, chipmaker Broadcom, Meta, SpaceX, Tesla, and Eli Lilly—and have almost $12 trillion left over. To look at it another way, that $40 trillion