$40 Trillion Warning For US
- Krishnan Ranganathan
- Updated: Aug 23, 2026, 21:16 IST IST
Last week America’s gross national debt ticked past $40,000,000,000,000. That’s a dollar a second that you’d need over a million years to clear – which nobody intends to do, and nobody has to. That isn’t the problem. It took just five months to add the last trillion, and the interest is now real money.