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Korea's Ministry of Finance and Economy lists 69.1 trillion won of 10-year treasury bonds, sold at about 1.6%, that mature in 2029 and 2030. Officials call the immediate cost manageable, but next year's 96.3 trillion won of net new issuance adds debt that costs more than the old paper did.
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Economists polled by the Wall Street Journal expect the 10-year Treasury yield to ease only to 5.1% by year-end and 4.8% a year later, Semafor reported. Growth and inflation forecasts barely moved, so the case for high yields rests on the supply of capital.
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CBO Director Phillip Swagel put the real growth needed to stop U.S. debt rising against GDP at 5%-6%, more than double the current pace. He told a Minneapolis Fed conference that what remains is tax and spending changes, which he called inherently political choices.
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Medicaid stopped covering an estimated hundreds of thousands of lawfully present immigrants on Oct. 1, refugees and trafficking victims among them. It is a small early part of the 7.5 million coverage losses the CBO projects from Trump's 2025 law, and advocates expect the unpaid bills to reach emergency rooms.
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Engineers at Florida A&M and Florida State cut peak wind pressure at model buildings' corners by up to 60% in a wind tunnel by making walls and roofs wavy. That makes building shape a candidate wind measure for hurricane coasts, on evidence from 3D-printed scale models.
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Congressional Budget Office figures put the U.S. deficit for fiscal 2026 at $1.993 trillion, about 12% above the prior year and the largest since 2021. Market watchers expect the gap to top 6% of GDP, up from 5.8%, even after more than six years of economic expansion.
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Anthropic plans to spend $518 billion, more than 100 times its 2025 revenue, according to the IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. Investors in the listing are underwriting a payoff that JP Morgan says has yet to show up as broad productivity gains in the US.
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US net interest payments rose $111 billion this year to roughly $1.08 trillion, on figures a former Senate budget staffer published in Fortune. With debt adding $1 trillion every five months, the bill compounds whether the 5.04% yield reflects oil and inflation or fiscal risk.
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Scope Ratings held the US at AA- and said interest costs will carry debt toward 160% of GDP by 2036 while the primary deficit stays near 3.5%. That makes the forecast depend on Treasury yields and on how the post-midterm Congress handles the debt limit.
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Bond investors are demanding about 3.3 points of real return in the 30-year Treasury's 5.62% close, against a long-run inflation forecast near 2.3%. Their exposure is the real cost of funding the government, and inflation hedges do little to cover it.
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Nine states and D.C. expect over 281,000 lawfully present immigrants, refugees and asylees among them, to lose Medicaid in October. CBO's estimate of 100,000 more uninsured by 2034 is a net figure for years out, so the gap depends on how many find other insurance.
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Six Republican-led states will require provider proof of medical frailty when Medicaid work rules start in January, a year ahead of the federal schedule. The first cost lands on new applicants who cannot afford the doctor visit that proof requires.
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Trump promised $5,000 to each American adult if his party keeps its congressional majorities, and Fortune reports that such a proposal could cost more than $1 trillion. No financing was attached to it.
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Trump promised American adults $5,000 each if Republicans hold Congress, a payout put near $1.3 trillion, and the two Republican leaders who would have to legislate it have both declined to promise it.
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The Congressional Budget Office counts about $38bn of additional Pentagon spending in five months, $21.7bn of it replacing spent munitions, and says returning inventories to their previous levels takes at least five years.
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The federal government is on track to spend about $970 billion servicing its debt in fiscal 2025. The whole gap between that burden and corporate America's is attributed to when each side refinanced.
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The CBO baseline that federal interest projections rest on now sits 90 basis points below the market, and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget priced $2.7 trillion of annual interest off a smaller gap than that.
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Troy Meink said the US has fielded on-orbit space control weapons, the first American acknowledgement of the kind, though he gave no detail on the weapons or their targets, leaving the consequence in the UN argument over a ban.
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Mercer's survey of 1,800 employers puts health costs per worker up 8.2% in 2027, the steepest rise since 2003, and the $3.48 an hour employers already spend on health insurance comes out of the same budget as pay.
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The new tier system sorts diagnoses by how likely they are to prevent work, so an ALS case clears automatically while a diabetes case with no recent admissions goes to individual review. States have about 16 weeks.
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