re: Interest on the debt is 60% of the Amount taken in by the Treasury in February

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How exactly do we have debt when we print our own currency?

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Because even the act of printing fiat currency must be secured by credit.

Best visualized by Exeter’s Pyramid:


Gold sits at the bottom, ultimately “backing” all forms of credit resting on top of it …. and providing trust to the financial system.