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May 21 2025

$10 Trillion in Capital Flows to US?


Posted originally on May 21, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

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President Donald Trump completed a successful tour of the Middle East that resulted in foreign investments surmounting to over $3.2 trillion. President Trump believes that $10 trillion in capital will flow to US, a staggering amount of money, equal to over half of the DIJA’s entire market cap. The $10 trillion figure remains aspirational rather than set in stone. American manufacturing declined under the last administration, but we are looking at a sharp uptick over the next few years.

The White House separately publicly disclosed $5.1 trillion in US investments, $2.1 trillion of which were derived from corporate investments and the rest from foreign capital. This falls short of Trump’s $10 trillion figure but still marks an impressive injection of capital into the US economy.

Technology is at the forefront, with investments pouring into Artificial Intelligence (AI). DataVolt, Humain, and G42, and other Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds plan to assist in funding AI development in the USA. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) pledged $1.4 trillion into US  tech, AI, industry, and space. Saudi Arabia is also investing in American AI, along with energy, defense, and infrastructure, all to the tune of $600 billion. Qatar is sending $1.2 trillion to the US for developments in tech, infrastructure, and defense.

Japan has pledged to boost US investments by $1 trillion. However, $787.3 billion had been allotted for US investments back in 2023, and new capital from Japan should increase by $216.7 billion, which is still an impressive posting.

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SoftBank, Oracle, and OpenAI are planning to invest $500 billion in American AI projects over the next four years, with an immediate investment of $100 billion. Now, $500 billion is an incredible amount that equates to 2% of US GDP.

NVIDIA alone is also planning a $500 billion investment in AI infrastructure. The company has moved its operations from Taiwan to the US to avoid tariffs and will begin manufacturing US AI supercomputers domestically.

Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that his corporation will spend “more than $500bn in the US over the next four years.” A new manufacturing plant is opening in Houston in 2026 and will be dedicated to AI projects. The company’s US Advanced Manufacturing Fund will double from $5 billion to $10 billion and provide thousands of new jobs.

IBM has also notably announced investment into US AI. The company plans to insert $150 billion into the US over the next five years. Over $30 billion will be spend on research and development on domestic manufacturing for quantum computers.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has also pledged $100 billion into US manufacturing. Also noteworthy, Roche ($50b), Bristol Myers Squibb ($40bn), and Johnson & Johnson ($55bn) plan to invest heavily in US biotech and pharmaceuticals.

American manufacturing is finally coming back to life after years of stagnation followed by a contraction. Capital is surging into the US at a rapid pace, although not as rapidly as some are suggesting. I have seen articles claiming that $10 trillion will magically appear in the US over the next 60-90 days but that is simply not how trade functions. US manufacturing should see an uptick, with an emphasis on AI development.

May 21 2025

Marxist Hillary Clinton Hates the Nuclear Family – Admits Repopulation is Real


Posted originally on May 21, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

Hillary Clinton infamously blamed women for failing to secure the presidency. Clinton felt entitled to the female vote, but more women voted for Donald Trump than for Hillary Clinton. Instead of acknowledging that women are permitted to hold independent ideas and beliefs, she continually bashes women at every opportunity for not aligning with her views.

“They left me because they just couldn’t take a risk on me, because as a woman, I’m supposed to be perfect. They were willing to take a risk on Trump, who had a long list of, let’s call them flaws, to illustrate his imperfection, because he was a man, and they could envision a man as president and commander in chief,” Clinton said of her 2016 election fail.

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In fact, Rodham–or Clinton, as she prefers her married name– believes that Republican women are unfit to lead. “Well, first of all, don’t be a handmaiden to the patriarchy, which kind of eliminates every woman on the other side of the aisle, except for very few,” Clinton said when asked if she had advice for a potential future woman president. “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood has been a popular portrayal of the far left who believe that allowing individual states to vote for abortion, a motion that was implemented by the US Supreme Court and not the president, is akin to a dystopian society where women are silenced and forced to reproduce.

Clinton said that there are a few conservative women, notably those who have attacked Trump, such as Liz Cheney, who are the rare exception. She then perpetuated the lie that is the Project 2025:

“It’s all in there—the return to the nuclear family, the return to being a Christian nation, return to producing a lot of children, which is sort of odd since the people who produce a lot of children are immigrants.”

Take that all in. Hillary was horrified that voters would like America to return to its roots, believing it would be an absolute tragedy if women had the CHOICE whether to work or raise a family, unlike today, where the economy simply does not allow one income to comfortably support a household in most situations. Children should be placed in expensive child care, run by the state, and parents should continue focusing on churning out taxable wages, and allow the system to raise the next generation.

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Project 2025 has been debunked, but repopulation theory is alive and well. Hillary admits that immigrants here “legally and undocumented” produce “larger than normal—American standard—families.” The left in America and Europe are aggressively pushing mass migration not out of compassion, but out of desperation and control. When you destroy the economic incentive for families to grow through taxation, inflation, and debt—you kill natural reproduction. The West has done exactly that. Financial constraints are the number one reason that young adults are refraining from having children.

The left believes migrants will be engineered into dependency, relying on government welfare and therefore voting for the party that promises perpetual handouts. This is why lawmakers want to prohibit voter ID checks. It is why states are spending their funds on countless social programs for noncitizens. Traditional Western culture is conservative in nature. Replacing the population with people who do not adhere to the traditional Judeo-Christian ideology changes the dynamics of the population at large.

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The traditional nuclear family does not revere the government. Friedrich Engels (pictured above), a pioneer of Marxism, argued against the nuclear family. He believed that the nuclear family perpetuated capitalism, private property ownership, and familial wealth, calling families a “unit of consumption.” Engels believed in communal living, polygamy or group marriage, and the removal of any private property. He argued that this was a feminist concept, as women in that time period were dependent on their husbands rather than the government.

As he writes in “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State”:

“The significant characteristic of monogamous marriage was its transformation of the nuclear family into the basic economic unit of society, within which a woman and her children became dependent upon an individual man. Arising in conjunction with exploitative class relations, this transformation resulted in the oppression of women that has persisted to the present day.”

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Marxism believes that the patriarchy controls women and the state controls men. It believes we should hand over all power to government who will ensure we are all equal—in poverty, as history has shown time and time again. Traditional roles, and gender roles, threaten Marxist philosophy, which is why we have seen gender identity become a massive controversy in recent years, with the left promoting a genderless society.

Hillary Clinton and everyone on the far left has damned the nuclear family because they uphold Marxist beliefs rooted in centralized government power and control.

May 21 2025

Hungary Departs from International Criminal Court


Posted originally on May 21, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

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The Hungarian Parliament voted to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a move that has rattled the European Union. The move comes weeks after Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, who the ICC wants, traveled to Hungary to visit Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

The court of last resort, the idea of a global court came about post-World War II following the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials. The concept gained support once again during the Cold War era amid the slaughter that occurred in Yugoslavia. The Rwanda genocide brought about ad hoc tribunals and led world leaders to seek a global authority to prosecute crimes against humanity, specifically, genocide. The Rome Statute officially established the ICC on July 1, 2002, and received 60 ratifications to officially establish the international court that is located in The Hague, Netherlands. This treaty was negotiated within the United Nations framework, and Article 2 of the Rome Statute requires the ICC to adhere to UN guidelines in the “Negotiated Relationship Agreement.” The UN maintains that the ICC is independent.

Thomas Lubanga Dylio of the Democratic Republic of Congo was the first leader convicted by the ICC for conscripting child soldiers. His 14-year prison sentence ended in 2020. The majority of those who have faced trial are from African nations and have received minimal, if any, international backlash from the West.

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Recently, the ICC has been honing in on alleged crimes in Venezuela, Ukraine, Gaza, the Philippines, and elsewhere as its influence expands. Orban has argued that the ICC is “no longer an impartial court, a rule-of-law court, but rather a political court.” Controversy has arrived as of latterly with the ICC hunting down both Putin and Netanyahu.

“Hungary firmly rejects the use of international organisations – in particular criminal courts – as instruments of political influence,” the bill, submitted by Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen, said on parliament’s website. The measure to withdraw from the ICC passed in a 134-37 vote.

Hungary has learned a valuable lesson about surrendering sovereignty to a globalist entity where unelected officials create the rules. The ICC is no longer an impartial neutral entity but has been weaponized as a tool of the UN. The UN has failed to prevent virtually every major war since World War II—from Korea to Vietnam to Iraq to Ukraine. It talks endlessly, issues non-binding resolutions, and does nothing of substance except expand its bureaucracy and budget. The media is declaring Orban a traitor of the West, a puppet of Russia and Israel. The truth of the matter is that world leaders are becoming increasingly suspicious of globalist entities like the World Health Organization, UN, WEF, HRC, etc. because they see the clear goal of centralized control.

May 21 2025

Armstrong on USA WatchDog


Posted originally on May 20, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

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May 21 2025

Video of Armstrong on Russia Today


Posted originally on May 20, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

May 20 2025

Moody’s US Downgrade AAA to AA1


Posted originally on May 20, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

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Moody’s Investor Service downgraded the United States’ credit rating from a top-tier rating of AAA to AA1 due to rising government debt. Fitch Ratings lowered the US debt in August 2023 for the same reason in August 2023, and while Moody’s did not officially act at the time the agency warned that the US was at risk of a downgrade.

The United States has enjoyed AAA status since 1917—this downgrade is a dire warning. At the current trajectory, the $36 trillion+ deficit is expected to advance from 5.4% of GDP in 2024 to around 9% by 2035. Moody’s believes the United States still offers “exceptional credit strengths,” but debt and payment ratios are now “considerably higher than those of similarly rated sovereign entities.” The agency also cited political instability as a concern, as Republicans and Democrats have been unable to align on methods to meaningfully reduce the deficit.

Treasuries rose following Friday’s downgrade, with the 30-year rising above 5% and the 10-year reaching 4.54%. Investors see a larger risk in government debt and are demanding increased compensation for holding it.

America no longer has the “gold standard” symbolic rating that for years signaled to investors that the US was the safest place to park reserves. This could be a hit to overall confidence, yet there is no better alternative than the US. Increased borrowing costs will only cause the deficit to rise. The government pays an astronomical fee to simply service its debt, with projections from the Congressional Budget Office for 2025 slated to be $952 billion. The US has already paid out $579 billion in the first seven months of FY2025 simply for the burden of holding such an asinine amount of debt. Debt servicing costs are expected to surpass the $1 trillion mark by 2026, with total interest payments over the next decade rising to $13.8 trillion.

I proposed a solution years ago, but no one will listen.

May 20 2025

Qatar and Saudi Arabia Pay Off Syria’s Debt – Long Road to Rebuild


Posted originally on May 20, 2025 by Martin Armstrong |  

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Saudi Arabia and Qatar announced that they have paid off Syria’s outstanding debt of $15.5 million to the World Bank’s International Development Association. “We are pleased that the clearance of Syria’s arrears will allow the World Bank Group to reengage with the country and address the development needs of the Syrian people,” the World Bank said in a statement. This will enable Syria to take on new loans, and secure Qatar’s and Saudi Arabia’s influence in the rebuild.

Syria is still in dire condition after its 14-year conflict. The World Bank said, “The first project in our reengagement with Syria is centered on access to electricity.” The World Bank’s International Development Association can provide Syria with zero—or low-interest loans going forward.

Investments are pouring into Syria from across the Gulf. Trump lifting sanctions signaled that Syria is open for business. Dubai signed a $800 million memorandum to rebuild the port of Tartus, marking the largest foreign investment in Syria to date.

Although tons of investments and calls for an epic rebuild are coming from around the world, we must remember that Syria is a war-torn, third-world nation that is barely surviving. Syria is desperate for stable basic infrastructure. The national grid is extremely unreliable and has been unable to generate enough electricity to meet demand. Estimates states only 1,500 MW was produced in the beginning of the year, amounting to around 2 hours of electricity per day for the population who has access to the grid. Around 2.5 to 3 million Syrians do not have any access to electricity.  Those who do have access regularly experience multi-day blackouts. There is mass corruption and regions favored by the regime notably have more access to electricity compared to others.

Worse, half of Syria’s water and sanitation systems are inoperable, leading to severe water shortages. The United Nations warned that Syria was the most drought-prone nation in the Mediterranean on its Global Conflict Risk Index. It is estimated that 98% of Syrians had access to basic drinking water in 2011, before the war. That figure has plummeted to 50% at best. The Euphrates River, Syria’s main freshwater source, has seen its flow drop by more than half since 2021 due to drought and restrictions implemented by Turkey.

Since the pipelines flowing throughout the nation were damage by warfare, many regions relied on trucked water, with an estimated 6.9 million people only having access to their primary water source for two to seven days per month. Contaminated water caused tens of thousands of cholera outbreaks, and the nation has little to no access to health care.

Over 65% of the population, or 16 million people, cannot access health care. All of the skilled workers and doctors left the country long ago, education has been minimal, and hospitals are severely understaffed. Estimates believe only 37% of primary health care centers are operational, with 57% of hospitals operating to some capacity. The nation entirely relies on foreign humanitarian aid.

The people of Syria are living in atrocious conditions. Over half the nation is food insecure, half cannot access water, and the majority barely have access to electricity. An estimated 90% of the public lives well below the poverty line. GDP plummeted by two-thirds since 2011, and the Syrian pound also fell by two-thirds in 2023 alone. The SYP was about 47 to the dollar before the war, and now, the exchange rate is around 11,000 to 13,000 per USD. Many regions use the Turkish lira is given the opportunity but one in four Syrians cannot find work, and those who do manage to find public sector employment are living on under $70 USD (1.2 million SYP) per months when the cost of living for a family of five is around 14.5 million SYP.

So while we may hear of these lucrative opportunities to rebuild Syria, the nation is still in complete disarray. Investments from nations like Qatar and Saudi Arabia are desperately needed, but it will take time for the nation to recover from such a devastating low.

May 20 2025

Biden Told Us He Had Cancer in 2022


Posted originally on May 20, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

The Biden family announced that Joe Biden is fighting an aggressive form of prostate cancer. The medical community is questioning if this diagnosis was well-known long before the announcement. Yet, a clip from July 2022 is circulating in which Joe Biden directly says that he has cancer.

On July 20, 2022, Biden was speaking in Massachusetts about the dangers of fossil fuels, stating that his mother would need to use the windshield wipers to remove the oil slick from the car. “That’s why I – and so damn many other people I grew up with – have cancer,” the former president clearly stated.

The White House immediately issued a statement to say that Biden had a cancerous skin lesion removed years ago. The media downplayed his admission as a “gaffe,” as for four long years the public was told to believe that statements made by the president may not be accurate. We were told to accept that the President of the United States had a difficult time with public speaking, and the White House would confirm or deny the words that came out of his mouth.

White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor declared that Joe Biden was “fit for duty” during his last exam in February 2024, when the world was questioning his mental health. Dr. O’Connor claimed Joe Biden was a “healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.” Arthritis and sleep apnea were his only cited medical issues. Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) is a simple test that has been around since the 1980s that monitors a protein produced in cancerous prostate cells. Estimates state that the survival rate is around 98% when detected early, and one would imagine that the President of the United States had access to the best medical doctors in the nation. Yet, they failed to perform this simple test, as indicated by public health records.

Now, the Biden family had close personal ties to Dr. O’Connor. Joe’s sister-in-law, Sara Biden, described Dr. O’Connor as a “friend.” “Colonel O’Connor was actually a friend and he — we would frequently ask for his recommendations if any of us had a medical issue,” Sara Biden said in 2019 during a deposition from a malpractice case filed by her stepdaughter against a specialist referred to her by O’Connor. Dr. O’Connor invited Hunter, Jim, and a dozen other Bidens to his military retirement party in July 2017.

In mid-2017, Joe’s brother Jim attempted to secure Veterans Affairs contracts with the hospital chain, Americore. He utilized the help of Dr. O’Connor who arranged a meeting between Jim and the hospital’s president. “You and your team clearly share our vision,” O’Connor wrote to the hospital president following the business meeting. Dr. O’Connor had been a personal friend and mentor for the Biden family for years before officially taking on the White House physician role in 2021.

“Sad and unfortunate and I wish the former President the best in his treatment of this cancer,” Congressman Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), who previously served as the White House physician, wrote on X. “Care at the White House should be second to none. Unbelievable this was missed, but the truth is, his physician was more concerned about assisting with the political cover up than providing world class medical care.”

Ironically, Biden fired former White House physician Dr. Sean Conley to install Dr. Kevin O’Connor. It is not unusual for a president to hire a personal physician. However, Dr. Conley faced intense media scrutiny for allegedly sugar-coating then-President Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis. Dr. Conley later admitted he “was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude,” but in the end, Donald Trump was fine. Rear Admiral Dr. Ronny Jackson faced similar criticism for giving President Trump an optimistic medical review. As ABC News reported when Dr. O’Connor was appointed, “A source close to the president said Biden would never ask O’Connor to lie for him, and O’Connor would never offer. The two wouldn’t want to disappoint each other,” the source added.

Urologist Dr. David Shusterman stated that it is extremely unlikely for someone to develop aggressive prostate cancer when receiving annual checkups suddenly. “Most likely had it for a long time […] Aggressive prostate cancer grows over a long period of time. Five to ten years [in] the most aggressive form,” Dr. Shusterman said. “He is a former president, had intensive state of the art care […] It’s unusual to hear that someone has prostate cancer when they’re annually being followed up. The fact that we find it at a Gleason 9 is unheard of.”

Dr. Chris George, medical director of the cancer program for the Northwestern Health Network, told Reuters that it is safe to assume that the president was receiving annual PSA checks. “What concerns me … is the fact that the cancer has been reported to have already spread beyond the prostate to the bones. And when the cancer has spread to the bones, that makes it stage 4, that means that the cancer is not curable,” George said. “There’s no treatment available that can cure the cancer. There’s definitely treatment available that can control the cancer.”

Dr. Shusterman said that even among the medically neglected population, it would be almost unheard of for someone to have such a sudden and severe diagnosis. He believes that even the most aggressive form of this cancer could take nine to 10 years to develop. The truth of the matter is that the Democrats likely knew Biden was physically and cognitively unable to serve. The man in charge of assessing Biden’s health was a personal family friend with ties spanning back to 2009. Are we to believe that the former President of the United States was a victim of medical malpractice?

May 19 2025

The Deep State – Silencing Free Speech Here Too


Posted originally on May 19, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

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COMMENT: Marty, I just had to comment that anyone who does not interview you is either part of the Deep State, or they listen to the Deep State. You have more experience than the rest of the crowd combined; you have been persecuted for knowing too much. It was great to put Marcus on the stage at the WEC and let him explain how they tried to prevent people from meeting with you or interviewing you when you were being silenced. Oliver Brown in the Forecaster said the FBI was at his door trying to discourage him from being in Marcus’ movie. It was interesting to hear how the New Yorker Magazine had to threaten Washington, asking why they could not interview you when they could get an interview with even terrorists.

Anyone who refuses to interview you is part of the same agenda as the Deep State. Plain and simple. I will no longer listen to any program that does not interview you. They are indistinguishable from mainstream media. That’s why they are making movies about you, nobody else.

Jed

I have written to _______ and ________ and never got a reply. They are not to be trusted in my book.

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REPLY: I cannot disagree. I know a few people who interviewed me and then got calls not to have me on again. They have joined mainstream media while pretending to report the truth. There is no difference between Europe and the suppression of free speech, and how they are handling the press here in the USA. They do it covertly here in the States. The government makes phone calls, and they do as they are asked. We saw that in COVID. Let me explain something, since this will be in the new version of the Forecaster. During the 2007-2010 Great Recession, I communicated with the House Financial Services Committee and others. I am really the only one with the same level of experience as the top bankers, but I’m on the other side of the fence.

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I believe I was thrown in the hole to cut off my communications at the request of the bankers applying pressure to the DOJ. I was writing from the hole thanks to some guards who were sneaking them out. When you are in the hole, they cut off all phone privileges. Mail is censored in and out. Most of the guards were pissed off at what they were doing to me. The reason Oliver Brown wanted to be in the movie was that when the first 18-month contempt sentence was up, they refused to release me and told him I was probably innocent and they were just trying to break me.

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Then a letter from Congress was sent to the prison asking to investigate who threw me in the hole and why. I was suddenly taken out, and everyone threw the warden under the bus. The extent to which they have tried to silence me is unprecedented. It has led to even more institutions coming out and saying that now they know I am not part of the NY Crowd, so that they can trust me.

The real question that bothered me was how they knew Marcus Vetter would film Oliver Brown that day? They must have been illegally tapping Marcus’ phone calls for the FBI to show up the day before to intimidate him. You can’t make up this stuff. They have gone to extreme lengths to prevent people from listening to anything I have to say. Period! Welcome to free speech in America.

MA Plea

Anyone with 10% of brain function still working can just read my plea, which was written by the government that I had to read. It said I failed to tell my clients that the bank stole the money for its own benefit, not mine.

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I was not allowed to speak in my own words. Like any hostage, I had to read a script written by the government, which is unconstitutional, but they do not give a shit in NYC. I went to my lawyer on Friday, August 27th, 1999, and he sent a letter demanding the return of the money on Monday. They claimed I should have told my clients over the weekend, who were all major public companies.

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This is the Department of Justice. Charles Dickens wrote in Bleak House about how corrupt the justice system was, and that was in England in the mid-19th century. Nothing has changed.

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I received no restitution, there were no defaults on my part, and my clients supported me. I instructed them to sue the bank, and they did. The government was pissed off that I was helping my clients since the bank stole $1 billion after losing billions in the Russia collapse. That meant the bank would have to return the money instead of pretending I had it stashed somewhere, even though it is impossible to get $1 billion out of a bank, and nobody knows where it went since that can only be done by wire.

Let me know if any lawyer has succeeded in suing Wikipedia, which the government controls. The co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, is now warning the public not to trust the website he helped to create. “You can trust it to give an establishment view,” Sanger admitted, explaining that the website’s original design has been destroyed.

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The government put a gag order on me to stop me from helping my clients against the bank – HSBC.

So I am the piece of shit – and the bankers walk on water in NYC.

Never has any banker been sent to prison for their schemes. NEVER!

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May 19 2025

Baby Stakeholders?


Posted originally on May 19, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

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Senator Ted Cruz of Texas believes that the federal government should provide each child $1,000 at birth to be invested in the stock market. “Every child in America will have private investment accounts that will compound over their lives, enhancing the prosperity and economic participation of the vast majority of Americans,” Cruz said. Around 3.6 million children were born in the US last year, meaning that the federal government would need to set aside $3.6 billion a year to fund this program.

Cruz’s program would permit family and friends to add $5,000 annually to these private investment accounts, with the hope that the compounding interest will give these kids a head start in life. “What I’m interested in is giving these kids the ability to climb the economic ladder much, much faster to accumulate wealth,” Cruz told CNBC. “I think there’s a real power to making them investors and stakeholders in the economy.”

This is not a completely new concept. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey proposed providing newborns with funds for investing that would be worth up to $2,000, but rather than investing in the private sector, they would hold treasuries or “baby bonds.” Hillary Clinton also proposed a “baby bond” worth up to $5,000 during her first presidential campaign, costing the public $18 billion annually.

Future generations pay for social programs and the surmounting national debt. Cruz, Clinton, and Booker fail to realize that these programs require funding which comes from these future taxpayers. In a December 2024 interview, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell stated, “We’re borrowing from future generations. And every generation really should pay for the things that it needs.” Massive spending packages are detrimental in the long run and cause more harm than good.

There’s a strong chance that many parents would simply pocket the funds or not know how to properly invest it in the market. Around 62% of Americans currently hold equities, but the majority own through retirement accounts. Only 21% of American families directly own stocks. The public education system should begin teaching future generations about investment and personal finance, as one in four Americans are financially illiterate.

Suppose lawmakers actually want to improve the lives of future generations. In that case, they need to stop adopting policies that saddle the American public with debt that they then forcibly collect through increased taxation.