PROFILES IN COWARDICE: House Passes Gov’t Funding Bill That Does Nothing To Fix Debt Crisis. “The national debt surpassed $40 trillion on Aug. 20 and the deficit reached $2 trillion in the 2026 fiscal year. The 30-year Treasury bond yield reached a 19-year high due to the soaring government debt, prompting the Department of Treasury to double the size of its long-dated Treasury buybacks from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation.”

“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop,” the wise man once said.