{"id":2201,"date":"2026-05-06T14:55:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lp.spep.co.kr\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2026-05-08T17:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:02:17","slug":"u-s-debt-exceeds-gdp-for-first-time-since-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lp.spep.co.kr\/?p=2201","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Debt Exceeds GDP for First Time Since World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"post-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"U.S. debt exceeds country&#039;s GDP for first time since World War II\" width=\"1165\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WXN3xNtWufw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#06659c\" class=\"has-inline-color\">VOCABULARY &amp; EXPRESSIONS<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark>grim<\/mark>:<\/strong><mark style=\"background-color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> <\/mark><mark style=\"background-color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">\uc554\uc6b8\ud55c, \uc2ec\uac01\ud55c<\/mark><br>The United States has hit a <strong><em>grim<\/em><\/strong> financial milestone.<br><br><strong><mark>valuation<\/mark>: <\/strong>\uae30\uc5c5 \uac00\uce58<br><strong><mark>obscure<\/mark>: <\/strong>\uac00\ub9ac\ub2e4, \ub36e\uc5b4\ubc84\ub9ac\ub2e4<br>Yeah, look, we have these record-shattering stock market <strong><em>valuations<\/em><\/strong> we talk about all the time, but it <strong><em>obscures<\/em><\/strong> a very inconvenient and very important more important development.<br><br><strong><mark>reform<\/mark>: <\/strong>\uac1c\ud601<br>There&#8217;s no even the slightest pretense of <strong><em>reforms<\/em><\/strong> that would rein in all of the stuff as its spending.<br><br><strong><mark>entitlement<\/mark>: <\/strong>\uc758\ubb34\uc9c0\ucd9c<br>And we talk a lot in these debates about discretionary and defense spending, but really most of the heat and light in the federal budget really takes place in <strong><em>entitlement<\/em><\/strong> spending.<br><br><strong><mark>allure<\/mark>: <\/strong>\ub9e4\ub825<br>The Treasury has you know, lost the little Treasury debt has been losing a lot of what it calls its risk-free <strong><em>allure<\/em><\/strong>.<br><br><strong><mark>liquid<\/mark>: <\/strong>\uc720\ub3d9\uc131\uc774 \ub192\uc740<br>People want Treasuries because they&#8217;re safe and they&#8217;re <strong><em>liquid<\/em><\/strong>, but there are all these risks out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOCABULARY &amp; EXPRESSIONS grim: \uc554\uc6b8\ud55c, \uc2ec\uac01\ud55cThe United States has hit a grim financial milestone. valuation: \uae30\uc5c5 \uac00\uce58obscure: \uac00\ub9ac\ub2e4, \ub36e\uc5b4\ubc84\ub9ac\ub2e4Yeah, look, we have these record-shattering stock market valuations we talk about all the time, but it obscures a very inconvenient and very important more important development. reform: \uac1c\ud601There&#8217;s no even the slightest pretense of reforms that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[86,78,79],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lp.spep.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lp.spep.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lp.spep.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lp.spep.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lp.spep.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lp.spep.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/lp.spep.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lp.spep.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lp.spep.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lp.spep.co.kr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}