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America's Debt Just Crossed 100% of GDP.
Friday, May 15, 2026 | Kiyosaki Uncensored
Dear Reader,
While you watched Trump shake hands with Xi in Beijing, something happened that no one in the mainstream press bothered to tell you.
America's national debt crossed 100% of GDP. For the first time since World War II.
The last time we hit this number, we were fighting the Axis powers. Building tanks. Ships. Planes. We had a reason.
What's our reason today?
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In today's issue:
• The fiscal milestone they buried under the Beijing photo-op
• The debt clock growing at $85,550 every single second
• Silver up 157% in one year. Gold up 41%. What real assets are telling you right now.
• The #1 stock to buy before the SpaceX IPO. Get the free ticker here.
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Let me give you the numbers they did not report.
Total gross national debt as of May 5, 2026: $38.91 TRILLION.
Growing at $7.39 billion per day. That is $5.13 million per minute. That is $85,550 per second. The debt will hit $39 trillion by May 18. Three days from now.
Public debt has officially exceeded GDP. The government owes more than the entire country produces in a year. The last time that happened, Franklin Roosevelt was in the White House and American boys were dying on Pacific beaches.
What did Washington say about this milestone? Almost nothing. The story was buried. Everyone was focused on the Beijing summit: the Boeing deal, the state banquet, Xi warning Trump about Taiwan over dinner.
Theater. All of it.
“We've heard plenty of alarm bells in the past few years about our fiscal path, but this one rings especially loudly. The real question is whether or not our leaders in Washington will listen.”
She is being polite. I am not.
The government currently spends $1.33 for every dollar of revenue it collects. Every single dollar. They are spending 33 cents they do not have. Every day. On top of a $38.91 trillion pile they already cannot pay back.
My poor dad believed in savings accounts, job security, and trusting the government with money. My rich dad told me: “Robert, when a government owes money it cannot repay, it has one option. It prints.”
He was right in 1974. He is right in 2026.
Now, the Federal Reserve. They just held rates at 3.50% to 3.75%. Their own description of inflation: “elevated.” Four of twelve board members could not agree on which direction to move. The highest internal dissent since 1992. And incoming Fed Chair Warsh is already signaling the next move might be a hike.
The Fed is not in control. It is trapped.
But here is the number inside that number that almost nobody is talking about. A figure buried in the government's own data. And once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
Here it is: For the first time in American history, the federal government now spends more on interest payments than on national defense.
More than on Medicare. More than on any other single line item in the federal budget.
We spent $628 billion in interest payments in just the first part of fiscal year 2026. That is $2.96 billion per day. Just to service the debt we already have. Before one soldier gets paid. Before one road gets built. Before one Medicare check goes out.
I have been studying monetary history since the 1970s. I know exactly where this goes. Every empire that reaches this point faces the same binary. Default on the debt or inflate the currency. They always choose inflation. Always.
Rome debased its coinage. Weimar printed. The British Empire borrowed until the pound lost its reserve status. The pattern never changes. Only the names do.
Now look at what real assets are doing.
Silver: up 157% in 12 months. From $32.93 a year ago to roughly $85 today. I started buying silver in 1965 when it cost pennies. I have been saying for years: buy silver up to $100 and wait. We are almost there.
Gold: up 41% in one year, sitting near $4,615 an ounce today.
These are not tips from a hot newsletter. These are the market screaming that something is deeply wrong with the currency. When the dollar is sick, hard assets go up. That is not a theory. That is 5,000 years of human history.
You have choices right now. Real choices. Gold. Silver. Bitcoin. Oil. Real estate. Assets that cannot be printed. Assets that governments have tried for centuries to compete with and failed.
The Beijing summit was theater. The debt clock is the real story.
And it does not stop ticking.
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To your freedom,
Robert Kiyosaki
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