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The Government’s Spending and Debt Have Pushed the U.S. to the Brink of the Abyss

By The Stream Published on February 25, 2025

In this 50-minute interview for The Daily Clout, Naomi Wolf talks to Birch Gold’s Phillip Patrick on just how unsustainable our nation’s debt and spending are — and what this could mean for nothing less than the possible collapse of the U.S. “empire.” He teases out the implications of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and explores how the markets are reacting. Whatever the Department of Government Efficiency is able to accomplish, given the stagnant ideas prevailing in Congress, rocky times lie ahead before we can reach a more sustainable economy.