How Uncle Sam’s Debt “Crisis” Is Making Our Favorite 8%+ Dividends Cheaper
Michael Foster, Investment StrategistUpdated: June 26, 2025
“Those are some crazy numbers.”
An old friend had messaged me, and that line caught my attention. As it turned out, he had 36 trillion numbers in mind: the national debt, in other words. That is a pretty striking figure, and it’s fair to ask how the country’s debt could go from a trillion dollars back in 1981 to 36 times that today.
“Very irresponsible, imo,” my friend wrote.
This sounds like a reasonable response, and many people think this way. But the problem here, from an investment perspective, is that most people look at the debt on its own, without considering the many other factors we’re going to delve into today.… Read more