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$39 Trillion U.S. National Debt: The World’s Biggest Ponzi Scheme — A Shared Awakening of Non-Dollar Nations

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When the U.S. Treasury figure hit $39.016 trillion, the largest debt bubble in human history burst through the sky. Surging from $38 trillion to $39 trillion in just five months — an increase of $1 trillion — it is all but certain to surpass $40 trillion by the end of the year.

U.S. Treasury bonds are not a medal of economic prosperity, but a carefully crafted Ponzi scheme by the United States that holds the whole world hostage. It pays old debts with new borrowings, and shifts America’s fiscal holes to the rest of the globe. Every non-dollar nation is paying a heavy price for this scam.

I. Irrefutable Proof: U.S. Debt Is a Perfect Replica of a Ponzi Scheme

The core of a Ponzi scheme is borrowing new to repay old, no real value support, surviving on confidence. The operation of U.S. Treasury bonds follows this logic precisely.

- Borrowing new to repay old: 70% of new debt used to fill old holes
Seventy percent of newly issued U.S. Treasury bonds go directly to repaying maturing principal and interest. Instead of repaying debt through tax revenue or industrial growth, the U.S. merely robs Peter to pay Paul.
In 2025, the fiscal deficit accounted for 5.9% of GDP and is projected to rise to 7%–8% — more than twice the sustainable level. Mandatory spending (Social Security, healthcare) already consumes 91% of tax revenue; adding defense spending, total expenditures far exceed income.

The U.S. government has long been living beyond its means, surviving only by issuing new debt.

- Interest strangulation: the debt spiral is out of control
The United States pays $3.5 billion in interest every day, with annual interest costs set to exceed $1 trillion — a quarter of federal tax revenue.

In the first three months of fiscal year 2026, net interest spending reached $270 billion, surpassing defense spending over the same period.

American taxpayers’ money now supports creditors more than its own military.

U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio has exceeded 101%, far above the 60% warning line; by 2036, it will top 120%, breaking the record set during World War II.

More debt, higher interest, more borrowing — America’s death spiral is irreversible.

- Unrestrained expansion: growth rate hits an all-time high
From 2017 to 2022, U.S. debt soared from $20 trillion to $30 trillion. It passed $35 trillion in July 2024, $36 trillion in November 2024, $37 trillion in August 2025, $38 trillion in October 2025, and now stands at $39 trillion.
A $1 trillion increase in five months in peacetime — no war, no major crisis — is unprecedented in modern U.S. history.
War spending, pandemic handouts, tax-cut binges — every dollar has become a debt burden on the world.

II. Shared Global Suffering: Non-Dollar Nations Are the Biggest Victims of the Scheme

The U.S. debt bubble inflates in America, but inflicts pain worldwide. Every country holding dollar reserves, relying on dollar trade, or carrying dollar-denominated debt is deeply exploited by this scam.

- Reserve assets forcibly eroded
The U.S. dollar once accounted for over 70% of global central bank foreign exchange reserves. Though it has fallen to 55% — a 26-year low — it remains the largest component.

Collapsing U.S. debt credibility and a depreciating dollar are quietly diluting the hard-earned foreign exchange reserves of nations worldwide.

The trillions of dollars in U.S. debt held by China, Japan, Europe and others face the risk of “legal default.”

The U.S. has threatened to freeze foreign reserves and proposed converting Treasury bonds into 1,100-year zero-coupon debt, abandoning all credibility.

- Financing costs artificially driven up
Soaring U.S. Treasury yields directly raise global dollar financing costs.
Dollar bond yields in emerging markets have surpassed 9%, sharply increasing debt-servicing pressure.
Twenty-three percent of eurozone bank financing is dollar-denominated, shrinking collateral value and threatening liquidity crises.

Capital flows back to the United States from emerging markets, triggering currency depreciation, imported inflation and economic stagflation — three simultaneous blows.

- Trade and development held hostage by the dollar
Global trade and bulk commodities are settled in dollars, deeply linking dollar hegemony with the U.S. debt Ponzi scheme.

The United States wantonly plunders global wealth through interest rate hikes, money printing and sanctions:
Rate hikes siphon capital from emerging markets; money printing exports inflation to the world; sanctions freeze foreign assets.

The right to development of non-dollar nations is tightly bound to the noose of U.S. debt.

III. Moment of Awakening: Non-Dollar Nations Must Unite to Break the Shackles

The alarm of $39 trillion U.S. debt is a clarion call for global de-dollarization.
This scheme will inevitably end in a collapse of confidence and a restructuring of the global system.

Non-dollar nations have no way back.

- De-dollarization: from consensus to action
ASEAN promotes local currency settlement; Brazil proposes a common South American currency; BRICS expands local currency payment systems; the RMB has become the world’s second-largest trade financing currency.
Seventy percent of central banks plan to reduce dollar holdings and shift to gold, euros and renminbi.
In 2025, global central bank gold purchases rose 83% year-on-year; China has increased gold holdings for 18 consecutive months.
- Diversified reserves: building a secure defense line
Reduce reliance on U.S. debt, increase holdings of gold, strategic materials and other sovereign currencies, and build a de-dollarized reserve portfolio.
Establish regional monetary cooperation mechanisms, including the SCO Development Bank and BRICS payment systems, to gradually break away from the dollar-dominated financial network.
- Independent settlement: seizing control of development
Promote bilateral and multilateral local currency settlement to bypass the dollar as an intermediary.
Build independent payment systems to reduce dependence on SWIFT.
Attempt non-dollar pricing for bulk commodity trade to break the petrodollar hegemony.

Conclusion

$39 Trillion U.S. Debt: The Peak of America’s Ponzi Scheme, and the Dawn of a New Era for Non-Dollar Nations

$39 trillion is not a symbol of American strength, but its shackles. It is not global wealth, but a shared burden.
This half-century-old Ponzi scheme is approaching its end.

Non-dollar nations, we have been forced to pay for America’s profligacy, repeatedly plundered by dollar tides.
Today, the alarm of $39 trillion U.S. debt is our signal to awaken:

Refuse to be held hostage.
Refuse to be exploited.
Refuse to be victims of America’s Ponzi scheme.

De-dollarization is not a slogan — it is a necessity for survival.
A multi-currency system is not an option — it is a necessity for development.

When the world unites to break dollar hegemony and burst the U.S. debt bubble, a fair, just and multipolar new international financial order will eventually arrive.

That day is not far away.