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Elon Musk Says We’re ‘1000% Going to Go Bankrupt’ Without Al and Robots — ‘We’re Totally Screwed’ as Interest on National Debt Tops $1 Trillion barchart.com/story/news/411032…

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Alex DeWolf @TrackNetWorth · D

@Barchart bailout bonds funding robot overlords is peak fiscal policy

Swing Trader @WolfOfSwings · D

@Barchart Don’t worry, the robots will just work overtime and pay off the $1T interest for us. What could possibly go wrong?

Michczy @michczy · D
Lucas Bennett @gabeedavis_ ·

@Barchart Appreciate this kind of analysis. It’s always valuable hearing from people who focus on the bigger picture. @GwenPoth included.

Xmarksthespot @hopskipjumpy ·

@Barchart Very true we're screwed. Whether robots and AI will solve it isnt clear. I'd expect a large war is more likely in between.

Everyman Smith @EverymanSmith · C

@Barchart It's been the dead-end play for about 2 years now, pick your chosen outcome: 1: AI stocks keep rising, firms keep spending, market booms, AI replaces jobs, jobs gone. 2: AI stocks fail to keep rising, lack of spending causes recession, market dumps, jobs gone.

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Geovani @GeovaniFer7r · D

@Barchart We don’t need Ai 😂😂

Mind Math Money @MindMathMoney · 13K D

@Barchart Most of that trillion isn't new borrowing. It's old cheap debt coming due and getting replaced at today's rates. So the rate path moves that number more than the spending fight does.

Psychosphere Desk @PsychosphereX · D

@Barchart elon's right about the number. wrong about the cure. a trillion in interest doesn't get solved by automating the people who can't afford the debt they're already carrying. you don't outrun a spiral. you just spin faster until something gives.

pourman🍻 @Cory_hil · C

@Barchart What does it solve? Fewer tax payers?

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Quant_shigara @shigarana · D

@Barchart Elon's model: Create the problem (spend trillions), hype the solution (Optimus), dump the stock at the top. Masterclass in macro-marketing.

Rohan Arun @RohanArun · D

@Super_Powers_AI Hey Super, build a National Debt vs AI Productivity Simulator inspired by the Barchart market report on Elon Musk warning of sovereign fiscal bankruptcy as annual national debt interest tops $1 Trillion without massive AI and robotics productivity growth. app.getsupers.com/sites/debt-a… The tool must provide an interactive, rigorous 30-year sovereign fiscal simulation engine that allows economists, investors, policy analysts, and citizens to model how technological automation, labor augmentation, and robotics capital deepening alter the compounding trajectory of sovereign debt, federal tax receipts, and net interest expenses. The application must load immediately into an active, fully runnable default state modeling current macroeconomic baselines ($35.2T gross public debt, $1.05T+ annual net interest expense, 3.4% weighted effective debt yield, 2.1% baseline real GDP growth). In the very first viewport, visitors must be able to interactively adjust the AI Productivity Frontier slider or toggle between curated scenario presets—including the 'Musk Automation Supercycle', 'Status Quo $1T+ Interest Trap', 'Moderate Labor Augmentation', and 'Fiscal Stagflation Spiral'—and immediately observe live updates across interactive dynamic trajectory charts rendering Debt-to-GDP %, Annual Net Interest Expense ($T), and Tax Revenue vs Outlays. Include an interactive year-by-year timeline scrubber that reveals the precise tipping points where net interest eclipses defense/discretionary budgets or triggers unsustainable refinancing burdens.

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One-Chair @shidcoiner · D

@Barchart We = he Elon has emerged as the biggest liar since taking over twitter.

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Edward Dean @EdwardDeano · C

@Barchart I thought Elon was in charge of the Department of DOGE. The US deficit has only grown since he took over.

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carlins.3v!l.twin @mind_dom ·

@Barchart Aw the spigot gets shut off x.com/mind_dom/status/20926626…

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Jesper Windsmose @windsmose · D

@Barchart 🤡

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Taffy @__b___k__ ·

@Barchart TAX THE RICH

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Rogue Wolf @MJBKNY · D

@Barchart He needs that national debt to keep rising to fund his businesses. All of them are heavily supported by tax dollars.

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James 🇺🇸 @James_on_X ·

@Barchart American Idol winners were so-so singers, but they were still "winners". Same with US debt compared to the rest of the world. The US will be the "winner".

Im not giving up @Dave4Trees ·

@Barchart tesla and space x will go before the US

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space traveler @puweifeng145191 ·

@Barchart A bloke like Gargamel from *The Smurfs*

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WesTex @WesTex86 · D

@Barchart Lol. Is he going to tax the robots to pay off the debt? STFU

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MidnightRider @pilky0001 ·

@Barchart I kinda don’t care what this moron has to say he’s been wrong as fuck

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A Concerned Human @inner_concerns · D

@Barchart @elonmusk That's not the only problem. PQC breaks the entire stack. Don't worry. I'm fixing it.

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Crushed Between @CrushedBetween · D

@Barchart Robots will take a while. AI already handles the work you were never going to pay someone to do.

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Invest_Ar_1321 @InvestAr1321 ·

@Barchart Wishful thinking at its best.

RaMaduro @nestiangoni420 ·

@Barchart Fuck this idiot

Wickedword @stanfill_j29475 ·

@Barchart Funny that this bullshit rhetoric wasn't circulating from the tech bros BEFORE AI...

AC⚡DC (Unsupervised) @PGStheone · D

@Barchart As any AI and Robots salesman would say.

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Anindya Banerjee @AnindyaB2026 ·

@Barchart Translation: De dollarisation is killing the debt binge machine of usa. So americans, get ready for mass lay offs and permanent and massive drop in income and wealth.. next 5 years

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June Larkspur @jabebi1 · D

@Barchart Why didn’t he fix it when he was in charge of DOGE?

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Peter Gregor @GregorPepe · D

@Barchart Why did he cowardly flee from DOGE?

Hillie @Hillie1971 ·

@Barchart I hear bailouts coming next.

John Monk @Da_monk23 · C

@Barchart Street Speak: Uncle Sam is now a broke ass bitch

FRDM @FRDMCrypto · D

@Barchart Interest on the debt is the part of the story that never trends. It is quietly the biggest line item now.

Brett Pollauf @BrettPolla1866 ·

@Barchart He’s pushing the beast narrative, he’s Satan beast trying to pose as a lamb, lots of ignorant Americans are fooled, not Christ followers

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whatsystemhides @whatsystemhides ·

@Barchart Musk says AI and robots will stop bankruptcy. But the Treasury refinances forever. The central bank absorbs what the market rejects. The $1 trillion interest is not a flaw. It is the mechanism. What would AI fix that the current design does not already profit from?

NorthgateCapitalPartners @NorthGate_Cap ·

@Barchart The US Is Already Bankrupt BK. Whether You’re And Individual; Corporation Or Nation, When You’re Borrowing To Finance/ Pay The Interest On The #Debt, You’re Effectively Bankrupt. @elonmusk

Salvatore BCE 🇮🇹🇺🇸 @NapuleSalvatore · D

@Barchart You’ll own nothing and receive universal POORs social incomes … 🤣

Slade Grantham @sladechaosforce ·

@Barchart Why are you crying this is what you created with your russian friends.

Gary Ludwig @ChiefGaryLudwig ·

@Barchart Obviously, the Tesla has and Tesla and SpaceX shorts are out today. You you guys will be the same ones running down the railroad stocks in the 1800s as they built the infracture moving west and on all the tracks off land on either side on the tracks, including the towns.

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LSMO @LSbyMO · D

@Barchart But the ballroom Sir

People Died to be Educated @AscendedSaiyaji · D

@Barchart Fck this guy

Veli @ChaoticEwil · D

@Barchart No. AI is a commodity and you will go bankrupt WITH AI and robots.

Psychic Trader @BonSi35115 · C

@Barchart LOL!!!! "We're"

Nadine Jasper 🇬🇧🚜🗽🚛 @nadine_jasper ·

@Barchart Screwed with them too. All that UBI is printed money adding more trillions to USA debt. Or the goverment could just MAID you all to save $. Whichever.

Jamie Huddleston @JamieHuddlest12 ·

@Barchart Please stop giving this bullshit artist airtime