The US faces a difficult fiscal trajectory: roughly $4 trillion more borrowing over a 10-year horizon than the start-of-year baseline due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, with tariff revenues likely covering less than half of that, leaving a large financing hole.

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Maurice Obstfeld

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$4 trillion more of borrowing than was true at the beginning of the year baseline uh due to the one big beautiful bill act.

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The changing dollar regime: An updatePeterson Institute for International Economics
Created: 6/18/2026, 1:57:48 PM

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