David Friedberg on All-In Podcast: “Friedberg calculates that 5% interest rates would add $650 billion yea”

David Friedberg · All-In Podcast · 13 February 2026

“But if rates climb closer to 5%, as I mentioned in the past, just using the current debt levels, it adds another $650,000,000,000 a year of interest expense, which takes interest expense almost up to 2,000,000,000,000 a year just paying the interest on the past debt.”

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