This is absurdly alarmist. While we can all agree debt isn't a good thing, there are a plethora of tools the Fed and the US Govt has at its disposal. It could:

This is absurdly alarmist. While we can all agree debt isn't a good thing, there are a plethora of tools the Fed and the US Govt has at its disposal. It could: Buy higher than market prices, such as how the BOJ or Eurozone manages its yield curve Cut social spending programs such as Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security Cut defense spending Increase taxes Inflation cuts existing debt amounts Or any combination of these. Realistically, most of these. This yield curve inversion has long been expected and isn't some kind of harbinger of doom. China meanwhile has its own set of precarious economic issues and isn't guaranteed anything.