Monday, May 6, 2019

New Forecast: We only have until 2049

My previous projection is that: There won't be a Debt Crisis.  Before that, I was projecting a TEOTWAWKI event in 2053, and before that in 2043, and before that in 2032.

So I took my previous numbers through 2029 (which came from the CBO).  Then I used numbers from the 2018 Long-Term Budget Outlook through 2048.  So these are mostly CBO's numbers. Here is what I came up with:








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Debt
Debt %
Net SS
Year Revenues Outlays Deficit Public GDP of GDP
Interest Outlays
2018 3,329 4,108 -779 15,751 20,236 77.8%
325 982
2019 3,515 4,416 -901 16,636 21,252 78.3%
383 1,039
2020 3,686 4,604 -918 17,601 22,120 79.6%
465 1,102
2021 3,841 4,830 -989 18,626 22,939 81.2%
528 1,171
2022 4,012 5,061 -1,049 19,795 23,778 83.2%
571 1,245
2023 4,208 5,329 -1,121 20,976 24,672 85.0%
641 1,323
2024 4,448 5,577 -1,129 22,112 25,642 86.2%
692 1,403
2025 4,647 5,835 -1,188 23,300 26,656 87.4%
720 1,487
2026 4,956 6,156 -1,200 24,500 27,667 88.6%
775 1,574
2027 5,254 6,468 -1,214 25,714 28,738 89.5%
833 1,664
2028 5,447 6,778 -1,331 27,044 29,862 90.6%
866 1,759
2029 5,672 7,095 -1,423 28,467 31,006 91.8%
930 1,856
2030 5,933 7,739 -1,806 30,273 32,246 93.9%
1,000 1,935
2031 6,204 8,149 -1,945 32,218 33,536 96.1%
1,073 2,012
2032 6,487 8,580 -2,093 34,311 34,878 98.4%
1,151 2,093
2033 6,783 9,032 -2,249 36,560 36,273 100.8%
1,233 2,176
2034 7,092 9,506 -2,414 38,974 37,724 103.3%
1,320 2,301
2035 7,415 10,004 -2,589 41,563 39,232 105.9%
1,452 2,393
2036 7,752 10,527 -2,775 44,338 40,802 108.7%
1,591 2,489
2037 8,105 11,075 -2,970 47,308 42,434 111.5%
1,740 2,588
2038 8,473 11,651 -3,178 50,486 44,131 114.4%
1,898 2,692
2039 8,858 12,254 -3,396 53,882 45,896 117.4%
2,065 2,846
2040 9,260 12,888 -3,628 57,510 47,732 120.5%
2,243 2,959
2041 9,680 13,552 -3,872 61,382 49,642 123.7%
2,432 3,078
2042 10,119 14,249 -4,130 65,512 51,627 126.9%
2,633 3,201
2043 10,577 14,980 -4,403 69,915 53,692 130.2%
2,846 3,329
2044 11,056 15,747 -4,691 74,606 55,840 133.6%
3,071 3,518
2045 11,499 16,551 -5,052 79,658 58,074 137.2%
3,310 3,659
2046 11,959 17,394 -5,435 85,093 60,397 140.9%
3,563 3,805
2047 12,437 18,278 -5,841 90,934 62,812 144.8%
3,832 3,957
2048 12,934 19,140 -6,206 97,140 65,325 148.7%
4,050 4,115
2049 13,452 19,906 -6,454 103,594 67,938 152.5%
4,212 4,280
2050 13,990 20,702 -6,712 110,306 70,655 156.1%
4,381 4,451

My opinion is that the interest costs are too high, because the Fed has the ability to manipulate them somewhat.  Notice that the revenue amounts are much higher than I had previously projected.  Somehow I am doubtful that Revenue will be 19.8% of GDP in 2048, but that is what I am using.  My previous projection didn't account for enough healthcare spending, which will soar.

The next long-term budget outlook should be out in a couple of months, so I will update this then.

Update: The CBO released an updated 10-year forecast through 2029. I'm still waiting on the updated long term forecast.

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