Why Trump’s Treasury sec would have zero interest in using ‘forever bonds’ to refinance the nation’s staggering debt

Among some of the crazier stuff being discussed at the fringes of the Trump economic team these days is the issuance of “forever bonds” to refinance the nation’s staggering debt — and to do so as part of the current trade negotiations, The Post has learned. Trump’s head of the Council of Economic Advisers, Stephen Miran, has been a devotee of the forever bond as part of a trade pact that brings manufacturing and jobs back to the US. Following last week’s column on calls for Atkins to launch an investigation, a House Select Committee spokesman told The Post it, too, is interested in allegations of shoddy disclosures by Chinese listed companies over their ties to the CCP, and that those concerns are bipartisan.

Author: Charles Gasparino

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