The US debt situation looks ‘unsustainable,’ and corporate defaults are rising, IMF warns

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  • The US’s $33 trillion debt pile is reflecting “unsustainable” fiscal policy, the IMF said.
  • The government has already racked up a $1.5 trillion deficit in the first 11 months of 2023.
  • “Under unchanged policies, debt dynamics in the US are very unfavorable,” the IMF warned.

The US debt situation is looking increasingly precarious, and corporate defaults are up as interest rates stay high, according to the International Monetary Fund.

The US’s fiscal situation is the “most worrying” among all world countries, the IMF’s research director Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said in aย press briefingย on Tuesday.

That’s largely due to the rapid pace of government spending, with the US already having racked up a $1.5 trillion deficit in the first 11 months of the fiscal year, according to a recent Brookings Institution estimate.

And in an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, IMF Fiscal Affairs director Vitor Gaspar also said US deficits are elevated and look to be persistent.

“Under unchanged policies, debt dynamics in the US are very unfavorable,” he said, later adding that the “the perpetuation of current policies entails an unsustainable fiscal path.”

The total federal debtย blew past $33 trillion for the first time everย this year. That amounts to around 121% of 2022’s GDP, but that is projected to blow up in the coming years, with the added risk that theย US could default on its debt in as soon as 20 years, Penn Wharton School researchers warned.

That future spells trouble in the backdrop of rising interest rates, with rates now at their highest level since 2001 as the Fed keeps a hawkish eye on inflation. That could raise the borrowing costs on US debt to a new record by 2025, Goldman Sachs strategists said.

Higher rates are also bound to spark some distress for borrowers, with over $2 trillion of corporate debt set to mature in the US alone in 2024.

By Jennifer Sor

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