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I Asked ChatGPT If Billionaires Could Pay Off the US National Debt — and What It’d Mean for the Economy
Yahoo Finance· 2026-01-18 18:11
Could the richest Americans simply write a check to erase the U.S. debt? There are approximately 902 billionaires in the U.S., whose collective net worth is somewhere in the ballpark of $6 trillion, according to Forbes. That’s more money than the average American can even theorize much less imagine spending, but is it enough to pay down the nation’s debt, if such a thing was possible? To play this little thought experiment out, I asked ChatGPT. Are Billionaires Capable of Saving the Day? The AI told me ...