The US Treasury Department plans to auction off about $1.4 trillion in Treasuries this year to finance all of this spending. That raises an interesting question: Who is going to buy all this paper? https://t.co/BF3i2eCXhG
— Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) February 12, 2018
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