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If the Fed cannot fight inflation, then the bond markets will predictably expect inflation.

Inflation effectively raises the cost of lending (it erodes the value of repayment in the future).

Rational lenders and bond buyers will price that risk in.

They will raise interest rates.

That will make it vastly more expensive to sustain our deficit, since we pay most of our debts as a country by borrowing more.

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