The debt is a big issue. THink of it this way - It's like an investment company buying a company in distress (think L Brands).  They know the risks, liabilities, accounting, pro forma, etc.  They determine how to make the company profitable and pay back it's debtors.  That is what POTUS is doing behind the scenes.  People are working more and paying more in taxes step 1) increase revenue.  At some point, if/when we go through a currency standard change, it will be clean.  Fuck with the economy before an election?  No way.  I also think that we may tell a certain banking family or two, to go pound sand.