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Finformed Daily
Welcome to the first Finformed Daily. From tomorrow it lands at 07:00 every weekday: the one thing that matters, three numbers, one claim checked, and what to watch. Today, the week ahead. The one thing The Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates on Thursday, from 3.
$40.047tn US gross federal debt passed $40 trillion for the first time on 18 August 2026. Source: US Treasury, Debt to the Penny Why it’s news It came early. According to MercoPress, the Congressional Budget Office had projected $39.4 trillion by the end of the 2026 financial
Macro and markets
The 30-second version “The US Treasury doubled its bond buybacks to $4 billion a quarter.” Partly supported What’s true: on 19 August 2026 the Treasury at least doubled the maximum size of some buybacks, from $2 billion to at least $4 billion. What isn’t: that’s per
Macro and markets
Every few weeks a video says the dollar is finished. Here’s what the world’s central banks are actually doing with $13 trillion, and the blind spot in the data.
Claim checks
Big claims about money travel fast. Finformed tests them against the original evidence: a five-minute brief every weekday and a deep dive every Thursday.