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Description: America’s national debt has reached a breaking point, and interest rates could cause a spiral that becomes even harder to break from. In other news, internet routers from TP-Link are being accused of giving a backdoor to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). And now, Texas is suing them.

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America’s national debt has reached a breaking point, and interest rates could cause a spiral that becomes even harder to break from.

In other news, internet routers from TP-Link are being accused of giving a backdoor to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). And now, Texas is suing them.

We’ll discuss these topics and others in this episode of Crossroads.

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