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By 2023, it was at the top of its game, touring the U.S. and Mexico for fundraising parties to help pay for its exorbitant expenses.

Of late, investors scrounging for stocks have preferred junk —smaller companies with poor fundamentals and exorbitant valuations—over quality companies with healthy sales and earnings growth, solid balance sheets, and more attractive prices.

People lamenting the exorbitant cost of housing, energy and child care.

And “exorbitant privilege” or “reserve currency status”—that the world wants to hold our money and buy our debt, sending us goods in return—damages the U.S.

The total sum is also not exorbitant, given that all U.S. banks have a total balance sheet equity of over $2 trillion today.