The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1839 - Household Debt Is Getting Out Of Hand. Here's Why It's At An All-Time High.

Episode Date: September 15, 2026

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then to all outward appearances, we're doing pretty well as a country. So why are so many people complaining about food prices and the cost of living and the difficulty of getting a job? Has everyone gone insane? Have we become a nation of winers unwilling to to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps? Are the numbers cooked? Well, there has to be some explanation, but no one seems interested in providing one. So just give you a sense of how bizarre

this particular dilemma has become. At the moment, as America ranks as the single wealthiest country on the entire planet, one of our most popular homegrown genres on YouTube involves car repose. Yes, car repose. Most of the time in these videos, people don't realize that cars being repossessed

because they fail to make their monthly payments. The tow truck pulls up, grabs the car, and it's gone within about 30 seconds. But every so often, the deadbeats realize what's happening, and they frantically run out into the Walmart parking lot, pants around their ankles, pleading with the guy to give them their car back. In every case, the driver is completely unmoved by their desperate pleas. Watch. Now, you can imagine a couple of reasons why this content is popular. Obviously, it shows people at one of the lowest moments in their life, which is always appealing for a certain segment of the population. It's a self-esteem boost for a decent number of people. But if we're being honest,

part of the appeal is that, you know, for one's deadbeats are actually suffering consequences for their actions. They thought they could simply stop paying their car note, just like they'd probably stop paying rent and child support and everything else. But this one instance, justice arrives in the form of a tow truck driven by a guy with a million YouTube subscribers who simply doesn't care about their excuses. He's looking to make a man. make some content while also getting paid by J.P. Morgan or U.S. Bank for returning the car. Doesn't really care about anything else. In an environment where bad behavior is constantly forgiven, this kind of video, as voyeuristic as it is, can also be refreshing to see for some

people at some level. Also, unlike cops, which goes out of its way to find white meth heads to mock, there's clearly no hesitation here to broadcast real-life footage, regardless of the racial demographics that may be involved in these repos. It's all the same. There's no, there's no getting around the fact that in a prosperous country, you wouldn't expect car repose to be a particularly popular or prevalent genre. I mean, it's his idiocracy level content, the kind of video that should be leading the charts in Pakistan or Sudan, not the United States. And there are many more examples, some of which will go through in a second. In particular, there's the massive popularity of videos by Dave Ramsey, Caleb Hammer, and others who routinely interview complete

morons who have racked up tens of thousands of dollars in debt. Here's one of them to give you an idea. My credit card, I maxed out to $4,000. What do you mean you max it out? Max it out or maxed it out? So my max, I got confused with the credit debt and the credit limit. So my parents got me a credit card and I ended up getting a maxed. credit limit of $8,000.

So I could spend up to $8,000. That's what that means, right? So I would use it and I would take my boyfriend. We would just started dating. We would go out. It's $12,500. On it now? When I looked at it last, yeah.

Me and my boyfriend, me and my friends, we would go out and I'm like, oh, I'll pay for everybody. I got it. I'll spend the money. Don't worry about it. It's just a credit card. So I would pay and pay and pay and pay. and then I called my mom one day, and I wanted her to be proud of me.

So it was just like, hey, I've got $4,000 credit on my credit card. And she's like, credit limit or credit debt. I was like, what's debt? And she's like, oh, that's bad. I'm like, oh, really? Okay. So it's $4,000 debt then? She's like, that's bad.

Why did you do that? I'm like, I thought that was good. And she's like, no, your credit limit at the time, it was $8,000. So I was like, okay, well, the credit limits $8,000. That's good, right? And she's like, yes, but you were $4,000 in debt. So I started paying it off maybe like for a month. And then my mom and dad, they were like last year.

Okay, and then what? And then they were like, screw it. You're not going to pay this off in time. Give it to me. So my parents took it and they're still currently paying it off right now. Now, I have to be honest, I always assume that credit card companies had to work a little harder than this. I thought they needed to use a variety of psychological tricks to convince women to spend money they didn't have. Like reward points that you can only spend on an overpriced

travel portal or promotional APRs that leave you with a massive interest bomb at the end, or the Super Bowl ads with Samuel Jackson that convince you it's cool to have a credit card or something. But actually, the credit card companies didn't need to do any of that. They're dealing with people who don't even understand what debt means. Think about that. They're clueless about the concept of owing money to someone else. So really, all the credit card companies had to do was give women like this a credit limit of $8,000, and some of them would apparently assume that they're basically getting a statement credit or a voucher worth $8,000.

It's free money. She actually called her mother to brag about her credit limit without understanding that she was talking about her debt. Now, it's an important reminder that no matter how many dumb people you've encountered in your life, you've probably never spent any significant amount of time interacting with, like, the dumbest sorts of people. Truly, there is no bottom. I mean, there are people walking among us who are willing to admit on camera that they do not understand the concept of credit or debt. And until very recently, we've been importing millions more people every year, many of whom

can't speak English, who are even less informed than this. And these people are getting access to credit. They're spending it without even realizing what they're doing. And as a direct result, the prices for everything you buy are going up. Now, this is an economic concept that needs some explanation because no one ever talks about it. When everybody, even complete morons who can barely dress themselves, is given access to thousands of dollars in credit, then markets immediately become very distorted. No one asks themselves, can actually afford this. Instead, they think in terms of monthly payments. Or as you just saw in that video, they don't think at all. They simply swipe the card and then call their mother to brag. Now, when this view becomes mainstream,

and it has, then demand goes up while supply does not change. And as we know from the principle of supply and demand, the result is that prices increase. Now, we see this in a variety of industries from colleges to cars. The moment the federal government made it easy to obtain student loans, tuition skyrocketed. And by the same token, as banks have increased the mass maximum duration of auto loans up to 96 months has become common. The price of cars has also increased. And no, I'm not making that up. Dealerships are now offering 96-month auto loans, which is another way of saying eight-year loans. But they don't want to say eight years because, you know, I guess that sounds too long to most people. I mean, I think 96 months sounds longer

than eight years, but maybe I'm in the minority. And not only that, dealerships are bragging about these loans on social media. Here's one example from a dealership in Houston. This is uncovered by a YouTube channel run by Marissa Van. Watch. It gets worse. This next clip, when I came across it, I almost thought it wasn't real, but unfortunately, it is real. This is a real dealership. And they are absolutely taking advantage of people every day.

What's going on, folks? Intrapo got me rolling. Today I got the home girl, Ney, approved on this 22 Dodge Challenger. Nay, how was your experience here today? It was lovely, Chris got it done. How much did you put down? 4K. 4K down.

How much is you paid it? It's cool. We got it. She's good. Bring the market for a vehicle. Had me on him up and we didn't get you up. Kamens might be high, but she'll get that shit done. It might be a little bit, a little bit, but hey, they're 2023. So once you do the math on this, $820 times 96 months, plus the 4K she put down is $82,720.

The 2022 MSRP for the Dodge Challenger goes from about $30,000. from the basic trim level to about $90,000 for the top level. The one in the video looks like a pretty basic model, so I'm going to assume it's one of the ones that is under $40,000. So she is going to be paying, again, almost double the price for the car because of interest. Now, realistically, there's no way she's going to hold on to this vehicle for 96 months. Even if she wanted to, it's not going to happen. This car is going to get repoed,

and she is going to appear in a YouTube video in a few months, chasing after the tow truck. And when that happens, her equity in the vehicle, including her $4,000 down payment, and any payments she's made up until that point is almost certainly wasted. And that's because when your car gets repoed and sold at an auction, it's usually sold on the cheap so that the bank can recover the money they lent you with a lot of fees tacked on. Her equity in the vehicle, assuming she has any by that point, is going to get wiped out. And this scenario plays out every day, thousands of times. That's not an exaggeration. And by one estimate in 2025, more than 3 million vehicles were repossessed.

That comes out to more than 8,000 vehicles a day. And those numbers, by the way, are similar to what we saw following the recession in 2009. Now, you've probably seen people like this buying a car the last time you were in a dealership. Just kind of by getting a sense of their vibe, you can tell that they're not going to be able to afford the monthly payments. The car they buy is going to go right back to the dealership. It's just a matter of time. But you can't simply ignore these people because they're indirectly making your own vehicle much more expensive in the process. The fact that you've saved up enough cash for a significant down payment and the fact that you've secured a reasonable interest rate with payments you can afford doesn't really matter.

You're competing with people who have access to very large amounts of money that they have not earned in the form of credit. So if you want the car, whether you've saved for it or not, you're going to pay a lot more money. is one of the reasons that car MSRPs are now so high. It's just the past decade. The typical MSRP for a new vehicle is increased by roughly 46%. The average MSRP is now over $50,000 compared with around $33,000 10 years ago. It's impossible today to find a new vehicle with a starting MSRP below $20,000. And after all, you know, if you're a car manufacturer, why bother making a budget vehicle?

everybody's walking into the dealership with unlimited credit basically, so you might as well take advantage. And they do. But before we talk any more about humiliating clips like these and what they reveal, we have to be honest about the broader economic numbers that we do have, the ones that tell a much more positive story about the economy. Now, it's not because the numbers are necessarily accurate or illuminating, but because we need to establish some kind of baseline. So let's do that. Now, it's true that the total debt currently held by U.S. households as of this year is more than $18.8 trillion. And in raw dollar terms, without adjusting for inflation, wage growth, population size or anything else, that's more debt than we've ever had at any point in this country's history by a huge margin. Meanwhile, credit card debt also reached

an all-time high of around $1.28 trillion in the last quarter of 2025. The debt then declined slightly the next quarter to $1.25 trillion, as many people paid off their Christmas shopping bill. but still over a trillion dollars. These are staggering numbers, truly. But in context, you can argue they're not as bad as they've seen. If you go back to the early 2000s, household debt was around 70% of the American GDP. Towards the end of 2007, just before the financial crisis, household debt was approaching 100% of GDP. By contrast right now, household debt is about 68% of GDP, which is still a lot.

So as a percentage of the total U.S. gross domestic product, we're not in debt as much as we used to be, although we are still much more in debt than we should be. It'd be much worse if we were racking up bigger debt with a statement, with a stagnant economy on top of that. So it's a good sign. Although, of course, GDP is not necessarily the most important metric either. If Amazon or Microsoft have a very good quarter, the GDP will go up. That doesn't necessarily mean that Americans will get wealthier. or have more money to pay their debts. So there's another metric that gets used, which is called the household debt service ratio. And this looks at total household debt payments, including mortgage payments, car loans, credit card debts, and measures them as a percentage of your total after-tax personal income,

meaning money you can actually spend freely. And this ratio is much more important. And as you could see, it was much higher 20 years ago than it is today. It peaked around 16% in 2008, and now it's down to around 11%. And if you zoom out from 1980 to 2004, the average was roughly 11% as well. So we're spending less on debt payments than we were during the financial crisis, and we're spending about as much as we've been spending since 1980. Based on those numbers, there's no obvious crisis involving household debt. We're not suddenly borrowing a lot more money to pay for cars.

or houses that we can't afford, and we're not drowning in credit card debt, at least not to an unprecedented degree. But these figures don't account for every kind of debt. In particular, they ignore rent payments, which are obviously a very significant household obligation, although it's technically classified as an ongoing obligation, not a debt. For a while, the figure also effectively excluded some forms of student loan debt, although that has changed recently. And here's the interesting thing about student loan debt, it's ballooning out of control right now, particularly among women. It's yet another disastrous consequence of the feminist movement. Because women have been told to attend college at any cost, including art colleges and beauty colleges that are basically

scams, tens of millions of women are now graduating with useless degrees and a mountain of debt. And on top of that, they've driven up the cost of tuition for everybody else, which was already extremely high because of federally backed student loans. So as you can see, more than 60% of student loan debt belongs to women at the moment. And the average student debt for women in this country now exceeds $30,000, with black women leading the pack at $40,000. Meanwhile, the median female graduate earns around $66,000 a year after graduation, meaning half of female graduates make less than that.

And here's the kicker. The average student debt repayment among women every month is just, $307. So they'll be in debt for at least a decade, assuming they make every payment on time, which is obviously a pretty big and not very safe assumption. Pew recently found that 37% of female borrowers reported defaulting on their loans compared to just 30% of male borrowers. So the best case scenario for these women is that they'll be in debt for a decade. That's the best case. More realistic scenario is that they're never going to pay it off. And instead, they're going to demand that you pay the bill.

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she still owes some $27,000. Women still face barriers. to paying off their loans due to the gender wage gap, a lack of generational wealth and gender norms placed on women. Black women are particularly affected by student loan debt. If you're coming from a space where you have fewer resources available, that means that you're going to take longer to pay your loans off. So there's the completely fake gender pay gap making an appearance, along with the typical language that absolves women,

especially black women, of all personal responsibility. What nobody wants to say is that if you're a woman who took out 29,000, to go to the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, you're an idiot who really doesn't deserve our pity. The typical starting salary for a studio art graduate of this school is $35,000, which is right in line with what Applebee's will pay you to serve reheated food from the back of a Cisco truck. It's much less than a decent bartender takes home. And the job at Applebee's or the bar doesn't require a four-year degree that costs tens of thousands of dollars in tuition, not counting housing costs. The problem here is not that women are discriminated against. It's actually the opposite. They're getting hired at rates that are clearly unjustifiable. This is an article from CNBC this week. I saw this floating around on social media and couldn't even believe it was real at first, but indeed it is legitimate.

it says, quote, women accounted for almost all of job gains in August. Women accounted for 158,000 or around 98% of the 162,000 jobs added in the month, according to a CNBC analysis of data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Men represented the remaining 4,000 net positions added, meaning the contribution to overall payroll growth was nearly 40 times smaller. With Friday's report, the gap between the number of jobs held by women compared with men climbed to levels never before seen, according to Laura Ulrich, Director of Economic Research at the Indeed Hiring Lab, where in the midst of a shift, it's changing right before our eyes. These are truly astonishing numbers,

which validate everything we've said in the past about the feminization of the workforce. This is cataclysmic, deserves itself a longer, discussion, which I think we'll do soon. But the point is, you're not imagining it. White male workers are being pushed out, being discriminated against at a level that has never been seen before in favor of women who have flooded into the job market, who make up 100% of the net growth in the last month. And guess where these women are working? Do you think they're getting hired by SpaceX or something like that to design new rockets that will add trillions of in value to the economy? No, they're getting fake jobs, many of them, particularly jobs in the

local government and education sector, which means they're drawing taxpayer money, your money, to indoctrinate children. Women take more than 75% of those jobs. They're also dominating the health care field, taking more than 80% of the jobs there, mostly in roles like medical support. Quote, compared with 12 months ago, the BLS found that the level of employed women has grown by more than 870,000 in a seasonally adjusted basis, the male gender has lost nearly 1.5 million employed workers over the same time frame. Part of the recent outperformance among women could stem from what sectors are driving labor force expansion. Healthcare considered the engine of labor market growth for more than a year, continued adding positions

in August. Upwards of four out of every five workers in the industry are women. The local government education sector roared back to life in August, accounting for 42,000 jobs. Women hold close to three-quarters positions related to education, training, and libraries. Now, it's impossible to overstate the significance of these numbers. We have become a country where instead of aspiring to race families, women aspire to fake jobs that don't meaningfully contribute to a society or to the economy or anything else. Is there anyone alive who's looked at the state or of their local government or schools and decided that the solution is to artificially inflate the number of women who are hired even more? Is there anyone who believes

that it's more fulfilling for a woman to take one of these jobs instead of raising a family or more useful to society and to the fate of civilization? And you might ask, what exactly are women doing with this money if they're not raising kids? Well, here's a window into what that world looks like, But fair warning, it's pretty grim stuff. Watch. Why are you so much credit card debt? I get a lot of tattoos. And I've spent a lot of money on these tattoos.

I've put about $10,000 on tattoos in the past year. In the past year? Yeah. Why? $10,000 in the last year on tattoos. I just kept getting them. No shit. Why?

Because they look cool. None of them even have color. This one has some color. It was a little blue. Just a little bit. You have a salt shaker, okay? It's one of my favorites. Now, the easy access to credit and student loans,

along with meaningless employment in the form of fake government jobs, has led us directly to this point. 30 years ago, people like this weren't able to use Klarna or a firm or PayPal's Buy Now Pay Later system. They couldn't obtain thousands of dollars in easy credit from 20 different credit card companies.

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that are designed to trap their customers in debt, which they can't possibly escape from. This is a quote from a lawsuit that was just filed against Robin Hood in Georgia. This is from a few months ago. And here's the key quote. It says, Plaintiff had a brokerage account. with Robin Hood derivatives LLC and lost approximately $400,000, including fees and commissions, wagering on Robin Hood's prediction markets hub in 2025 and 26, including on sports event contracts. Robin Hood enables customers to place gaming wagers against margin on their securities portfolios,

exposing customers to the loss of their security portfolio through unregulated and potentially compulsive gaming activities. Robin Hood insufficiently warns consumers that speculative trading against margin may expose core investment holdings and long-term stock portfolios to substantial and accelerated losses and even significant debt. In its fiscal year ending December 31st, 2025, Robin Hood collected $302 million in other transaction-based revenue, a 260% increase from the previous year, which was primarily driven by increased user activities in prediction markets and instant withdrawals. So in other words, Robin Hood is a brokerage. It's mainly used for buying stocks, but they also

allow you to use your equity to gamble on sports and politics and everything else. And on top of that, if you don't want to liquidate your stocks, they'll loan you money to gamble with your stock portfolio as collateral. So as a hypothetical, let's say you have $20,000 in a brokerage account. Robin Hood might lend you, say, $10,000 to gamble on their prediction markets. And if you lose that 10,000. They have the right to force you to sell your stocks at whatever price they're currently worth to settle the debt. That's how people are losing their life savings. We have gambling apps embedded within brokerages now. Now, to be clear, I'm not actually entirely blaming Robin Hood for this. As far as I could tell, this lawsuit has very little merit. Federal law

Trump's state law and federal law allows these kinds of markets right now, for better words. and it is for worse. What happened here is that this guy made a series of disastrous bets, and now he's trying to claw his money back. But the fact remains that 20 years ago, he would have had to book a plane ticket to Vegas to do anything like this. And now he can do it on his phone, 24-7. And that is a temptation and an ease of access that for many people is proving very difficult to resist. That's one of the reasons we stopped doing gambling ads on this show. It's destroying lives.

I mean, that's just an objective fact. A lot of lives. But we can't talk about debt, whether it's margin debt, or credit card debt, or any other kind of debt, without talking about some of the potential benefits. Obviously, not all personal debt is bad. Not every margin loan ends in catastrophe, although it's generally a very bad idea.

And yes, availability of cheap credit has been excellent for economic growth. Having the world's reserve currency made the U.S. a superpower, allowing us to spend whatever we want without massive inflation. It's radically expanded our soft power. To the extent people use credit to purchase assets that appreciate or allow them to live, that can be a good thing. Mortgage is in particular, obviously a net positive, even if housing prices are way too high now. But the concept itself is a net positive in many different ways. And it's also good that if you ever need to make a large emergency expense, you can do so with a credit card instantly without having to liquidate any of your assets.

And if you're responsible about all these things, then it'll be fine. But the extent to which credit is available today is unprecedented. I mean, this is from a recent article in consumer reports, for example, quote, on a recent weekday, too tired to cook, my wife and I ordered takeout from Chipotle. The food came fast, but the tab will be taking its time. Thanks to a small loan through FinTech Startup Zip, I don't have to pay for the two burritos and sides for the next 42 days. Buy now pay later, lenders generally set a minimum amount you must spend in order to receive financing. To order Chipotle through Zip, for example, I had to spend at least 35 bucks. The company, like most lenders, requires users to pay 25%

up front and then pay down the remaining balance over four equal bi-weekly installments. In the case of Zip, a $1 fee is assessed per installment, meaning my installment worked out to $975 each. At $10, Klarna, at least for now, appears to set the lowest loan threshold. In cleaning up after our Chipotle Feast, my wife and I realized we were out of paper towels, so I signed up for Klarna and within minutes had ordered $10 worth of paper towels from Target on a payment plan. My four installments worked out to about $2.60 each. Now, people are doing this all the time now. I mean, they're addicted to buying an expensive item now, or not so expensive, and paying for it over time,

even when it's a burrito or a bottle of body wash. It works out very well for the lenders since around 35% of customers who use these loans ultimately fall behind on their payments. And when they do that, fees hit, interest comes due. Payments explode. Now, this is totally indefensible for obvious reasons. Nobody should be financing a burrito. It's true that if you're starving, you should, you know, in that case, sure, go into debt for food.

but in America, no one is starving. There are massive programs and billions of dollars of charities, school lunch programs, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, that feed poor people. The vast majority of food stamp recipients are obese. So the people using Klarna to buy stuff like burritos or shampoo are without any doubt being irresponsible. It shouldn't need to be said at any other point in our history.

It wouldn't need to be said, but if you spend any amount of time on social media, you'll find that indeed, people are actually doing this. My friends, times are hard, but times don't have to be too hard when we have our Binapalida app. I used to be so stressed out until I was introduced to these Biden Appellate app. Some of y'all may look at them as debt. Some of y'all may say, oh, if I can't afford it, I'm not fin-a-bye. Baby, me, give me an app and give me some personal power, and I'm going to show you what to do with it.

When I feel like I can't pay my car, if I feel like I can't pay my insurance, if I don't use my credit card for the whole month and I don't know how I'm going to pay back. Even if I need to buy some groceries for my house, I'm going to go to Walmart with my buying-knit-pay-payer card and I'm going to give me a money order. And I feel like I love the buy-night-pay-later-out-alston lawns because you don't have to worry about all the interest you got to pay back back. So if I select to pay this lawn back in six months, I have six months to pay it off. If I pay it off early, I don't have to pay out of the interest. I don't know about child, but I would rather borrow from my app. I would rather pay my life bill,

gas bill, car, no insurance, whatever, and since six payments or three. to be sitting up in here looking crazy without no license, no car drive. Now, if I deciphered that correctly, she's putting everything on buy now, pay later plans from gas to groceries. And this is not an aberration. A subset of the population has become dependent on this kind of spending, which completely removes personal responsibility and planning from the equation. And that's a big problem. You know, for most of its history, the United States was built on notions of personal responsibility. and work ethic and frugality. That's all gone now. And in losing that, we lost a fundamental

feature of American life and American identity. We've also driven up costs for everyone else in ways that aren't even fully apparent right now. And with just a few weeks to go until some very important elections in this country, that's important to keep in mind. The bill for all of this excessive, wasteful spending is eventually going to come due. These people certainly don't think they're going to pay you. Call it whatever you want, democratic socialism, racial equity, whatever. At some point, they're going to demand a bailout at gunpoint. And when that happens, it won't matter what the GDP is or the unemployment rate or anything else. At that point, which is rapidly approaching,

all that will matter is whether we've kept these people, these kinds of people who only know how to consume everything in their site, as far away from power as we possibly can. That'll do the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.

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They're downstairs and they've blocked the doors. I seek forgiveness from Allah, the Almighty. We cannot run and hide. Muhammad is the messenger of God. There is no God but Allah. What do you say? We turn those s-o-bs into a fine red mist. As we move, one man will cover while the other guys go.

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