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From the NY Times:

The Doomsday Clock, a metaphorical timepiece meant to depict how close humanity is to destruction, ticked closer than ever to midnight on Tuesday: 85 seconds to the stroke of doom.

It is the grimmest outlook yet on Earth’s future from the clock’s creators, a nonprofit organization and publication called the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that has set the clock each year since 1947.

Tensions between nuclear powers, failures in climate action, disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence and the rise of autocracy are among the reasons that the Bulletin’s experts in global security, climate and nuclear science cited for advancing it four seconds from last year.

Bottomline: We can do better! And understand history to learn from and not repeat, but also to grow from. As businesses, employers, employees, citizens, and people.

On Jan. 27, 2026, the Doomsday Clock was set at 85 seconds to midnight.

While the Congress debates Budget Reconciliation bills (impacting spending levels and taxes/revenue changes), it's important to remember that, unfortunately, the U.S. is in serious financial debt, which is growing everyday.

Currently, the overall U.S. federal debt is approximately $36.2 trillion, which equates to about $106,024 per person living in the U.S. IF the Reconciliation bill passes as written, it is likely that the debt will grown by another $4 trillion or approximately another $12, thousand per person (or nearly $120 thousand overall per person).

The average wage of a U.S. worker is about $65 thousand., and the median household income is only $75 thousand. The math is not good!!

And this is not to say there are not good and not-so-good points about the possible Reconciliation bill BUT rather can we afford it, as well as other ongoing costs driving the federal debt, which impacts all States, territories, local governments, tribes, and every citizen.