The Debt Burden: What You Don't See
A day doesn’t pass without some public discussion of the federal deficit. Advocates of immediate deficit cutting use terms like “explosive” and “unstable” to describe the debt burden, suggesting imminent catastrophe. Others describe this as hysteria, pointing to the current performance of the economy as evidence that nothing serious is wrong. Neither view is quite right.
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