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Making Sense of the National Debt


Abstract: The current total national debt is over $22 trillion—and growing—with no reduction in sight. How much debt is too much? Are there risks from too much debt? This issue of Page One Economics addresses these questions and how government debt differs from household debt.

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Part of Series: Page One Economics Newsletter

Publication Date: 2019-11-01