Add to ORKGRather than growth generating additional tax revenues that would pay for the tax cuts of 2017, as predicted by nonpartisan economists, the US budget deficit rose 17% over fiscal year 2017. According to the author, there are plenty of reasons why the ever-increasing US government debt is a real policy issue that should urgently concern Americans. In this issue of The Takeaway he highlights a couple of them. Robertson argues that the US federal debt threatens national security and is associated with a higher trade deficit. In addition to other possible serious consequences, he points out the significant amount of leverage that China gains by holding so much US debt. The article also includes graphs illustrating how US debt and trade deficits ...
This report discusses the federal debt, which quintupled from FY1980 to FY1995 and went from 26% to...
As America grapples over what to do in order to avoid the perils associated with manifest U.S. econo...
No economic topic has attracted more attention during the 1980s than the size of Federal government ...
As the U.S. economy has mainly recovered from the 2008 Financial Crisis, with unemployment below 5%,...
The rise in the national debt... is entirely a consequence of the federal government’s increase of e...
Concerns about rising budget deficits have been on the political scene for decades. More recently th...
Like many Americans, Uncle Sam has a bad habit of spending more than he earns. The federal governmen...
In the U.S. and in other OECD countries, government debt levels as compared to GDP have soared since...
Today, the United States is faced with a national debt of over $4 trillion that continues to grow in...
The rapidly growing federal government debt has become a concern for policy makers and the public. Y...
The papers argues that the United States is unable to service its public debt without going deeper i...
urrent account deficits of the United States have been the rule for most of the past twenty five yea...
This report explains the different measures of the U.S. government debt, discusses the historical g...
The U.S. is beset by weak economic growth, ballooning debt and stubbornly high unemployment but the ...
Examining the growing federal deficit of the U.S. government is important because it could impact ou...
This report discusses the federal debt, which quintupled from FY1980 to FY1995 and went from 26% to...
As America grapples over what to do in order to avoid the perils associated with manifest U.S. econo...
No economic topic has attracted more attention during the 1980s than the size of Federal government ...
As the U.S. economy has mainly recovered from the 2008 Financial Crisis, with unemployment below 5%,...
The rise in the national debt... is entirely a consequence of the federal government’s increase of e...
Concerns about rising budget deficits have been on the political scene for decades. More recently th...
Like many Americans, Uncle Sam has a bad habit of spending more than he earns. The federal governmen...
In the U.S. and in other OECD countries, government debt levels as compared to GDP have soared since...
Today, the United States is faced with a national debt of over $4 trillion that continues to grow in...
The rapidly growing federal government debt has become a concern for policy makers and the public. Y...
The papers argues that the United States is unable to service its public debt without going deeper i...
urrent account deficits of the United States have been the rule for most of the past twenty five yea...
This report explains the different measures of the U.S. government debt, discusses the historical g...
The U.S. is beset by weak economic growth, ballooning debt and stubbornly high unemployment but the ...
Examining the growing federal deficit of the U.S. government is important because it could impact ou...
This report discusses the federal debt, which quintupled from FY1980 to FY1995 and went from 26% to...
As America grapples over what to do in order to avoid the perils associated with manifest U.S. econo...
No economic topic has attracted more attention during the 1980s than the size of Federal government ...