Making Sense of the National Debt

Kaitlyn Frerking and Scott Wolla

Page One Economics Newsletter, 2019

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.

Date: 2019
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