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How much national debt is too much?

2024-06-07 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·26m 50s ·by NPR
How much national debt is too much?
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Most economic textbooks will tell you that there can be real dangers in running up a big national debt. A major concern is how the debt you add now could slow down economic growth in the future. Economists have not been able to nail down how much debt a country can safely take on. But they have trie