The misnamed “national debt” is not a threat or a burden on anyone- not the government or taxpayers. Even if the “debt” were hundreds of trillions of dollars, the federal government could continue paying its bills without collecting a penny more in taxes, nor borrowing a ...
The orange zone in the graph above looks at our $20 trillion national debt not in simple dollars, but in terms of affordability. What it measures is the size of the total national debt compared to the size of the economy. Nations enter the danger zone when they pass the 100% red line,...
As the graph shows, the national debt was actually at its lowest point in 50 years compared to the US economy, but Reagan grew the debt much faster than he grew the economy. That’s why the graph shoots up when he takes office. No one had done that since Word War II, and Reagan ...
France’s debt level is high, and it is growing. Under the Maastricht Treaty, the government is obliged to keep its annual budget deficit below 3% of GDP. As the graph below from the OECD shows, the government rarely keeps to that target. ...
Age- specific fertility rates (ASFRs) from the 1993 NDS for the last 20 years by five-year periods are shown in Table 3.4. The ASFRs therefore are progressively truncated with increasing number of years from time of survey. Due to truncation, changes over the past 20 years are observed ...
We need some real politicians leading the world’s major States, not these wet liberals we seem to get for the last 30 years. glen cullen July 15, 2020 Appeasement is alive and well Fred H July 16, 2020 I don’t wish to correct you really – BUT what we have done is kowtow....
And then there are nutrients: Vitamin D, Iodine, magnesium, and sulfate are recent deficiencies that have been made worse in the last fifty years. Over seventy percent of healthcare spending is for chronic disease. I believe science has been manipulated for the purpose of having a large popula...
Even while federal debt was soaring when measured as a percentage of the economy, returning to levels not seen in almost 60 years. Indeed, debt levels have not been this high since the last time Financial Repression had been used.Coincidence?
In March 2020, oil prices fell at the fastest rate in the last 20 years with a monthly drop of nearly $27 billion, reaching the lowest point in the last 19 years (Barbuscia and Rashad 2020). In 2020, Saudi Arabia started also a price war with Russia following the fallout in the OPEC...
The graph below shows the debt-to-GDP ratio for the U.S. from 1966 to the second quarter of 2024. Types of Debt Included in the National Debt There are different types of debt that comprise the national debt. We've highlighted some of them below. ...