US Debt-to-GDP of 250% Won’t Push Up Rates: Jackson Hole Paper

FO° Exclusive: Is the US Debt a Big Problem?

[Though this video is not recent, the authors’ discussion remains relevant today.] Fair Observer Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh and retired CIA Officer Glenn Carle debate whether the US federal debt is truly an economic threat or an overblown worry. The discussion contrasts conventional alarmist views with a more nuanced economic perspective, touching on deficit projections, the role of the dollar, immigration and long-term growth tre…

US Debt-to-GDP of 250% Won’t Push Up Rates: Jackson Hole Paper

US government debt could reach 250% of gross domestic product without putting upward pressure on interest rates, according to a paper presented at the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole conference.

America’s Debt-Fueled Economy Is Cracking at the Seams - Conservative Angle

Guest Post by Peter Reagan In our modern day and age of economics, the health of the economy is usually measured by consumption. How much is being spent. So, governments and large companies look at measures such as gross domestic product (GDP) as the single most important metric to track. GDP is a measure of how much money is spent – that’s all. It doesn’t track who is spending, or where they got the money. Was it from their paychecks? From savi…

A Fed paper says the US can hit 250% debt-to-GDP without spiking interest rates

A new paper presented at the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole summit says the United States could pile up government debt equal to 250% of its economy without forcing interest rates to rise, so long as the demand for Treasury bonds keeps up. This projection came from Adrien Auclert of Stanford, Hannes Malmberg of the University of Minnesota, Matthew Rognlie of Northwestern, and Ludwig Straub of Harvard, who ran the scenario at the annual gathering…