Is the US national debt becoming a crisis?

$39 trillion and counting ...

What Is the Debt Ceiling and Why Does It Matter?

The cap on how much the government can borrow has become a political football, but the consequences are very real.
RealClearMarkets

There Is a Debt Crisis, But It's Unseen and Not Even Discussed

Scholars at Brookings, Cato, Hoover, along with adjacent pundits, have been promising a “crisis” related to the national debt for decades. Despite so many of the wise so routinely and confidently ...
AOL

‘Some form of crisis is almost inevitable’: The $38 trillion national debt will soon be growing faster than the U.S. economy itself, watchdog warns

The United States national debt has reached a precarious milestone, hitting 100% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and placing the nation on a trajectory that could trigger six distinct types of fiscal ...
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If a Debt Crisis Loomed, There Would Be No Federal Borrowing

Conservatives and libertarians talk rhapsodically about markets, while sometimes ignoring the market signals that reject their occasional alarmism. Which is why Montgomery College economics professor ...
Seeking Alpha

A Debt-Driven Credit Crisis May Be On The Horizon

I have not been a debt hawk for most of my 30-year career; however, that has changed recently. Continued high deficit spending by the U.S. government combined with a compacting of U.S. Treasury bond ...
Forbes

Here’s What The Coming $51 Trillion Fiscal Crisis Could Look Like

US Debt Danger as the American economy in crisis or financial trouble due to spending with a fear of ballooning deficit in the United States economic situation as a huge risk to Washington. The ...
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5 Countries With the Lowest National Debt - and 3 Facing Financial Strain

When you think about national debt, the massive numbers thrown around by wealthy nations like the United States and Japan probably come to mind first. Yet while these economic powerhouses struggle ...