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Debt crisis

We’ve Run Up the National Debt Before – But It’s Different This Time

The United States was born into debt. The long, expensive Revolutionary War devastated the infant nation’s finances, and forced the United States to grapple with a primary public policy issue: How should debt and taxes be handled in the brave, new world of America? Today, as the United States teeters on the edge of the […]

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Europe’s Continuing Debt Crisis

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The looming debt crisis for states

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