{"id":75689,"date":"2020-09-22T00:17:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T04:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=75689"},"modified":"2020-09-21T23:36:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T03:36:51","slug":"heres-why-top-economists-are-not-worried-about-the-national-debt-now-worth-over-26-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2020\/heres-why-top-economists-are-not-worried-about-the-national-debt-now-worth-over-26-trillion.html","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s why top economists are not worried about the national debt, now worth over $26 trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC)  Many arguing against aggressive stimulus spending from the federal government cite one critical reason: the national debt. Now totaling over $26.7 trillion, the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio is one of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/backgrounder\/national-debt-dilemma\" target=\"_blank\">highest in the world.<\/a> Top economics and policymakers, however, are not concerned.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/09\/21\/national-debt-krugman-reich-booth-duflo-oneill-spriggs-moyo-el-erian.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Many arguing against aggressive stimulus spending from the federal government cite one critical reason: the national debt. Now totaling over $26.7 trillion, the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio is one of the highest in the world. Top economics and policymakers, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75690,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75689\/revisions\/75690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}