Is 76.5 (the OMB’s projection for public debt as a percentage of GDP in 2019) Large?
Yes. But some historical and international perspective is in order:
Data: OMB Historical Tables; OMB Mid-Session Review
Data: OECD: General Government Net Financial Liabilities
The Point of the Public Plan
The Context of Health Care Reform
Addendum
Is Low Life Expectancy the Fault of Our Health Care System?
What Americans Believe
American Health Care: Best in the World?
NBC-WSJ Poll
Inside the Asylum
More About Bubbles
Why Did Economists Miss the Housing Bubble?
Why Has Monetary Policy Been so Ineffective?
The Geithner Plan
Is 22.2 Large?
Economics: A Theoretical Divide
The New Deal and the Great Depression
Stimulus By the Skin of Our Teeth
The Interregnum
Postmortem
Obama and McCain on Tax Cuts and Health Care
Religion and the New Atheism
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