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Re: Houses agrees to raise debt ceiling, plan still sucks.

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Starglider wrote:I don't think any economist or even reasonably intelligent person for that matter is going to claim there is an immutable, context-free threshold for sustainable debt/GDP. As you say there are a whole slew of reasons why the US is in a much worse position now than in 1945 - in terms of debt sustainability the US is in a significantly worse position than even contemporary Japan.
Why is that, and if that's the case, how come markets do not substantially demonstrate that vis-a-vis U.S. v. Japan?
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