The US government has to start paying for things again

Photo caption: People walk near the National Debt Clock. […] Photo credit: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / VIEWpress via Getty Images. Article by Dylan Matthews. Vox – August 16, 2024.

Some of the ways I feel myself aging are obvious. Half of my hairs are white now. I can’t stay up past midnight. I hate loud restaurants and bars. I feel a deep urge to read long biographies of generals. But other signs of aging are subtler. For example: I am now worried about the US budget deficit. Coming of age as an economics reporter in the 2010s, there was no clearer generational divide than the one about government debt. […]

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