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Ken Rogoff on BizNews: America’s looming debt reckoning

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The US federal deficit is running at about 6% of GDP despite solid growth, and interest payments have become the government's second-largest expense in just six years, Kenneth Rogoff writes. Washington keeps borrowing rather than raising taxes or cutting spending. If the Iran war drags on and…

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