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Jason Furman on the Threat of Inflation, Prospects for the Economy, and Turmoil in the Banking Sector

Conversations with Bill Kristol

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The Debt and Deficit Debt Crisis

I thought I sort of like the deficit reduction we did under president Clinton and used to write some of the little you know talking points or chapters or whatever saying how great it was then I became unconcerned about the debt. What we care about is not debt but debt surface that debt service was really quite high in the mid to late 80s through the mid 90s. Is there something what what about debt and deficit how much of a risk is that especially in a context of rising interest rates right so yeah I've been on every side of this issue and I'd like to think that reflects the fact that I update my views based on the data  but it's possible that I'm just

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