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113: NYT Columnist Paul Krugman on The Debt Ceiling

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The Debt Crisis in the United States

Krugman: There are no hints in the markets or anything else that we have any sort of debt crisis. It's not as if the debt is in fact a huge burden, he says. The interest payments actually overstate the true burden because the real value of the debt gets eroded by inflation and also the economy gets bigger.

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