America’s US$40 trillion debt gamble is getting harder to ignore: economists
- Posted on August 24, 2026
- By South China Morning Post
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America’s US$40 trillion debt gamble is getting harder to ignore: economists
Analysts warn that high spending, rising interest costs and tax cuts could impede Washington’s efforts to ‘grow our way out of’ record-high national debt.