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You May Not Care About the National Debt, but the Debt Cares About You

Aug 21, 2026Right

The national debt just crossed $40 trillion, months ahead of schedule. For many Americans, though, that sentence lands with a thud rather than a jolt. That’s unfortunate because the debt matters far more than people understand, and it’s already helping fuel today’s cost-of-living crisis. Things will only get worse if we ignore the problem. Six...

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The national debt hit yet another record on Wednesday, and political leaders mostly yawned. It wasn’t always this way. Deficits and debt were among the driving issues of the 1992 presidential campaign, nearly upending national politics. Paul Tsongas, the former liberal senator from Massachusetts, ran for the Democratic presidential nomination on a platform…

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