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This table lists the U.S. federal debt as a percentage of gross domestic product, or GDP, each year since World War II. [57] The gross federal debt shown below reached 102.7% of GDP at the end of 2012, the most recent figure available; it was the highest percentage since 1945 and the first yearly percentage figure to go over 100% since then.
Financial repression "played an important role in reducing debt-to-GDP ratios after World War II" by keeping real interest rates for government debt below 1% for two-thirds of the time between 1945 and 1980, the United States was able to "inflate away" the large debt (122% of GDP) left over from the Great Depression and World War II. [2]
The United States public debt as a percentage of GDP reached its highest level during Harry Truman's first presidential term, during and after World War II. Public debt as a percentage of GDP fell rapidly in the post-World War II period and reached a low in 1974 under Richard Nixon.
The U.S. government will pay close to $900 billion this year just in interest payments on the national debt. The national debt is over $34 trillion. It’s time to tell the truth about the U.S ...
Britain and America after World War II: Bilateral Relations and the Beginnings of the Cold War (I.B. Tauris, 2012) The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Volumes 24 (London: Macmillan Press, 1979) International Herald Tribune (28 December 2006). "Britain to make its final payment on World War II loan from U.S." The New York Times
The debt ceiling is an aggregate of gross debt, which includes debt in hands of public and in intragovernment accounts. The debt ceiling does not necessarily reflect the level of actual debt. From March 15 to October 30, 2015 there was a de facto debt limit of $18.153 trillion, [55] due to use of extraordinary measures.
The federal government faces several key policy deadlines in 2025, starting with the debt limit suspension ending in January, which will require Congress and President-elect Trump to raise the ...
Since then, the figure has shot upward: By the end of fiscal year 2011, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects federal debt will reach roughly 70 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) — the highest percentage since shortly after World War II." The sharp rise in debt after 2008 stems largely from lower tax revenues and higher federal ...