04-12-2020 15:11 via sltrib.com

Paul Krugman: U.S. should learn to stop worrying and love debt

Amid all the wild swings in U.S. politics over the past decade, one thing has remained constant: the GOP position on government debt. The party considers high levels of debt an existential threat — if a Democrat is sitting in the White House. If a Republican president presides over big deficits, well, as Donald Trump’s budget director reportedly told supporters last year, “nobody cares.”So it’s a completely safe prediction that once Joe Biden is sworn in, we will on
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