US Government Interest Payments to Tax Receipts, Average Interest Rate on the Debt, and Debt-to-GDP Ratio in Q1 2025

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Update on an ugly situation.
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET.
A key issue of the US government fiscal situation: What portion of the tax receipts are eaten up by interest payments on the monstrous and ballooning federal debt. At the peak of the last crisis in the early 1980s, that ratio…

This story appeared on wolfstreet.com, 2025-05-30 04:08:17.
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