Your political polarization is the reason for our $38 trillion national debt, top economist says: ‘it’s deeply debilitating’ for ‘consensus and stability and productive policy results’

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Your political polarization is the reason for our $38 trillion national debt, top economist says: ‘it’s deeply debilitating’ for ‘consensus and stability and productive policy results’

fortune.com/2025/11/13/38-trillion-national-debt-political-polarization-barry-eichengreen

America’s $38 trillion national debt isn’t really because of bad math or budgeting, top economist Barry Eichengreen says. It isn’t because of interest rates, or an aging population, or even runaway spending, necessarily.
The problem is us. Or more specifically, he told Fortune in an…

This story appeared on fortune.com, 2025-11-13 18:18:01.