The Debt Threshold That Destroyed Every Empire - And The US Just Crossed It | Hoover Institution

Links national-debt dynamics to military power using historical case studies and a current US test.

The national debtdebt servicedefense spendingfiscal sustainabilitygreat power politicsimperial overreachinterest payment burdenNiall Ferguson

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