Off the Charts: A Rich Uncle Is Picking Up the Borrowing Slack

Courtesy NYT > Business  Fri, 09/25/2009 - 17:33

Federal debt is rising faster than it has since World War II, but it isn’t crowding the private sector; it’s supplanting it.


 

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