{"id":96083,"date":"2025-07-12T08:54:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T12:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=96083"},"modified":"2025-07-12T08:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T12:54:05","slug":"gifted-article-the-chart-that-convinced-me-our-debt-is-a-serious-problem-bernstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/07\/12\/gifted-article-the-chart-that-convinced-me-our-debt-is-a-serious-problem-bernstein\/","title":{"rendered":"[Gifted article] The Chart That Convinced Me Our Debt Is a Serious Problem [Bernstein]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/09\/opinion\/debt-deficit-economy-shock.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VE8.-HCd.g4RhgucaP_0P&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Biden\u2019s Chief Economist: The Chart That Convinced Me Our Debt Is a Serious Problem<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from nytimes.com by Jared Bernstein; <span style=\"color: #800000;\">this is a gifted article. Americans need to read this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Budget hawks have fretted for decades about America\u2019s deficits and debt, repeatedly advising our government to embrace greater fiscal austerity. And for just as long, budget doves \u2014 myself included \u2014 fought this narrative, repeatedly arguing that austerity often does more harm to our economy than good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">No longer. I, like many other longtime doves, am joining the hawks, because our nation\u2019s budget math just got a lot more dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden\u2019s Chief Economist: The Chart That Convinced Me Our Debt Is a Serious Problem\u00a0&#8212; from nytimes.com by Jared Bernstein; this is a gifted article. Americans need to read this. Budget hawks have fretted for decades about America\u2019s deficits and debt, repeatedly advising our government to embrace greater fiscal austerity. And for just as long, budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,285,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-legislation-legislatures","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96084,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96083\/revisions\/96084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}