{"id":99090,"date":"2026-08-25T08:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=99090"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T19:35:49","slug":"to-economics-professors-and-students-what-does-this-mean-for-the-future-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/08\/25\/to-economics-professors-and-students-what-does-this-mean-for-the-future-of-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"To Economics professors and students: What does this mean for the future of the United States?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. debt tops a record-shattering $40 trillion. Yes, with a T.<\/strong><\/a> — from npr.org by Scott Horsley<\/p>\n

The federal debt topped $40 trillion Wednesday, a new high-water mark for red ink that shows no sign of receding.<\/p>\n

The news, reported by the Treasury Department in its daily financial update, comes just five months after the\u00a0debt surpassed $39 trillion<\/a>. The government continues to pile up debt at a rapid clip, as spending outstrips revenue by more than $2 trillion a year.<\/p>\n

“Our current fiscal trajectory is plainly unsustainable, and that’s the best-case scenario,” said Margaret Spellings, president of the Bipartisan Policy Center. “Even in the rosiest scenarios, we’re speeding toward a cliff and refusing to turn the wheel.”<\/p>\n

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Gross National Debt Reaches $40 Trillion<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from crfb.org<\/p>\n

And other warnings signs are flashing too, with debt held by the public recently exceeding the size of our economy, the deficit-to-GDP ratio running twice as high as where it should be, and interest costs exceeding our national defense budget.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. debt tops a record-shattering $40 trillion. Yes, with a T. — from npr.org by Scott Horsley The federal debt topped $40 trillion Wednesday, a new high-water mark for red ink that shows no sign of receding. The news, reported by the Treasury Department in its daily financial update, comes just five months after […]<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,86,209,115,498,302,306,71,3,480,66,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-communities-of-practice","category-community-colleges","category-economics","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-society","category-student-related","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99090","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=99090"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99107,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99090\/revisions\/99107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}