Time. Glad to be here. Looking out 30 years, what is the potential when it comes to the debt in the United States . The total amount of debt will continue to grow. A lot of factors involved in that. These are all projections that could be off, but generally because of the demographics of the changes in the way we are an aging population and the fact that we pay a lot in terms of medicare and Social Security benefits will continue to grow. As a consequence, along with just paying the interest on accumulating debt itself means we will be looking at the possibility of the debt to what we call the debt to the level of government growing to what it is today which is at a historic high, around 78 of gdp, well over to 150 over the next 30 or 40 years. There was a report a couple weeks ago that made these projections. 144 of gdp by 2049 or so. Right. That is a starkly very high, of course. We like to think that will not happen. But if it should happen, it is certainly something unprecedented i
This is bill hoagland of the by paulson part of the center to talk to you about the effect of debt on the federal budget in the next many years. Thank you for giving us your time. Glad to be here. Looking out 30 years, what is the potential when it comes to the debt in the United States . The total amount of debt will continue to grow. A lot of factors involved in that. These are all projections that could be off, but generally because of the demographics of the changes in the way we are an aging population and the fact that we pay a lot in terms of medicare and Social Security benefits will continue to grow. As a consequence, along with just paying the interest on accumulating debt itself means we will be looking at the possibility of the debt to what we call the debt to the level of government growing to what it is today which is at a historic high, around 78 of gdp, well over to 150 over the next 30 or 40 years. There was a report a couple weeks ago that made these projections. 144
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