{"id":240607,"date":"2026-01-19T06:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240607\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T06:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:08:12","slug":"national-debt-is-already-killing-the-american-dream-says-top-economist-and-it-might-push-the-u-s-into-an-outright-depression-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240607\/","title":{"rendered":"National debt is already killing the American Dream, says top economist\u2014and it might push the U.S. into an outright depression &#8211; Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikgFBVV95cUxPeWplaDlfRmlrdVUwSWp1ZDlGYmNDcnphbmVVdkMyekxWSjd6bnktXzVXdGFQX2QwbkNVQ2lMSEQ1RlJFN25SdUE2ZnNjTkJoVHpCRTNPSkRWbkdrTzFDTTBYb1Y0UXktTmxDRENwMEZmUWVxbmhDekNKN3JNb25GLUtMQk93UnRvbldEMEl2UmJRUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National debt is already killing the American Dream, says top economist\u2014and it might push the U.S. into an outright depression<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Fortune<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiRkFVX3lxTE91NzlUMHUyYVhXbndxT1lKazJmVjM4X0ZOUTN3SXZLZXN6X0Vwa2QzX2Y2dm5aTndSQmNKYXlYQlVGN1Z3elE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Economist Kurt Couchman Warns National Debt Threatens American Dream \u2013 Fortune<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;filmogaz.com<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwAFBVV95cUxQaVhaVzFBcFNtYkRqWHlyQjB2SUc3Z1RUUFBQaDZfMnBKMUUwS3JoaXpwQklfMndfc2dFS1RwMXB4d2hoMFZYRTVOcHAxS0xKeG9QN3hoYTREeUl5WGdBalBFZmVfZi1PTll3ajZFTEFDT29RTFQtbTJjMGFwRnZMd3dtUnFaOUdENVFTUlY3LWhpWEJzaGxrcjVLblJsMEN2eGJhbFR5Q2hrX2t4dEhJS3JOTktCZTZNY2VMRjMxazQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Opinion | Forget Venezuela and Greenland \u2013 here is the real trillion-dollar question<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;South China Morning Post<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihAFBVV95cUxQU3hjZHI1TVpOa0tpUUZwSWMzR1U0UTVFTGVUUHpPY0xMUzNXNVR6QzlzNnFxR3dCbW5PZHZJN3hDOGpES3lRYXpOcUFyWVptdHNaZVoyQ2gyOGhxb3VTa2V3Q3BQdHRSOE1sTXFJV1B1OERSaEhWWFd5eHRoVmxXMUY1eFY?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">America\u2019s $38 trillion national debt is so big the nearly $1 trillion interest payment will be larger than Medicare soon<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Fortune<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimgFBVV95cUxNUXN0Z04yMXBWZUVJVC1hWVpaR19fX1BEWjRjX0M0TGFHbnBMU3hiQUZLeW9wWFRwVF90SG1QSmZBN2loYnhNQXlLbklkYk5BZEZXbzZMZXdXandKTXJWQUd6cHNJdFVXMWVMemRyUHBoQ1ItSGcwYnJvWEg3eVBXNjhFWE9La042N3BmeHVHaWxIelhfdzltclpB?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">As U.S. debt soars past $38 trillion, the flood of corporate bonds is a growing threat to the Treasury supply<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Fortune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National debt is already killing the American Dream, says top economist\u2014and it might push the U.S. into an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,5399,65,219,7164,28264,31166,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-240607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-debt","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-government-debt","tag-government-spending","tag-national-debt","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}