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The federal government is taking on record amounts of debt year after year. The U.S. owes lenders more than $36 trillion. That is close to an all-time high when comparing the debt to the country’s ...

Budget hawks have fretted for decades about America’s deficits and debt, repeatedly advising our government to embrace greater fiscal austerity. And for just as long, budget doves — myself included — ...