{"id":7611,"date":"2019-05-19T05:23:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T20:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=7611"},"modified":"2019-05-17T17:24:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T08:24:36","slug":"the-economist-may-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=7611","title":{"rendered":"The Economist (May 18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s net public debt is high, if not yet huge\u201d and unless something changes \u201cpublic debt will rise to 92% of GDP in 2029\u2026 and go on rising for decades.\u201d This may not matter so much. \u201cThough debt has grown as a share of GDP, interest payments are near their historical average\u201d and \u201clower than the nominal growth rate of the economy\u2026. In such circumstances a debt will shrink as a share of GDP over time. If the economy grows faster than interest builds up, the government could run a small deficit forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s net public debt is high, if not yet huge\u201d and unless something changes \u201cpublic debt will rise to 92% of GDP in 2029\u2026 and go on rising for decades.\u201d This may not matter so much. \u201cThough debt has grown as a share of GDP, interest payments are near their historical average\u201d and \u201clower than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[162,13,289,161,8443,54,5984,8],"class_list":["post-7611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-deficit","tag-economy","tag-gdp","tag-government","tag-growth-rate","tag-interest","tag-public-debt","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7614,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions\/7614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}